A 293
| Known as: | A 293; THT 926 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 293". 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-a293 (accessed 27 Jul. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation) |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 91.23 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka |
| Passage: | Act 1 |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Drama |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
| Meter: | M12 |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | M-β |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 3 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// ka¯ ¯r : a śnä ṣmi lā rtse tsa rna ṣpe sa ṣwä rce tse : ytā rso¯ ¯s̝ sne wa ste¯ ¯[ñ] /// |
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| a2 | /// tra ṅka ṣsa na¯ ¯k kra ñcä śśi wkaṃ • e¯ ¯l e ṣla¯ ¯cä kā swa pa lskā [ñ]ma ska ntra /// |
| a3 | /// pa lkā¯ ¯r u ·ā – || [g]au – – ka pi laṃ || lwe ssa¯ ¯ts e lle¯ ¯s̝ [w]· – ··o /// |
| b1 | /// [¯t] 5 rā m· [y]· – – – – 7 ·y· t·¯ ¯s̝ 8 vai śe ṣi¯ ¯k – nyā /// |
| b2 | /// [ka] ra śā stra 10 7 ā yu rve da 10 8 to sa mśā stra ntu sa¯ ¯s o kta pu klyi /// |
| b3 | /// [s]l· ta¯ ¯s̝ klyo ma ntā pme tra kyā pkā swo ne yntu kuya lte ku sne ca ṣsa rva [p]ā ·ā /// |
Transcription
| 1x | a1n1 11σ /// kär : |
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| 1x | aśnäṣ milārtse ; tsarnäṣ pesäṣ ; wärcetse : |
| 1x | ytārsoṣ n2 sne-wasteñ 0σ ; /// 7σ |
| a2 | /// träṅkäṣ sanäk krañcäśśi wkäṃ • el eṣlac kāswa pälskāñ mäskanträ /// |
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| a3 | /// pälkār u·ā – ॥ gau(tama)kapilaṃ ॥ |
| 1a | lwess ats ell eṣ ; w· – ··o ; /// 7σ |
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| b1 | /// t 5 rām(ā)y(aṃ) – – – – 7 (j)y(o)t(i)ṣ 8 vaiśeṣik (9) nyā(ya) /// |
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| b2 | /// karaśāsträ 10-7 āyurveda 10-8 tosäm śāsträntu säs okta puklyi /// |
| b3 | /// sl· täṣ klyomäntāp meträkyāp kāswoneyntu kuyalte kus ne caṣ sarvapā·ā /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... injured in their eyes, lacking in hands and feet, itinerant, without home.... |
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| a2 | ... says: That is the way of the virtuous. They are well disposed (?) towards giving gifts... |
| a3 | ... saw... In the gautamakapil*-tune: ... gives gift to an animal... |
| b1 | The Rāmāyana 7 Astronomy 8 Vaiśeṣika-philosophy 9 Logic... |
| b2 | ... architecture 17 āyurveda 18 These Śāstras he (studied) at (only) eight years old... |
| b3 | ... virtues of the noble Maitreya, because who... the sarvapāṣāṇḍik-sacrifice |
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). | |
| Fragment of a manuscript which includes A 251 - A 294 (cf. Geng et al. 2004a: 64-65). |
Philological commentary
| This fragment contains part of the first act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; parallel texts are YQ I.1: end of verso + YQ I.2 (b3 here = YQ I.2: b8). An Uy. parallel text is MaitrHami 1, 7b20-9a22. See also Pinault 1999: 193-194. | |
| n1 | Reading of -ñ in sne-wasteñsuggested by Georges-Jean Pinault (March 3, 2022) and in line with restoration by Sieg and Siegling 1921: 154. |
| n2 | For the semantics of ytāesoṣ, cf. Sanskrit daridra- "roving, strolling; poor". |
Parallel texts
| YQ I.1; YQ I.2; MaitrHami 1, 7-9 |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 154; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 154
Translations
Kölver 1965: a2 (94); Pinault 2003: b1 (64-67), b2 (64-67), b3 (64-67); Sieg and Siegling 1983: a1 (251); Thomas 1952: a2 (54); Thomas 1972: a1 (442), a1 (459); Thomas 1973a: a1 (163)
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.
Kölver, Bernhard. 1965. “Der Gebrauch der sekundären Kasus 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.
Pinault, Georges-Jean. 2003. “Contacts linguistiques en Asie Centrale à la lumière des textes tokhariens.” In Indien und Zentralasien, Sprach- und Kulturkontakt, Vorträge des Göttinger Symposions vom 7. bis 10. Mai 2001, edited by Sven Bretfeld and Jens Wilkens, 45–83. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz.
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Thomas, Werner. 1972. “Zweigliedrige Wortverbindungen im Tocharischen.” Orbis 21: 429–70.
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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.
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