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A 234

Known as:A 234; THT 867
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 234". 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-a234 (accessed 16 May 2025).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 93.03
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:late

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Manuscript:MAV-α
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:7

Images

Transliteration

a1/// ku ṣpe nu klo pa ṣi ya ntraṃ ///
a2/// : sne sa ñce ṣa kka¯ ¯ts me tra¯ ¯k ///
a3/// ṣṣiṃ śpā lmeṃ me tra kaṃ : puka¯ ¯s̝ [pu] ///
a4/// : 30 ā śai spa rko sa¯ ¯spa r[ka] ///
a5/// ntā pṣā mne s̝pa rka ///
a6/// r[ta]¯ ¯r ña re yä ///
a7/// ynā ñmu ne pa ///
b1/// ku cca tsaṃ ne ///
b2/// ma ska ta¯ ¯r ///
b3/// rsa¯ ¯m ña re yaṃ cm· ///
b4/// sne nu sa lu śo¯ ¯l śo¯ ¯s̝ saṃ ji [pña] ///
b5/// ṣi n❠¯s pu¯ ¯k lā «yo» sa skoṃ wṣe ///
b6/// tpi ko ri¯ ¯sa kka¯ ¯nt tmāṃ pe ///
b7/// rau ra pña re yaṃ : bha dra k· ///

Transcription

a1/// kuṣ penu klopaṣi yantraṃ ///
a2/// : sne sañce ṣakk ats metrak ///
a3/// (kä)ṣṣiṃ śpālmeṃ metrakäṃ : pukäṣ pu ///
a4/// : 30 āśai spärko sas ṣpärkä ///
a5/// ntāp ṣāmne ṣpärkä ///
a6/// rtär ñareyä ///
a7/// ynāñmune ///
b1/// kucc atsaṃ ne ///
b2/// mäskatär ///
b3/// r säm ñareyaṃ cm· ///
b4/// s ne nu salu śol śoṣ saṃjip ña ///
b5/// (ñapeṃ)ṣinās puklāyo sas koṃ wṣe ///
b6/// t pi koris ṣäk känt tmāṃ pe ///
b7/// raurap ñareyaṃ : bhadrak· ///

Translation

b5throughout a human year, one day and night

Commentary

Remarks

*Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009.
*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).

References

Miscellaneous

Online access

IDP: THT 867; TITUS: THT 867

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 117; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 117

Translations

Carling 2000: b5 (311, 404)

Bibliography

Carling 2000

Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Sieg and Siegling 1921

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.

Sieg and Siegling 1921

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Personal annotated copy of Wilhelm Siegling. Scanned by Douglas Q. Adams with the technical assistance of Michael Tarabulski and Kevin Dobbins. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.

TITUS

Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.