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A 241

Known as:A 241; THT 874
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling; Angelo Mascheroni (translation). "A 241". 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-a241 (accessed 02 Dec. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling; Angelo Mascheroni (translation)

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 67.08
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:late

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Manuscript:MAV-β
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

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Transliteration

a1/// yo wā kma ///
a2/// [lū] ne saṃ kā ta ṅkā ///
a3/// ā rki śo ṣi ta ///
a4/// ·sy· : taṃ ne we [ñ]· ///
a5/// kā swo ne ///
a6/// yma ssu¯ ¯s̝ pu ///

Transcription

a1/// yo wākma ///
a2n1 /// (pälskā)lūne saṃ kātäṅkā(ṣ) ///
a3/// ārkiśoṣi ///
a4/// ·sy· : taṃne weñ· ///
a5n2 /// kāswone ///
a6/// ymassuṣ pu ///

Translation

a1... differences/different ...
a2... a thought arises ...
a3... the world ...
a4... So, ... said ...
a5... good deed(s?) ...
a6... mindful ...

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).

Philological commentary

n1Restoration proposed by Carling and Pinault 2023: 504, s.v. .
n2Given the last akṣara of line a5, one may be tempted to restore kāswone(nt).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 874; TITUS: THT 874

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 120; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 120

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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.