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A 268

Known as:A 268; THT 901
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 268". 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-a268 (accessed 12 Jun. 2026).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 97.01, T III Š 97.02
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

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/// k· [ta]¯ ¯r a gha – – ṣo lā raṃ ñä kcyā«¯» «¯»«ñ» – – – – m· ye
a2/// ñka tka ṣṣi yso mo – – – – rkā «rme» yä ntu ā ksi¯ – – ¯p • klo
a3/// ·ā rme pa lkā lu ne yaṃ – – – – [¯m] o kta tsi klyo miṃ ytā[¯] [¯r] –
a4/// ·ā syo ka knu wä rka¯ ¯nt – – – s̝ta mne¯ ¯k klyo miṃ yt· – –
a5/// [ka] lyme yā yā mlu ne • ka [l]ym· yā śo lśo lu ne ṣiṃ ku –
a6/// ṣū pa nwo • lau ki kā gra ta – – s·e
b3/// tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ || [g]au t· m· k· p[i] ///
b4/// [ṣ]· tre yä ntu : tma ṣṣu tño [k]i¯ ¯k ñy[ā] kā lṣe¯ ¯s̝ [t]ñ· – –
b5/// yä rṣlu ne yä rsmā rpuka – – – ṣ· tñi : śla ñe mi ntu – –
b6/// ntāṃ p[a] ṣmā ṣā ni¯ ¯k [pā] – – – ·ma¯ ¯s̝ ā ṣā ni¯ ¯k me [t]ra[¯] [¯k] –
b7/// ¯ñä p[p]ā ṣā cpā ṣ[ṣ]· – – – – wñu ra¯ ¯s̝ tma¯ ¯k – – kā tku
b8/// saṃ tā ni«¯» «¯»«s» puka – – – ra¯ ¯s̝ ma rka mpa – – – – spā

Transcription

a1/// (puk) (traidhātuk) (wāsäṃ)k(ā)tär agha(niṣṭh) ṣolāraṃ ñäkcyāñ (wimānäntu) m(e)ye¬
a2¬(ñc) /// ñkät käṣṣi ysomo – – – – r kārmeyäntu āksi – – p • klo
a3/// ·ārme pälkāluneyaṃ – – – – m oktatsi klyomiṃ ytār –
a4/// ·āsyo kaknu wärkänt – – – ṣ tämne-k klyomiṃ yt(ār) – –
a5/// kälymeyā yāmlune • kälym(e)yā śol śoluneṣiṃ ku –
a6/// ṣū pänwo • laukikāgra tä – – s·e
b3/// träṅkäṣ ॥ gaut(a)m(a)k(a)pi(laṃ)
1x/// b410σ /// ṣ(o)t;reyäntu :
Xxtmäṣ ṣu tñ= okik ; ñy ākāl ṣeṣ ; tñ· – – b56σ
Xx4σ /// ; yärṣlune ; yärsmār puka – – ; – ṣ· tñi :
Xxśla ñemintu ; – – b610σ
*/// ntāṃ paṣm āṣānik pā – – – (t)mäṣ āṣānik metrak –
b7/// ñ ppāṣāc pāṣṣ· – – – (we)wñuräṣ tm-äk – – kātku
b8/// saṃtānis puka – – – räṣ märkampa – – – – spā

Translation

a1(the whole three-fold world) moves and the divine palaces shake up to the Aghaniṣṭha
b4... from then on it was my wish just like yours/from that the wish was for me as for you ...

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).
*Fragment of a manuscript which includes A 251 - A 294 (cf. Geng et al. 2004a: 64-5). Lines a7-8 and b1-2 are lost.

Parallel texts

*A 267 (completing); A 305; MaitrHami 16, 1-3, MaitrSiŋgim, Taf. 156

Philological commentary

*This fragment, which can be complemented by A 267 and supplemented with A 305, contains part of the sixteenth act of the Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka. Uy. parallels are MaitrHami 16, 1b-2b17, and (according to Moerloose 1979: 245-249) MaitrSiŋgim, Taf. 156 v.11-33 (Tekin 1980: 130-2) for lines b6-7 (= A 305 a3-7). A 305 a1 and a2 = lines b4 and b5 here respectively. The lacuna in line b6 in A 267 and here may be filled with A 305 a3. A 305 corresponds to MaitrHami 16, 2b2-3b24. See also Pinault 1999: 202-3.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 901; TITUS: THT 901

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 139, 140; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 139, p. 140

Translations

Carling 2000: b1 (333); Knoll 1996: a3 (128); Kölver 1965: a5 (61), b4 (150)