A 308
| Known as: | A 308; THT 941 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling. "A 308". 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-a308 (accessed 27 Apr. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 90.3 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka |
| Passage: | Act 27 |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Drama |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | M-δ |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | śkaṃ śä ktmāṃ wsā yo [k]· /// |
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| a2 | pa rka māṃ koṃ ma ñ·i ·ā yt[ā] [r](·) [o] /// |
| a3 | ku sāṃ pā ṇḍu ka mpa¯ ¯l ñä kcyāṃ /// |
| a4 | ga pu ṣpi spo saṃ va jrā sa nā /// |
| a5 | mpa lpā reṃ y· s̝ta rta /// |
| a6 | rno pa lka¯ ¯s̝ /// |
| lf | 3 100 90 5 |
| b1 | mci ñä kci /// |
| b2 | tra kaṃ ptā – tā p· tr·· ñ· /// |
| b3 | di mbu reṃ pa ñca śi kheṃ [ci] – s· /// |
| b4 | pā kṣeṃ vai śra vaṃ lā nta ṣṣa [ci] [ā] /// |
| b5 | śa ye ñka¯ ¯t de va rṣiṃ pra ka /// |
| b6 | yā ytu¯ ¯nt ta klo /// |
Transcription
| lf | 3-100-90-5 |
| a1 | śkaṃ śäk tmāṃ wsā yok· /// |
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| a2 | pärkamāṃ koṃ mañ·i·ā ytār· o /// |
| a3 | kusāṃ pāṇḍukampal ñäkcyāṃ /// (na)¬ |
| a4 | gapuṣpis posaṃ vajrāsanā /// (pāṇḍuka)¬ |
| a5 | mpal pāreṃ y(tä)ṣtär ta /// |
| a6 | rno pälkäṣ /// |
| b1 | m ci ñäkci /// |
| b2 | trakäṃ ptā – tāp·tr··ñ· /// |
| b3 | dimbureṃ pañcaśikheṃ ci – s· /// (virū)¬ |
| b4 | pākṣeṃ vaiśravaṃ lāntäṣṣ aci ā /// |
| b5 | śaye ñkät devarṣiṃ prakä /// |
| b6 | yāytunt täklo /// |
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 306, A 307, A 308, A 309 and A 310. |
Parallel texts
| MaitrSiŋgim, Taf. 89 |
Philological commentary
| This fragment contains part of the twenty-seventh act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka. An Uy. parallel would be MaitrSiŋgim, Taf. 89r (Tekin 1980: 217). See Pinault 1999: 204. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 165; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 165
Translations
Carling 2000: a2 (404), a4 (360)
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.
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.
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.
Tekin, Şinasi. 1980. Maitrisimit nom bitig. Die uigurische Übersetzung eines Werkes der buddhistischen Vaibhāṣika-Schule. 1. Teil: Transliteration, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen. 2. Teil: Analytischer und rückläufiger Index. Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients, Berliner Turfantexte, IX. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
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.
