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A 248

Known as:A 248; THT 881
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 248". 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-a248&outputformat=print (accessed 09 Oct. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation)

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 86.2
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:late

Text contents

Title of the work:Buddhastotras: Mātṛceṭa's Varṇāhavarṇa
Text genre:Literary
Meter:554443 (4x)

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– kra¯ ¯nt a ra mpā¯ ¯t lu kśa nu ntsāṃ ka¯ ¯s̝ swā ñce nyo wo rpū¯ ¯s [s]ka mci ka pśa ñi : pū¯ ¯k lkā laṃ wra mnaṃ śpā lme(·) lkā
a2– [na]¯ ¯s̝t pa ra mā nu pa ra mā nu wi nā sa¯ ¯m tñi a ra mpā¯ ¯t : sa ssa ska¯ ¯nt śā waṃ pñiṃ twā
a3– – – – – – – la kṣa ñi tñi o ktu¯ ¯k śkaṃ tsno¯ ¯nt ye twe yntu : po ñcnā rki śo ṣṣi¯ ¯s lkā lu
a4– – – – – – – – – rnāṃ tsu¯ ¯nt wi nā sa mcū mrā¯ ¯cä śpā lyo 20 spaṃ tā lu ne yntu ta mpe ytwä ṣṣa ci
b1– – – – – – – ṣṣ[ā] ñma rka mpa lntu kra¯ ¯nt ño mklyu : pukaṃ sa sa tkā rci ca cpu ño¯ ¯m klyu mna¯ ¯s̝t wi
b2– – – – – ñcä śśi ṣā lypi a rñläṃ kra¯ ¯nt ka ṣṣiṃ : wrā ṣl[u] ne ypaṃ tā¯ ¯s sne lyu tā¯ ¯r
b3– [ky]·¯ ¯nt klyo m[i] nā syo kra¯ ¯nt wra ma [n]yo wa wru¯ ¯nt tñyā mpu¯ ¯k ka pśi ññā¯ ¯ñä : ka¯ ¯nt ta ryā
b4k] yru ñci ma rka mpa lntu yo lyu tā rme ma ṣpa ñi tswā t – ¯s̝t wi nā sa mci ynā¯ ¯ñmä yā mlaṃ [20] 1 ka pśaṃ ra

Transcription

20aa1 ; – krant arämpāt ; lukśanuntsāṃ ; kaṣ swāñcenyo ; worpūs skam ci ; kapśañi :
20bpūk lkālaṃ wramnaṃ ; śpālme(ṃ) lkā a2naṣt ; paramānu ; paramānu ; wināsam tñi ; arämpāt :
20csas sas känt śāwaṃ ; pñiṃtwāa3(śśi) (okoyäṣ) ; (taryāk-we-pi) ; lakṣañi tñi ; oktuk śkaṃ tsnont ; yetweyntu :
20dpoñcn ārkiśoṣṣis ; lkālu a4 – – – ; – – – – ; – – r nāṃtsunt ; wināsam ; mrāc śpālyo 20
21aspäṃtāluneyntu ; tampeytwäṣṣ aci b1 ; – – – – ; – – – ṣṣāñ ; märkampalntu ; krant ñom-klyu :
21bpukaṃ sasätkār-ci ; cacpu ñom-klyum naṣt ; wib2(nāsam) (cu) ; (puk) (kra)ñcäśśi ; ṣālypi arñläṃ ; krant käṣṣiṃ :
21cwrāṣlune ypaṃtās ; sne lyutār b3ky· nt ; klyomināsyo ; krant wramänyo ; wawrunt tñy āmpuk ; kapśiññāñ :
21dkänt taryāb4k yruñci ; märkampalntuyo ; lyutār memaṣ ; pañitswāt(s) (na)ṣt ; wināsam-ci ; ynāñm yāmläṃ 20-1
22akapśaṃ ra

Translation

a1Your body always envelops your good form by a fathom-wide, glowing ray of light.
a1+You are the best visible (one) among all visible things.
a2Atom by atom, I honor your form.
a2+One by one, (the thirty two major) marks and the eighty [minor] ornaments [Skt. anuvyañjana-] result from (the fruit) of great merits.n1
a3+I honor you, who are the sight (?) of the whole world..., with my the top of my head.
a4+Your faith, power, etc... good laws, fame, spread everywhere.
b1You are someone, whose reputation is proclaimed loudly.
b1+I honor you, of whom one can evoke affection, the good teacher.
b3Both your bodies are cultivated by good things. famous... exercising incomparable practice...
b3+You are glorious beyond measure through your 130 special qualities.
b4I honor you, honorable one. The body...

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 1987:
n1Translation and restoration from Dictionary and Thesaurus of Tocharian A, s.v. tsänā-.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 881; TITUS: THT 881

Miscellaneous

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 123-124; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 123, p. 124

Translations

Hackstein 1995: a1 (296); Thomas 1952: a1 (35), b2 (50), b4 (50); Thomas 1957: a1 (263), a4 b1 (178), b2 b3 (263); Thomas 1958a: b2 b3 (164), b3 b4 (164); Thomas 1967: b2 b3 (269); Thomas 1970b: a1 a2 (285); Thomas 1976a: b2 b3 (77); Thomas 1991: a3 (11)

Bibliography

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.

Schmidt 1987

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

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.

Thomas 1952

Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

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 1967

Thomas, Werner. 1967. “Bemerkungen zum Gebrauch von toch. A yo und B wai.” Central Asiatic Journal 11: 264–74.

Thomas 1970b

Thomas, Werner. 1970b. “Tocharisch B *śuke ‘Glanz’?” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 84: 281–87.

Thomas 1976a

Thomas, Werner. 1976a. “Zu Konjunktion yo und Instrumentalaffix -yo in Tocharisch A.” Indogermanische Forschungen 80: 71–79.

Thomas 1991

Thomas, Werner. 1991. Zwei weitere Maitreya-Fragmente in Tocharisch A. Vol. 1. SbWGF, XXVIII. 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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.

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