A 27

Known as:	A 27; THT 660
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn; Michaël Peyrot. "A 27". 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-a27 (accessed 08 Jun. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn; Michaël Peyrot
Date of online publication:	2012-10-31
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shorchuk
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 91.07
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Unknown Avadāna
Passage:	Dharmarājika deeds
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Object
Manuscript:	A 1-54
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

Transliteration

lf	2
a2	(– –) ·[ñ]·[¯] [¯s] me¯ ¯m yä¯ ¯rm k· ///
a3	\|\| ta mmaṃ tne klyo snä ṣtra gā ○ ///
a4	hu rro ki ye twe wa mpe ○ ///
a5	swa mpe ye twe sa¯ ¯m : su da rśaṃ ri [y]· ///
a6	·ä [k](·)(·) śyo ki vai ja ya¯ ¯nt : 1 \|\| ///
b1	– n(·) [ka] lpā lu ne yā ma [r]ka mpa ///
b2	to¯ ¯nt ta myo sa¯ ¯m wyā¯ ¯r dha rma rā ///
b3	śśi o ko śa ri rntu : wo ○ ///
b4	ṅkaṃ ba dhe bra¯ ¯m ñka tto ○ ///
b5	[ñ]e mi sa¯ ¯m 1 \|\| ku pre ///

a2	n1 – – ·ñ(i)s mem yärm k· ///
a3	n2 ॥ täm mäṃt ne klyosnäṣträ gā /// (ma)¬
a4	¬hurr oki yetwe wampe /// (ārkiśoṣi)¬
a5	¬s wampe yetwe säm : sudarśaṃ riy(aṃ) ///
a6	(ñ)äk(ta)śy oki vaijayant : 1 ॥ ///
b1	– n· kälpāluneyā märkampa(l) ///
b2	n3 tont tämyo säm wyār dharmarā(jik) ///
b3	n4 śśi oko śarirntu : wo ///
b4	n5 ṅkaṃ badhe bram-ñkätt o(ki) ///
b5	ñemi säm 1 ॥ kupre(ne) ///

a2	... the measure [and] limit of ...
a2+	\|\| Just as ... is heard ...
a3+	... (dia)dem as it were, ornament, decoration ...
a4+	... this one [is] the decoration [and] ornament of the (world).
a5	(In) the city Sudarśana ...
a5+	... like the Vaijayanta [palace] of the ... g(ods).
a6+	... through obtaining of ..., the Law ...
b1+	... the (foundations of the relics) have been put (in the stūpa).
b2	Therefore this monastery (is called) Dharmarājika ...
b2+	... (they obtained) bodies as the fruit of (deeds/merits). ...
b3+	... in (the palace) Badhe l(ike) god Brahman ...
b4+	... this jewel
b5	1 \|\| If ...

a3	Wie man hört [bzw. man hört nämlich [folgendes] ], ... Gā- ... (Schmidt 1974: 220)

*	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.
*	Small fragment of the left side. The string hole space is preserved in lines 3 and 4. Lines a1 and b6 are lost. There are traces of signs in the margin of the recto side.

n1	·ñ(i)s is most likely a gen.sg. (or pl.?).
n2	The phrase mäṃt ne klyoṣtä(r) also attested in the small fragment THT 2166 a 2.
n3	Probably, tont is the fem.nom.pl. PPt of 'to put'. For the name dharmarājika- lit. 'belonging to a king of the Law', see Edgerton 1953: 281a and Bechert and Waldschmidt 1973 II: 530a; actually, it refers to a monument serving for the relics of the Buddha.
n4	One may restore either (pñintwā)śśi oko or (lyalypäntwā)śśi oko.
n5	The most likely restoration is (ṣtā)ṅkaṃ 'in the palace'. The personal name Badhe does not make sense, because there is no Sanskrit form badha-; it may stand for Vadhe from Skt. vadha-, which would be a name by itself or a shorten form of a compound name; cf. Edgerton 1953: 397a. In theory, one may think of Skt. bādha*- 'oppresser' Monier-Williams 1899: 728a, but this noun does not make a proper name.