CEToM | A 260

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A 260

Known as:A 260; THT 893
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 260". 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-a260&outputformat=print (accessed 13 Oct. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation)

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 99.3, T III Š 97.11
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:late

Text contents

Title of the work:Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka
Passage:Act 16
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Drama
Verse/Prose:prose; verse
Meter:4343 (4x)

Object

Manuscript:M-β
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:8

Transliteration

a1/// tā śś[eṃ] [syo] – – – – – – ptā ñka tka ṣyā ppā ccra¯ ¯cä traka¯ ¯s̝ pa ṣta mpa – – pu ro
a2/// ta¯ ¯r ā kṣi ṣma rwyā [k]ṣ· [p]y· ¯ – • || ta mka klyu ṣu ra¯ ¯s̝ bra hmā yu pu ro hi¯ ¯t [pa] r·¯ ¯ṅk ka rṣto
a3/// śśi ñka¯ ¯tta kse p· ki – mñe wa ste pa rma ṅkse : cū lkā lṣi näṃ yo ke yo pā – – – ·m·
a4/// pukaṃ mā – sa¯ ¯m kā ruṃ c· kuya lmā e śe ya tā raṃ 1 || ta¯ ¯m ka klyu ṣu ra¯ ¯s̝ ptā ñka tka – pra¯ ¯s̝t
a5/// ·e nä¯ ¯s̝ p[t]· – – – – ptā ñkte pā ca rwa rpi śke yaṃ ytsi • śma¯ ¯s̝ klyo s̝a ṣñi ma rka mpa
a6/// ro hi t· sa śśä¯ ¯l wa rpi śke yaṃ śa lpa ta¯ ¯r || tma¯ ¯s̝ sa m[ñä] – –
a7/// ṣyā¯ ¯p peṃ wa wi nṣu ra¯ ¯s̝ ā ñcā lyi tsa ra nyo ptā ñ – [t]· – – –
a8///
b1///
b2/// [¯r] || wa ta ñ· naṃ || ka· s· ra¯ ¯s̝ kl· [p]p[ä]¯ ¯ñä – s·· w· w· – – –
b3/// tku ra¯ ¯s̝ wa¯ ¯rs pa ltska¯ ¯s̝ : wsā yo¯ ¯k ya tsyo trai vi dye ñpu¯ ¯k – –
b4/// ·ñ· ñ· tā – – – – – rko ra¯ ¯s̝ ptā ñkte ma rka mpa laṃ wso ko ne ka lpnā ntra e la¯ ¯nt
b5/// tr· ñe myi¯ ¯s spa ktā nä ·u [y]·e¯ ¯ñcä leṃ pa ryāṃ wyā rsa ṅkrā¯ ¯m ypa ntra • ā nā swra sa s·· – ññe¯
b6/// knā nmu ne ā ka lse¯ ¯ñcä – – ske nä¯ ¯s̝ ā lsa ntra • || kā swo ne yaṃ ri twse¯ ¯ñcä ce ma k·· – – –
b7/// pra ṣtaṃ me tra¯ ¯k ptā ñkä tka ṣyā [ps]e su ma ne ño mā o ka ttmāṃ śtwa rwä¯ ¯lts brā mma ñi nä – na rkā¯ ¯s
b8/// ska ta¯ ¯r • – [ta] s̝· – – ma ne – na¯ ¯rk • || ni ṣkra mā ntaṃ || pā ca rṣi ñe mi [ñi] spā rtwṣa¯ ¯nt

Transcription

a1/// tāśśeṃsyo – – – – – – ptāñkät käṣyāp pāccrac träṅkäṣ päṣtam pä(ṣtam) puro°
a2/// tär ākṣiṣ mar wyākṣ(e)p – • ॥ täm kaklyuṣuräṣ brahmāyu purohit pär(ma)ṅk kärṣto
a3
1a /// śśi ñkät ; nātäk se ; p(u)ki(s) mñe waste ; pärmaṅk se :
1bcū-lkālṣinäṃ ; yokeyo ; – – – ; ·m· a4
1c14σ ///
1dpukaṃ säm ; kāruṃ ; kuyal eśe ; yatār-äṃ 1 ॥
*täm kaklyuṣuräṣ ptāñkät praṣt
a5/// (k)enäṣ pt· – – – – ptāñkte pācar warpiśkeyaṃ ytsiśmäṣ klyoṣäṣ ñi märkampa
a6/// (pu)rohit(ā)saśśäl warpiśkeyaṃ śalpatärtmäṣ säm ñä – –
a7/// (kä)ṣyāp peṃ wawinṣuräṣ āñcālyi tsaränyo ptāñ(kä)t· – – –
a8///
b1///
b2/// rwatañ(i)naṃ
1akä(r)s(o)räṣ kl(o)p ; päñs·· ; w·w· – – – b3
1b /// tkuräṣ ; wars pältskäṣ :
1cwsā yok yatsyo ; traividyeñ ; puk – – b4
1d14σ
*/// ·ñ·ñ· ··· – – – – (tä)rkoräṣ ptāñkte märkampalaṃ wsokone kälpnānträ elant
b5/// tr(i) ñemyis spaktānä(nt)u y(p)eñc leṃ paryāṃ wyār saṅkrām ypanträānās wrasas··ññe°
b6n1 /// knānmune ākälseñc (omä)skenäṣ ālsanträ • ॥ kāswoneyaṃ ritwseñc cemäk·· – – –
b7/// praṣtaṃ metrak ptāñkät käṣyāp se sumane ñomā okät-tmāṃ śtwar-wälts brāmmañinä(s) (ma)narkās
b8/// (mä)skatär • – täṣ·(su)mane (ma)nark • ॥ niṣkramāntaṃpācarṣi ñemi ñi spārtwṣant

