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A 275

Known as:	A 275; THT 908
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "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 10 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 101.07
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
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:	M18; M20_22_10_15
Object
Manuscript:	M-β
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	8

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	/// [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

Transcription

a1	/// täk oṅk ॥ meñameññaṃ ॥

1a	wironeyis ; lyäk nāṃ a212σ
1b	13σ /// ··w·ntāṃ ; añśär ypantāṃ :
1c	nati tampe ; kärṣnāntāṃ ; appärmā a38σ
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

Translation

a4	if this age also comes to others
a5	if this was a rich or a poor being ...
b7	not even able to speak, he respires only with difficulty

Other

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

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. 2004b: 64-65). Lines a8 and b1 are lost.

Parallel texts

	MaitrHami 13, 3

Philological commentary

	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 1999a: 201.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 908; TITUS: THT 908

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 143-144; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 143, p. 144

Translations

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

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.

Geng et al. 2004b

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

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Knoll 1996

Knoll, Gabriele. 1996. “Die Verwendungsweisen der Adjektive im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Pinault 1999a

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1999a. “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 thesis, Universität Göttingen.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921a. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.

Thomas 1954a

Thomas, Werner. 1954a. “Die Infinitive im Tocharischen.” In Asiatica. Festschrift Friedrich Weller. Zum 65. Geburtstag, gewidmet von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern, edited by Johannes Schubert and Ulrich Schneider, 701–64. Leipzig: Harrassowitz.

Thomas 1967c

Thomas, Werner. 1967c. “Zu den Ausdrücken mit A ñom, B ñem im Tocharischen.” Indogermanische Forschungen 72: 58–78.

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.”