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A 309

Known as:A 309; THT 942
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 309". 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-a309 (accessed 27 Jul. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 95.04
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:late

Text contents

Title of the work:Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Drama
Verse/Prose:prose; verse

Object

Manuscript:M-δ
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

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Transliteration

a1/// ntra • || mai traṃ || ku
a2/// lwaṃ : kuya¯ ¯l tṣaṃ ta
a3/// ·w· ñe¯ ¯ñcä ṣa kka tsce ṣya
a4/// rśo nwā tse ku hā ke
a5/// ne de śi tpā kkra śi
a6/// na peṃ ṣi wa rtsi
b1/// ·t· ne ptā ñka tmā
b2/// ··ra¯ ¯m ā kā lri to
b3/// [ra]¯ ¯s̝ wtā kśā waṃ ña re
b4/// hu śi ṣya kaṃ || me tra
b5/// rśo nwā tsapa ltsa kyo :
b6/// [y]· ma¯ ¯ṅk kaṃ tsā ṣa

Transcription

a1/// nträ • ॥ maitraṃku
a2/// lwaṃ : kuyal tṣaṃ ta
a3/// ·w(e)ñeñc ṣakk ats ceṣ ya
a4/// (tā)rśonwātse kuhāke
a5/// ne deśit pākkraśi
a6/// napeṃṣi wartsi
b1/// ·t·ne ptāñkat
b2/// ··räm ākāl rito
b3/// räṣ wtā-k śāwaṃ ñare
b4/// (ba)huśiṣyakaṃmetra
b5/// (tā)rśonwātsäṃ pältsäkyo :
b6/// maṅk käṃtsāṣa

Translation

b2the wish expressed is fulfilled for you

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.
Fragment of a manuscript which includes A 306, A 307, A 308, A 309 and A 310.

Philological commentary

The fragment is not classified, but it is part of the Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka, most likely of the Höllenkapitel (XX-XXV) (cf. Pinault 1999: 205).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 942; TITUS: THT 942

Miscellaneous

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 165; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 165

Translations

Hackstein 1995: b6 (100)

Bibliography

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.

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

IDP

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

Pinault 1999

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 and Siegling 1921

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

Sieg and Siegling 1921

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.

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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.