Translation

a1He says to the father of Buddha the teacher:
a1+Stop! Stop! ...
a2... he proclaims: "Don't (make?) an obstruction!"
a2+Having heard this, Brahmāyu the Purohita, his hope cut off...
a3... god of... lord son, expectation, refuge and hope of all, son!
a3+... with a longing to see you ...
a4is your compassion not same to all? ... Why do you not care about him?
a4+Having heard that, the Buddha... time...
a5... calls... the father of the buddha to go into the garden... He will come.
a5+He will hear my law...
a6He will come into the garden with the Purohitas...
a6+Then, he...
a7+... having venerated the feet of the teacher, with hands in the añjali-gesture, ... the Buddha...
b2In the watañi-tune:
b2+Knowing pain, five...
b3Having (separated?) impurity from the mind, the ones knowing the three kinds of knowledge, with gold colored skin, all...
b4... they obtain bliss in the law of the Buddha, having let go...
b4+... gifts... they do services of the three jewels...
b5They establish a monastic cell, a circuit, a hall and a monastery.
b5+... miserable beings...
b6they teach wisdom, they keep away from the evil. They attach to good merit ...
b7+At (that) time, the son of Buddha Maitreya the teacher, Sumane by name, ... eighty four thousand brahmin boys... is...
b8In the Niṣkrama-tune: My jewel of a father, turning...

Other

a4[Ist] dein Mitleid nicht gleich gegen jedermann? Warum nimmst du dich seiner nicht an? (Schmidt 1974: 465)
b4Welche da jetzt ... in des Buddha Gesetz Freude finden ... (Schmidt 1974: 196)
b4Welche da jetzt ... in des Buddha Gesetz Freude finden ... (Schmidt 1974: 196)
b4+Welche da jetzt ... (entlassen) habend, in des Buddha Gesetz Freude empfinden, Gaben (ge)ben, sittliche Haltung bewahren, das Wissen l(ernen), der Juwelendreiheit Dienste tun, Höhle, Zelle, Kloster [oder] Aufenthaltsort der Gemeinde bauen, elende Wesen (lieb)en, den Kranken Dienst tun, an ... Gefallen haben, ... Wissen lehren/lernen, vom (Bö)sen fernhalten [und] an die Tugend binden, ebendiese (werden) zu (der Zei)t mit dem Bu(ddha, dem Lehrer), zusammenkommen. (Schmidt 1974: 144-5, 356-9, 404, 461, 501)
b6+... welche da jetzt ... an die Tugenden binden ... (Schmidt 1974: 296)

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.
*Fragment of a manuscript which includes A 251 - A 294 (cf. Geng et al. 2004a: 64-65).

Parallel texts

*A 286 (completing); MaitrHami 16, 12-13; MaitrSiŋgim, Taf. 161, 162, 51

Philological commentary

*This fragment, which complements A 286, contains part of the sixteenth act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka. Uy. parallels are MaitrHami 16, 12a26-13b19, and MaitrSiŋgim, Taf. 161, 162, 51 (Tekin 1980: 139-143). Immediately followed by A 266+A 276. See also Pinault 1999: 202-203.
*Pinault 1994c: 378f.
n1On (omä)skenäṣ ālsanträ • || kāswoneyaṃ ritwseñc cf. THT 1109: a3 (y)olo(m)eṃ (a)l(asträ ka)r(ts)ene rittaṣä(ṃ).

References

Miscellaneous

Online access

IDP: THT 893; TITUS: THT 893

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 135, 150, 135; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 135, p. 150, p. 135.

Translations

Carling 2000: a5 (119), a6 (119); Hackstein 1995: b6 (214); Schmidt 1974: a4 (465), b4 (196), b4 (196), b4 b5 (404), b4 b5 b6 (114f, 296, 356ff, 4), b4 b5 b6 (144-5, 356-9, 404, 461, 501), b5 (23 n.1), b5 (359), b6 (+ b4) (296); Thomas 1954: a5 (727); Thomas 1958: a1 a2 (300); Thomas 1958a: a2 a3 (165); Thomas 1967a: b7 (66); Thomas 1968: a2 a3 (213); Thomas 1972: a3 (469); Thomas 1981: a1 a2 (490); Thomas 1991: a3 (23)

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.

Geng et al. 2004a

Geng, Shimin, Jens Peter Laut, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2004a. “Neue Ergebnisse der Maitrisimit-Forschung (II): Struktur und Inhalt des 26. Kapitels.” Studies on the Inner Asian Languages 19: 29–94 + III. http://hdl.handle.net/11094/16566.

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.

Pinault 1994c

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1994c. “Lumières tokhariennes sur l’indo-européen.” In In honorem Holger Pedersen. Kolloquium der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 26. bis 28. März 1993 in Kopenhagen, edited by Jens Elmegård Rasmussen and Benedicte Nielsen, 365–96. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Pinault 1999

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1999. “Restitution du Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka en tokharien A: Bilan provisoire et recherches complémentaires sur l’acte XXVI.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 8: 189–240.

Schmidt 1974

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

Sieg and Siegling 1921

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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.

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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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