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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 12 Oct. 2024).

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

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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 traka ṣca ni a tste

Transcription

a1/// täk oṅkmeñameññaṃ
1awironeyis ; lyäk nāṃ a2 12σ
1b13σ /// ··w·ntāṃ ; añśär ypantāṃ :
1cnati tampe ; kärṣnāntāṃ ; appärmā a3
1d18σ /// : 1 ॥
*(tä)m kaklyuṣuräṣ āṣānik metrak kuront oki
a4/// 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 wrasomsubhādrenaṃ
1a b719σ
1b /// ·tsäṅkātsi ; pe träṅktsi ; cämpamo ; nass ats yaträ ; klopantyo
1cb810σ
1d15σ /// : 1 ॥
*täm kakly(u)ṣuräṣ bodhisattu träṅkäṣ cani ats te

Translation

a1... the man... 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...
b2... with head-pain...
b3+... 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... In the subhādreṃ*-tune:
b7not even able to speak (or to think?), he respires only with difficulty
b8Having heard that, the Bodhisattva says: ... of that one...?

Other

a4Ob 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. 2004a: 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 1999: 201.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 908; TITUS: THT 908

Edition

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

Translations

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

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, Universität Frankfurt am Main.

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

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

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.

Thomas 1954

Thomas, Werner. 1954. “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 1967a

Thomas, Werner. 1967a. “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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.