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A 225
| Known as: | A 225; THT 858 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Angelo Mascheroni (translation). "A 225". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?m-a225 (accessed 16 Jun. 2026). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Angelo Mascheroni (translation) |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
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| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
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| Expedition code: | T III Š 94.04 |
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| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TA |
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| Script: | late |
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Text contents |
| Text genre: | Literary |
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Object |
| Manuscript: | MAV-α |
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| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Number of lines: | 7 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | pi ltä¯ ¯k me nā /// |
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| a2 | wä rpa s̝s̝a¯ ¯m : ce[¯] [¯s] /// |
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| a3 | naṃ yä slyi : /// |
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| a4 | ktāṃ cā rka r·· /// |
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| a5 | ka nta[¯] [¯nt] /// |
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| a6 | ṣo me /// |
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| a7 | /// |
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| lf | 100 10 4 |
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| b1 | /// |
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| b2 | pu¯ ¯k [r]· /// |
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| b3 | ma ñi l[e] /// |
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| b4 | rā pru tko¯ – /// |
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| b5 | tmaṃ śkaṃ tā k· /// |
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| b6 | tka¯ ¯m a ñcwā ṣiṃ : /// |
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| b7 | ṣā mnā¯ ¯ñä a śyā /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a2 | ... pour them water. These ... |
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| a3 | ... discord. |
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| a4 | ... they dismissed the service (?)n6 |
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| a5 | ... hundreds ... |
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| a6 | ... some ... |
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| a7 | ... |
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| b1 | ... |
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| b2 | ... all ... |
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| b3 | ... moons/months ... |
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| b4 | ... shut ... |
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| b5 | And there ... may be (?) ... |
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| b6 | ... iron-(?) ... |
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| b7 | ... monks and nuns ... |
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Other
Commentary
Remarks
| * | Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009. |
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| * | Transcription and references have been transferred from the "Text and Reference Database of the Tocharian A Language" (Gerd Carling Lund University) (funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and SCAS). |
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Philological commentary
| n1 | Translation and restoration from Carling and Pinault 2023: 286, s.v. . |
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| n2 | Restoration of (spa)ktāṃ proposed by Sieg and Siegling 1921: 112. |
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| n3 | Alternatively, one could restore (ṣā)mañi le , as in (ṣā)mañi le(ṃ) ´a monk´s cell´. |
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| n4 | Reading prutko already in Sieg and Siegling 1921: 112, as well as in Carling and Pinault 2023: 312, s.v. . A tentative restoration might be prutko(ṣ) , considering the m.pl. forms recurring in the text, the ligature and maybe A 340 a7? |
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| n5 | Tentative restoration: (ṣu)tkäm , ´stake, pin, peg´, see Carling and Pinault 2023: 492 s.v. .. |
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| n6 | A tentative translation of spaktāṃ might be ´religious service´ as in Hackstein et al. 2014: 53-54, where spaktāṃ corresponds to Skt. adhiśīla ´superior morality´; in the same passage, tärkā- ´let go, dismiss´, together with cowai , is translated as ´to steal, to rob´. Otherwise, maybe tärkā- means ´to neglect´, as in the TA expression ārtak tärkā- , TB ārtte tärk- , see TB THT 45 a2 ´I neglected´. |
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References
Online access
IDP: THT 858; TITUS: THT 858
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 112; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 112
Translations
Carling and Pinault 2023: a1 (286)
