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A 247

Known as:	A 247; THT 880
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling; Hannes A. Fellner. "A 247". 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-a247 (accessed 11 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling; Hannes A. Fellner
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 79.25
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Title of the work:	Buddhastotras: Mātṛceṭa's Varṇāhavarṇa
Text genre:	Literary
Meter:	M25
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	4

Images

Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

a1	/// ra¯ ¯m wi nā sa mci sā¯ ¯rthä ā śä ntāṃ sne lyu tā¯ ¯r 10 7 t·· [ky]·¯ ¯k sa vā sa· ñ· ka¯ ¯s̝t –
a2	/// rsnā¯ ¯l wra¯ ¯m a ta ṅka¯ ¯t lkā tkā ru ṇi¯ ¯k : pū¯ ¯k tri pra s̝taṃ twaṃ i me tñi ska¯ ¯m
a3	/// śpa rṣiṃ ṣo kyo ā ṣtraṃ knāṃ mu ne : klyo mi nāṃ ytā rṣiṃ sne wa¯ ¯rs ā ṣtraṃ wraṃ lā le ku
a4	/// sa ntā na¯ ¯s̝ : tma kyo¯ ¯k lu kśa nu¯ ¯nt ṣo kyā ṣtraṃ klyo ma¯ ¯nt wi nā sa mcū ño mka lywā
b1	/// kra tsu ne yo w[a] wru ṣñ· ā ñcä ma pñi ña re pu kwa wī ku na¯ ¯s̝t sne tra ṅklu ne [p]u
b2	/// taṃ ska¯ ¯m tñi sa¯ ¯m pa ltsa¯ ¯k wi nā sa mci ṣo kyo ā ṣtraṃ ṣo kyo li tko¯ ¯nt mnu pa «†[ltsa]»
b3	/// mnā śśi kli sā ṣlu ne sa¯ ¯m wā saṃ ño mā tma kyo¯ ¯k wlo tñi knā nmu ne yi¯ ¯s pka nta
b4	/// nā saṃ pukaṃ mā ta ṅka ṣtā rwi nā sa mci kā su tsa lpo¯ ¯nt ri ṣa kaṃ 10 9 lkā tsi mā siṃ s̝a –

Transcription

17d	a1/// räm ; wināsam-ci ; sārth āśäntāṃ ; sne lyutār 10-7
18a	t(mä)k y(o)k savāsa(ṃ) ; ñ(a)käṣt – a28σ /// (kä)rsnāl wram ; atäṅkät lkāt ; kāruṇik :
18b	pūk tri praṣtäṃtwaṃ ; ime tñi skam a35σ /// ; (putti)śparṣiṃ ; ṣokyo āṣträṃ ; knāṃmune :
18c	klyomināṃ ytārṣiṃ ; sne wars āṣträṃ wraṃ ; lāleku a49σ /// ; santānäṣ :
18d	tmäk yok lukśanunt ; ṣoky= āṣträṃ klyomänt ; wināsam cū ; ñom kälywā b1n1 8σ /// (10-8)
19a	– kratsuneyo ; wawru ṣñ(i) āñcäm«†ä» ; pñi ñare puk ; wawīku naṣt ; sne träṅklune ; pu b22σ
19b	4σ /// taṃ ; skam tñi sam pältsäk ; wināsam-ci ; ṣokyo āṣträṃ ; ṣokyo litkont ; mnu pä b31σ
19c	3σ /// mnāśśi ; klisāṣlune säm ; wāsaṃ ñomā ; tmäkyok wlo tñi ; knānmuneyis ; pkänta b41σ
19d	7σ /// nāsaṃ pukaṃ ; mā täṅkäṣtār ; wināsam-ci ; kāsu tsälpont ; riṣakäṃ 10-9
20a	lkātsi mā siṃṣä –

Translation

a1	... I honor you leading the caravan unsurpassed ...
b1	/// (18) your soul is pervaded by emptiness; you have rejected every merit and sin ...
b3	the somnifacient for the brahmins, named [wrong] imagination, has been cut off ...

Other

b3+	(Abgeschnitten worden) [ist] das Schlafmittel der (Bra)hmanen namens [falsche] Vorstellung. Eben dadurch [ist] von dir zerspalten worden (jegliche) Hinderung des Verstandes. ... in allem [bzw. in allen ... ] wirst du nicht gehemmt. (Schmidt 1974: 210-1)

Commentary

Remarks

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

Parallel texts

	Mātṛceṭa's Varṇāhavarṇa II.

Philological commentary

	For the correspondence with Skt. see Schmidt 1987a:
n1	ñare: The meaning here seems to be 'sin, bad deed' rather than the usual 'hell'. Cf. VAV2.37 prahīṇapuṇyapāpāya "Dem, der Vergehen und Verdienst aufgegeben hat" (Hartmann JU 1987: xx).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 880; TITUS: THT 880

Miscellaneous

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 123; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 123

Translations

Carling 2000: a3 (130); Hackstein 1995: a1 (85f), b4 (296); Knoll 1996: a4 (119); Schmidt 1974: b3 b4 (210f), b3 b4 (210-1); Thomas 1957: b3 (283); Thomas 1958a: a3 (161), a4 (161), b2 (161); Thomas 1967c: b3 (65); Thomas 1972b: a3 (447), a4 (469); Thomas 1997: b1 (87), b4 (96)

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.

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

IDP

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

Knoll 1996

Knoll, Gabriele. 1996. “Die Verwendungsweisen der Adjektive im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Göttingen.

Schmidt 1987a

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1987a. “Zu einer metrischen Übersetzung von Mātṛceṭas Buddhastotra Varṇārhavarṇa in tocharischer Sprache.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 1: 152–68.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

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

Thomas 1957

Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Thomas 1958a

Thomas, Werner. 1958a. “Zum Ausdruck der Komparation beim tocharischen Adjektiv.” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 75: 129–69.

Thomas 1967c

Thomas, Werner. 1967c. “Zu den Ausdrücken mit A ñom, B ñem im Tocharischen.” Indogermanische Forschungen 72: 58–78.

Thomas 1972b

Thomas, Werner. 1972b. “Zweigliedrige Wortverbindungen im Tocharischen.” Orbis 21: 429–70.

Thomas 1997

Thomas, Werner. 1997. Interpretationsprobleme im Tocharischen. Unflektiertes A puk, B po “ganz, all, jeder”. Vol. 3. SbWGF. Stuttgart: Steiner.

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.”