A 275

Known as:	A 275; THT 908
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 275". 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-a275 (accessed 14 May 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation)
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shorchuk
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 101.07
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka
Passage:	Act 13
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Drama
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Meter:	43434 (4x); 5555 (1x), 444343 (1x), 55 (1x), 4443 (1x)
Object
Manuscript:	M-β
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	8

Transliteration

a1	/// [ta¯] [¯k] o¯ ¯ṅk \|\| me ña me ññaṃ \|\| wi ro ne yi¯ ¯s lyä knāṃ
a2	/// ··w· ntāṃ a ñśä¯ ¯r [ypa] ntāṃ : na ti ta mpe ka rṣnā ntāṃ a ppa rmā
a3	/// : 1 \|\| – [mka] klyu ṣu ra¯ ¯s̝ ā ṣā ni kme tra¯ ¯k ku ro [nt]o ki
a4	/// ṣku pre ā lu pe nu sa smo ko ne ku mnä¯
a5	/// śā¯ ¯t e kro pa twra so mtā¯ ¯s̝ : mā¯ ¯l knā
a6	/// ku mnä¯ ¯s̝ mo ko ne : 1 \|\| ta m[ka] kly· ṣu
a7	/// ··ā sni ṣpa l·· ///
b2	/// la pwra s̝a lyo o ///
b3	/// klo¯ ¯nt nwā ma¯ ¯nt pa lko ra¯ ¯s̝ kā rū ṇy[o]
b4	/// yo : ṣñi a ka ppi ntwaṃ sā sno tkwo ki klo
b5	/// ··ā lo : 1 \|\| tma¯ ¯s̝ sā ra thi pe nu [tra] [ṅk]tsi
b6	/// ka lym· nā ·tsu nwā mño mwra so¯ ¯m \|\| su bhā dre naṃ \|\| [ka]
b7	/// ·tsa ṅkā tsi mā pe [t]ra ṅktsi cä mpa mo na ssa tsya tra klo pa ntyo
b8	/// : 1 \|\| ta mka kly· ṣu ra¯ ¯s̝ bo dhi sa ttu tra ṅka ṣca ni a tste

a1	/// täk oṅk ॥ meñameññaṃ ॥

1a	wironeyis ; lyäk nāṃ a2 12σ
1b	13σ /// ··w·ntāṃ ; añśär ypantāṃ :
1c	nati tampe ; kärṣnāntāṃ ; appärmā a3 8σ
1d	18σ /// : 1 ॥

*	(tä)m kaklyuṣuräṣ āṣānik metrak kuront oki
a4	/// ṣ kupre ālu penu säs mokone kumnä°
a5	/// śāt ekro pat wrasom tāṣ : māl knā
a6	/// kumnäṣ mokone : 1 ॥ täm kakly(u)ṣu¬
a7	¬(räṣ) /// ··ās niṣpal·· ///
b2	/// lap wraṣälyo o ///
b3	/// klont nwāmänt pälkoräṣ kārūṇyo
b4	/// yo : ṣñi akappintwaṃ sāsnotkw oki klo
b5	/// ··ālo : 1 ॥ tmäṣ sārathi penu träṅktsi
b6	/// kälym· nā(ṃ)tsu nwām ñom wrasom ॥ subhādrenaṃ ॥

1a	kä b719σ
1b	5σ /// ·tsäṅkātsi ; mā pe träṅktsi ; cämpamo ; nass ats yaträ ; klopantyo
1c	b810σ
1d	15σ /// : 1 ॥

*	täm kakly(u)ṣuräṣ bodhisattu träṅkäṣ cani ats te

a1	... the man...
a1	In the meñameññ*-tune:
a1+	The thief of youth...
a2	... making stumble, cutting of energy and power, depising...
a3+	Having heard this, the worthy Maitreya... like a decrepit...
a4+	... does this old age also arive for someone else...?
a5+	(No matter whether) a being is rich or poor, stupid or (smart)..., old age comes (for it).
a6+	Having heard that... possession...
a7+	... with head-pain...
b2+	... having seen (him) sick..., with compassion...
b4+	... as if permeated by impurities...
b5+	Then Sārathi, too, ... to speak...
b6	... a "sick" being having become subjected to...
b6	In the subhādreṃ*-tune:
b7	not even able to speak (or to think?), he respires only with difficulty
b8	Having heard that, the Bodhisattva says:
b8	... of that one...?

a4	Ob dieses Alter auch anderen kommt? (Schmidt 1974: 75)

*	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). Lines a8 and b1 are lost.

*	MaitrHami 13, 3

*	This fragment contains part of the thirteenth act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; an Uy. parallel would be MaitrHami 13, 3, which, unfortunately, is missing. See also Pinault 1999: 201.

Knoll 1996: a2 (41), b7 (43, 47); Schmidt 1974: a4 (75); Thomas 1954: b7 (738); Thomas 1967a: b6 (67)