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A 296

Known as:A 296; THT 929
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 296". 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-a296 (accessed 28 Nov. 2023).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Šorčuq
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 96.01
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

Object

Manuscript:M-γ
Leaf number:100-40
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– – – – s· ñi ra rku¯ ¯s̝ [t]· li¯ ¯s ///
a2– – ca kra va rtti wä¯ ¯l ñä kci ñi l❠¯ñśä : [ka] lkā l[p]i ///
a3ktāṃ ya tsi : kā ma rṣe s̝a¯ ¯m tu [ṣ]i ta [p]kā ka ///
a4lo ytsi pa lko na¯ ¯s̝t cwä¯ ¯s̝ śra lu ne [ṣ]o [kyo] ///
a5a¯ ¯ts cwä¯ ¯s̝ tsro rā ta rmi¯ ¯ñcä klo pyo swi¯ ¯ñcä wa ///
a6ka rso ra¯ ¯s̝ ri nä ṣtā rwa¯ ¯s yā ti śśi [ā] ///
a7rpa raṃ nyo po ñcäṃ ā rki śo ṣi y[ta] s·āṃ o ki yä¯ ¯s̝ || tma¯ ¯s̝ ///
a8rkya¯ ¯nt m· ///
b1mśi : [ma] ·[k]· ///
b2māṃ a kma lyo bo dhi sa ttu pā ciṃ tsa ryo ñ· kte¯ ¯s ku nti tsi to ra¯ ¯s̝ ///
b3r[i] yä¯ ¯s̝ la ntu ra¯ ¯s̝ kri tā ni kāṃ pa ///
b4ne • ta¯ ¯m ka klyu ṣu ra¯ ¯s̝ rī yā ka lymāṃ ri pā ///
b5s̝s̝a¯ ¯s̝ kā rpa¯ ¯s̝tta¯ ¯k [t]ā ṣri yaṃ [cm]o ///
b6pa raṃ cwā ksa rki ye ṣñä kta – – kā ///
b7– – – koṃ wra sa¯ ¯ñä cwā ksa rki la ñce¯ ¯ñcä ///
b8– – – – – ṇ(·)i¯ ¯k o ṅk[r]a [ci] tso ///

Transcription

a1 – – – – s· ñi rarkuṣ t·lis ///
a2 – – cakravartti wäl ñäkciñi lāñś : kalkāl pi ///
a3 ktāṃ yatsi : kāmar ṣeṣäm tuṣit«†ä» pkāk«†ä» ///
a4 lo ytsi pälko naṣt cwäṣ śralune ṣokyo ///
a5 ats cwäṣ tsrorā tärmiñc klopyo swiñc wa ///
a6 kärsoräṣ rinäṣtār was yātiśśi ā /// (kä)-
a7 -rparäṃnyo poñcäṃ ārkiśoṣi ytäs(m)āṃ oki yäṣtmäṣ /// (ā)-
a8 -rkyant m· ///
b1 mśi : ma ·k· ///
b2 māṃ akmalyo bodhisattu pāciṃ tsaryo ñ(ä)ktes kunti tsitoräṣ ///
b3 riyäṣ lanturäṣ kritānikāṃ pä(ltsäkyo) ///
b4 netäm kaklyuṣuräṣ rīyā kälymāṃ ripā ///
b5 ṣṣäṣ kārpaṣt nātäk tāṣ riyaṃ cmo ///
b6 paräṃ cwāk särki yeṣ ñäkta – – kā ///
b7 – – – koṃ wrasañ cwāk särki läñceñc ///
b8 – – – – – ṇ·ik oṅkraci tso ///

Translation

a3 ... the Tuṣita world was complete for them in every detail
b2 with a (smil)ing face ... having touched the pot
b3 having left the town, with a grateful thought

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.

Parallel texts

MaitrHami 13, 8-9

Philological commentary

This fragment contains part of the thirteenth act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; an Uy. parallel is MaitrHami XIII, 8a-ca. 9a15. See also Pinault 1999a: 201.

References

Miscellaneous

Online access

IDP: THT 929; TITUS: THT 929

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 156; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 156

Translations

Carling 2000: b2 (88), b4 (154, 157, 158, 339), b7 (296); Thomas 1957: a4 (248)

Bibliography

Carling 2000

Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

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.

IDP

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

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.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

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

Thomas 1957

Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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.”