A 30
| Known as: | A 30; THT 663 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn; Michaël Peyrot. "A 30". 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-a30 (accessed 18 May 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn; Michaël Peyrot |
| Date of online publication: | 2012-11-02 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 64.02 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Unknown Avadāna |
| Passage: | Remorse of bad deeds of an EGO |
| 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 | 20 2 |
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| a1 | [vi] pu lṣu la ṣlyu tā¯ ¯r tpa rto p[n]a /// |
| a2 | kuya lśkaṃ co la¯ ¯cä ñā ssa ru kuya /// |
| a3 | cmo¯ ¯l ño¯ ¯m : dha rma vṛ ddhi ○ /// |
| a4 | ṣa¯ ¯nt wä rpā te : 3 kuya¯ ¯l ○ /// |
| a5 | ṣi¯ ¯m ku sne na¯ ¯s̝ a ppa rmā¯ ¯t [y](·) /// |
| a6 | rṣi pyā pyo k[i] ptā ñä kta¯ ¯ñä mā ski /// |
| b1 | [sa]¯ ¯m nä¯ ¯s̝ lā ksā lmo ñcä¯ ¯s śrā va /// |
| b2 | u pā dhyā (·)o sa spra tti ka ña re y·[aṃ] /// |
| b3 | ¯s̝ kuli kraṃ ts(·) ta tra ṅku ○ /// |
| b4 | rṣu la ṣtā pa¯ ¯rk kla waṃ tra ○ /// |
| b5 | ma¯ ¯nt sā ṅki¯ ¯k ṣṭā ma ṣi nā s[ka] /// |
| b6 | [sa]¯ ¯s śwā lṣi to¯ ¯p tā pa¯ ¯rk /// |
Transcription
| lf | 20-2 |
| a1 | vipul ṣuläṣ lyutār tpär top na(ṣ) /// |
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| a2 | kuyal śkaṃ c{m}olac ñāss aru kuya(l) /// |
| a3 | cmol ñom : dharmavṛddhi /// (el) (e)¬ |
| a4 | ṣant wärpāte : 3 kuyal /// |
| a5 | n1 ṣim kus ne näṣ appärmāt y(āmu) /// (udumpa)¬ |
| a6 | rṣi pyāpy oki ptāñäktañ māski /// |
| b1 | säm näṣ lāksā lmoñcäs śrāva(sti) /// |
| b2 | upādhyā (t)osäs prattika-ñarey(ntw)aṃ /// |
| b3 | ṣ kuli kräṃts(o) taträṅku(s) /// (sume)¬ |
| b4 | r-ṣuläṣ tāpärk klawaṃträ /// (sā)¬ |
| b5 | mantn2 sāṅkik ṣṭāmaṣinās ka /// |
| b6 | sas śwālṣi top tāpärk /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... there (is) a heap [that is] higher than mount Vipula ... |
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| a2 | ... and why the desire for rebirth was evoked? Why ... |
| a3 | ... a birth with the name ... . The Dharmavṛddhi [prosperity of the Law] ... |
| a3+ | ... the (gi)ver (of gifts) enjoyed ... |
| a4 | Why ... |
| a5 | ... would I (hear the Law?)? I who have treated badly (others) ... |
| a5+ | ... the Buddhalords (appear) with difficulty (in the world) like the Udumbara flower ... |
| b1 | .. I ... those people riding on steeds in (the city of) Śrāvasti ... |
| b2 | ... the teacher ... in those individual hells ... |
| b3 | ... a beautiful woman (is) clinging to ... |
| b3+ | ... now they are falling from mount Sumeru ... |
| b4+ | ... they (collec)ted (fruits?) of trees belonging to the community ... |
| b6 | ... one heap of meat now ... |
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 including the string hole space in lines 3 and 4. |
Philological commentary
| The verso is in prose, the recto in verse. | |
| n1 | ṣim is the end of a 1.sg. optative, probably klyoṣim 'may I hear', less likely are wleṣim 'may I work' and wināṣim 'may I worship'. |
| n2 | mant is probably the end of a 3.pl. middle preterite I form from a root ending in -m, such as sāmā- 'to collect' or kāmā- 'to bring'. At the end ka is the beginning of a term being fem.pl.; since karkes 'branches' is most likely masculine, it does not fit. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 21; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 21
Translations
Hackstein 1995: a2 (47); Meunier 2013: a5 (160); Thomas 1957: a2 (294); Thomas 1958a: a1 (142); Thomas 1977b: a1 (175)
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Meunier, Fanny. 2013. “Typologie des locutions en yām- du tokharien.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 123–85.
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.
Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Thomas, Werner. 1958a. “Zum Ausdruck der Komparation beim tocharischen Adjektiv.” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 75: 129–69.
Thomas, Werner. 1977b. “Zu „Tocharisch“ im Handbuch der Orientalistik.” Orbis 26: 168–79.
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.
