A 28
| Known as: | A 28; THT 661 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn; Michaël Peyrot. "A 28". 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-a28 (accessed 14 Jul. 2025). |
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 92.01 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Unknown Avadāna |
| 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 |
Images
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Transliteration
| lf | 10 /// |
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| a3 | (– –) – (–) – m(·) ka (·)[l](·) ○ /// |
| a4 | [p](·) r[a] tta¯ ¯m : ka rṣto ra¯ ¯s̝ ○ (·)[ñ](·) /// |
| a5 | ktu se ñcäṃ • sa mne ṣnā kṣā¯ ¯t kā ṣi ññ[ā] /// |
| a6 | re yaṃ : ṣu ṅka ṣpo ryo tsa kna s̝ta rtsā /// |
| b1 | ña re yntwaṃ : 1 || pa rsko¯ ¯nt a kma lyo śri /// |
| b2 | rsa rwā yo kucā e s̝a kne u pā dhyā ca – /// |
| b3 | ñ·ä¯ ¯s̝ po ṣi ta¯ ¯s̝ we ○ [ñe] /// |
| b4 | (– – – –) [m]·[ā] rṣe ·e ○ /// |
Transcription
| lf | 10 /// |
| a3 | – – – – – m· kä·l· /// |
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| a4 | p(o)rat täm : kärṣtoräṣ (m)ñ(e) /// |
| a5 | n1 k tuseñc-äṃ • säm neṣ nākṣāt kāṣiññā(t) /// (ña)¬ |
| a6 | reyaṃn2 : ṣuṅkäṣ poryo tsäknäṣtär tsā /// |
| b1 | n3 ñareyntwaṃ : 1 ॥ pärskont akmalyo śri /// (ku)¬ |
| b2 | rsärwāyon4n5 kucā-eṣäk-ne upādhyā ca – /// |
| b3 | n6 ñ·äṣ poṣi täṣ weñe(ñc) /// |
| b4 | n7 – – – – m·ārṣe ·e /// |
Translation
| a4 | ... the ax ... that. Having cut off the ho(pe) ... |
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| a5 | ... they kindle him/it. Previously this one blamed [and] scolded (others) ... |
| a5+ | ... in the (hell) ... From the throat by means of fire he burns |
| a6 | [and] (he is stabbed?) ... |
| b1 | ... in the hells. With fearful face NN ... |
| b1+ | ... over [very] many miles, over which the teacher ... th(is) ... |
| b3 | ... from the (body?) this [is] the side/surface, (they) will say ... |
| b4 | ... |
Other
| a5 | Früher tadelte [und] schalt er ... (Schmidt 1974: 172) |
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Commentary
Remarks
| Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009. | |
| 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). | |
| The left part of a leaf with rest of the string hole space covering lines 3 and 4; lines a1-2 and b5-6 are lost. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | ktuseñc-äṃ is rather not a 3.pl. present from the root katw- 'to ridicule', but an s-present from the root 'to kindle'. |
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| n2 | tsā is probably the beginning of a present form of 'to pierce'. The visible remains of the following sign speaks in favor of that. |
| n3 | śri is most likely the beginning of a proper name. |
| n5 | ca is probably caṣ; the last akṣara is a complex ligatura, probably with a vowel u. |
| n6 | Below the ñ of ñäṣ may be another sign, which could be a) c making it a 3.sg. verbal form (lä)ñcäṣ, or b) ñ, in which case we would have (kapśi)ñ(ñ)äṣ 'from the body'. A possible restoration for weñe would be a form of the subjunctive of weñ- or the form has to be separated differently into we ñe(mi?), though the latter is not very likely. |
| n7 | Segmentation uncertain. |
Linguistic commentary
| n4 | The use of the instr. with kursär possibly indicates a huge distance; cf. Carling 2000: 28. |
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References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 21; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 21
Translations
Carling 2000: b2 (336); Kölver 1965: a6 (23); Schmidt 1974: a5 (172)
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Kölver, Bernhard. 1965. “Der Gebrauch der sekundären Kasus im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.
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.
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.
