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A 342

Known as:A 342; THT 976
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault. "A 342". 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-a342 (accessed 14 Jun. 2026).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 80.13
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Araṇemijātaka
Passage:b or c
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:prose; verse
Meter:4343 (4x)

Object

Manuscript:Araṇemi
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Transliteration

a1– – – – – – – – – – ¯l ts· – – – – ś· nyo ā mā śā sa¯ ¯cä pa lko ra¯ ¯s̝ tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ ma¯ ¯r ma ntā – –
a2– – – – – – – – – – mā te ta mñi ṣtmo ta myo ta mñi ka ls̝a¯ ¯l ca s̝a¯ ¯s̝ e nä ṣlu ne ṣiṃ e rkā tu ne ||
a3[t]ma¯ ¯s̝ – – – ñä ka lycaṃ kā re syo tā na śo li¯ ¯s yo kmaṃ¯ ¯cä ṣtmo ra¯ ¯s̝ śla wä kta su rñe lā nta
a4cä tra ṅk· – || phu ll· – || lā ·tu ne ṣiṃ kra – ¯ä ti ryā ā ri¯ ¯ñcä wa saṃ e ntsā te : kā swo ne yi¯ ¯s śmo ññe na¯ ¯s̝t
a5[m]ā – – k· yä rkā yä[¯] [¯l] mā śkaṃ nā ta¯ ¯k wa¯ ¯s [c]ä mplye tñe rkā tu ne ca s̝a kla ssi : o ñi cmo lṣi rā kṣa[¯] [¯nt] – –
b1ka lka¯ ¯s̝ lo ymā¯ ¯r c[a]¯ ¯s̝ ype y[ä]¯ ¯s̝ : 1 || klo pa sū nā ntsu wä¯ ¯l tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ pā cri [p]u ka w· ·ā¯ ¯ñä m· – –
b2ñā tse y[ä¯] [¯s̝] pā ṣlye ma[¯] [¯nt] wä tka śś[ñ]i ṣñi ka ṣṣiṃ ype yä¯ ¯s̝ tsa knā tsi ā mā śā¯ ¯ñä tra ṅki¯ ¯ñc mā [n]e nā ta¯ ¯k
b3caṃ [b]rā – e – mā ne wa¯ ¯s e ntsa tra wa snū taṃ ne wkaṃ nyo nā tki¯ ¯s yä slu nta śśä¯ ¯l mā cä mplye
b4– s· – – – – – – – || mnū lu ta smāṃ wä¯ ¯l tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ hai ṣo kyo nu o klo pa¯ ¯cä ka kmu na sa¯ ¯m ku¯ ¯cä
b5– – – – – – – – – rtma¯ ¯s̝ – – – – lā nta ṣke ka lpo¯ ¯s̝ kā re sā sā se yū¯ ¯s̝ śā lyi¯ ¯s po

Transcription

a1– – – – – – – – (tmäṣ) (wä)l ts(eṃ) (yokās) (a)ś(ä)nyo āmāśāsac pälkoräṣ träṅkäṣ mar mäntā(cär)
a2n1 – – – – – – – – – – mā te tam ñi ṣtmo tämyo täm ñi kälṣäl caṣäṣ enäṣluneṣiṃ erkātune ॥
a3tmäṣ (āmāśa)ñ{†ä} kälycaṃ kāresyo tānaśolis yokmaṃc ṣtmoräṣ śla wäktasurñe lānta¬
a4¬c{†ä}n2n3 träṅk(iñc) ॥ phull(enaṃ) ॥
1alā(ṃ)tuneṣiṃ ; kra(nt) tiryā ; āriñc wasäṃ ; entsāte :
1bkāswoneyis ; śmoññe naṣt ; a5 mā – – k· ; yärkā y{ä→a}l {:}
1cmā śkaṃ nātäk ; was cämplye ; tñ= erkātune ; caṣ{†ä} klässi :
1doñi cmolṣi ; rākṣant (säm) ; b1 kalkaṣ lo ymār ; caṣ ypeyäṣ : 1 ॥
*klopasū nāntsu wäl träṅkäṣ pācri puk{†ä} w· ··ā-ñ ·m· ·– –
b2ñātseyäṣ pāṣlye mänt wätkäśś ñi ṣñi käṣṣiṃ ypeyäṣ tsäknātsi āmāśāñ träṅkiñc mā ne nātäk
b3caṃ brā(māṃ) e(pe) mā ne was entsaträ was nū taṃne wkäṃnyo nātkis yäsluntaśśäl mā cämplye
b4– s· – – – – – – – ॥ mnū lutäsmāṃ wäl träṅkäṣ hai ṣokyo nu oklopac kakmu nasam kuc
b5– – – – – – – – – r tmäṣ (āmāśāñ) lāntaṣ ke kälpoṣ kāresā sāseyūṣ śālyis po¬
*¬(saṃ)

