A 275
| Known as: | A 275; THT 908 |
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| 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 19 May 2025). |
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 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// [ta¯] [¯k] o¯ ¯ṅk || me ña me ññaṃ || wi ro ne yi¯ ¯s lyä knāṃ |
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| 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 ॥ |
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| 1a | wironeyis ; lyäk nāṃ a2 12σ |
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| 1b | 13σ /// ··w·ntāṃ ; añśär ypantāṃ : |
| 1c | nati tampe ; kärṣnāntāṃ ; appärmā a3 8σ |
| 1d | 18σ /// : 1 ॥ |
| * | (tä)m kaklyuṣuräṣ āṣānik metrak kuront oki |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Translation
| a1 | ... the man... In the meñameññ*-tune: |
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| 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: |
| b7 | not even able to speak (or to think?), he respires only with difficulty |
| b8 | Having heard that, the Bodhisattva says: ... of that one...? |
Other
| a4 | Ob dieses Alter auch anderen kommt? (Schmidt 1974: 75) |
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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
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, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Knoll, Gabriele. 1996. “Die Verwendungsweisen der Adjektive im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Frankfurt am Main.
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, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
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