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A 321

Known as:A 321; THT 955
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 321". 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-a321 (accessed 29 Nov. 2023).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Šorčuq
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 69.22
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:late

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Meter:M14

Object

Manuscript:A 312-331
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:8

Transliteration

a1/// ¯m ku – – – [sa]¯ ¯m ṣā ñu pā yna ṣmā pe ṣta re ku cne nä ///
a2/// ye tu sāṃ ka pśa ñi • tsre sma ku ā ṅka ra syo wä syā ///
a3/// ·ṣ· pe nu śä¯ ¯k o ka tpi nā kmaṃ tyo ka knu sāṃ ///
a4/// msa¯ ¯r trā [bh]· yo ku tti śkaṃ e sā pa rmāṃ lo kwä ///
a5/// ype [s]· nts· – ¯pa rsko¯ ¯s ṣñi kā ///
a6/// rta kwā tsi o s❠¯t ///
a7/// ñy[o] ki ā yä ntu wra ṣñi [kā] ///
a8/// ¯ñä tā ṣkā rā śaṃ : ku ssa¯ ¯m ///
b1/// ·na¯ ¯s̝ ā na¯ ¯nd pa lke te mi [k]ul· ///
b2/// ·t· tw· – kule ñci nāṃ ka pśi ñño [k]· ///
b3/// ¯k tñi spa ktāṃ yā ///
b4/// ṣt· – spo – ·ä – ¯s̝ tmā tu pu rs❠¯r ///
b5/// yā mwāṃ • || da śa ba laṃ || tsa raṃ mā nta ntñya k· ///
b6/// śkaṃ ka rṣteṃ kā ru ṇyo : yā mweṃ klu ṣpe tma¯ ¯s̝ [mā] ///
b7/// [m]a śki tāṃ mro ska ṣli smo saṃ tsa rā e ntseṃ t❠¯s̝ ṣyä rke ///
b8/// s̝ka – – – [s]m[o] saṃ pe nu tā ṣpa rno ntsāṃ pu tti śpa rṣā k· ///

Transcription

a1 /// m ku – – – säm ṣāñ upāy naṣ pe ṣtare kuc ne nä ///
a2 /// yetusāṃ kapśañi • tsres maku āṅkaräsyo wäs ///
a3 /// ·ṣ· penu śäk okät pi nākmaṃtyo kaknusāṃ ///
a4 /// msär trābh·yo ku{t/n}ti śkaṃ esā pärmāṃ lok wä ///
a5 /// ypes·nts· – ṣ pärskos ṣñi kā ///
a6 /// r täkwātsi osāt ///
a7 /// ñy oki āyäntu wraṣ-ñi kā ///
a8 /// ñ tāṣ kārāśaṃ : kus säm ///
b1 /// ·näṣ ānand pälke temi kul(e) ///
b2 /// ·t·tw· – kuleñcināṃ kapśiñño k· ///
b3 /// k tñi spaktāṃ ///
b4 /// ṣt· – spo – ·ä – ṣ tmā tu pursār ///
b5 /// yāmwāṃ • ॥ daśabalaṃ
1a tsaräṃ māntant ; ñy ak· ///
1x b6 /// śkaṃ kärṣteṃ ; kāruṇyo :
1x yāmweṃ kluṣpe ; tmäṣ ///
b7 /// mäśkitāṃ mroskäṣlis mosaṃ tsarā entseṃ tāṣ ṣyärke ///
b8 /// ṣ kä – – – s mosaṃ penu tāṣ parnontsāṃ puttiśpar ṣā«ṃ» k(apśañi) ///

Translation

a2 ... with hard nails and teeth ...
a4 ... also carrying a pot on the/her(?) shoulder ...
b6 and I cut it with compassion and I made for him (?) a rice-mush ...

Other

b4 ... daran rieche du! ... (Schmidt 1974: 186)

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).

References

Miscellaneous

Online access

IDP: THT 955; TITUS: THT 955

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 175-176; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 175, p. 176

Translations

Carling 2000: a4 (205), a8 (111), b7 (207); Hackstein 1995: b4 (260f); Schmidt 1974: b4 (186); Thomas 1952: b7 (53)

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.

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.

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Göttingen.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

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

Thomas 1952

Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

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.”