Translation

a1... (Thereupon the king) speaks, looking with [his] blue eyes onto the ministers:
a1“Do not scold [me]!
a1+... did he not also (?) stand by [my side]?
a2Therefore I, too, must bear the vexation of instruction from him.”
a2+Thereupon (the ministers) standing with threatening (?) swords at the door of the Dānaśāla with deference spoke to the king:
a4|| In the P.-( tune): ||
a4“By the good nature [of your] kingship you have seized our heart.
a4You are a sanctuary of virtue.
a4+(There is (?)) none that is to be praised more (?).
a5And we [are], o lord, not able to bear this your anger.
a5+This rākṣasa of human birth must quickly go away from this country.
b11.
b1Sadly the king speaks:
b1+“From a father all are to be protected from danger.
b2How [can] you command me to drive away [my] own teacher from the country?”
b2The ministers speak:
b2+Whether the lord keeps this Brahmin or whether he keeps us,
b3+yet with such an enemy of the lord we (are) not able (to cooperate (?)) ...
b4Confused the king speaks:
b4+“Alas, I have truly run into danger. How...
b5When (the ministers) (did not) obtain the consent of the king, below the hall, leaning upon [their] swords, (they asked him) (...) (again as follows):

Other

a3Darauf die (Minister), mit drohenden(?) Schwertern an der Tür der Dānaśālā stehend, ... (Schmidt 1974: 355, fn. 1)
a4Durch die gute Art [deines] Königtums hast du unser Herz ergriffen. (Schmidt 1974: 395)
a5+This rākṣasa of human birth must quickly go away from this country. (cf 36; 305) (Peyrot 2013b: 222)
b2+Die Minister sprechen: "Ob der Herr diesen Brahmanen oder uns behält, wir aber (sind) nicht imstande, mit einem derartigen Feind des Herrn (in diesem Lande zu bleiben(?))." (Schmidt 1974: 398)

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.
*This fragment must be placed after A 344 and, according to Sieg 1952: 35-6, after A 343. Schmidt 2001: 305, 308 places A 342 first.

Parallel texts

*THT 79

Philological commentary

*A conversation between the king and his ministers. The overlaps with THT 79 are particularly noticeable here. Continues (after a gap) THT 77 and is in turn continued by THT 80. The translation follows Schmidt 2001: 305-6, Sieg 1952: 36 and Carling et al. 2009. For the Uyghur version, see Schmidt 2001: 306; Hamilton 1986: 10.
*Ms should be turned around.
n3This tune has 4x14 syllables, rhythm 7/7. THT 79 also has a tune inserted at this point, but of different name and metre.

Linguistic commentary

n1tam 'also(?)'; alternatively, Couvreur 1954b: 261 suggests to read täm 'there, then' instead.
n2śālyis 'of (the) hall', gen. sg. of śāl or alternatively, according to Couvreur 1954b: 261 and parallel to the case of ñäkcyis : ñäkc(i)yās, it may stand for śālyās, obl. pl. fem. of śālyi 'left'. In this latter case one would have to supplement śālyis po(ṣṣāsā).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 976; TITUS: THT 976

Miscellaneous

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 188-189; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 188, p. 189

Translations

Barnes 2013: b2 b3 (33); Carling 2000: a4 (239), b3 (321); Hackstein 1995: a2 (141); TEB II: a2 (35); Peyrot 2013b: a5 b1 (222); Schmidt 1974: a2 a3 (398), a3 (355, fn. 1), a4 (395), b2 b3 b4 (398); Sieg 1952: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 (36-37); Sieg and Siegling 1983: b2 (172); Thomas 1952: a2 (20), a5 (36), b3 (36); Thomas 1954: a5 (741), b2 (729); Thomas 1957: a2 (295), b3 (92 n.2), b4 (246); Thomas 1958: a1 (300); Thomas 1979d: a3 a4 (150); Thomas 1981: a5 b1 (491), b2 (491); Thomas 1983: b4 (43); Thomas 1993: a3 a4 (195), a5 (198), b2 b3 (196), b3 b4 (196), b4 (197)