A 37
| Known as: | A 37; THT 670 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault. "A 37". 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-a37 (accessed 15 Jul. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault |
| Date of online publication: | 2012-11-03 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 92.06 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Avadāna |
| Passage: | King Kṛkin |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 1-54 |
| Following fragment: | A 38 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| lf | 30 8 |
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| a1 | ño mā ñä kta śśi pa ttā ñka¯ ¯t /// |
| a2 | kṛ ki wä¯ ¯l ku rsa rtso pa tsaṃ /// |
| a3 | rtma¯ ¯s̝ ā la ksaṃ pā rlā ○ /// |
| a4 | na¯ ¯s̝ lu o ki : cmo ○ /// |
| a5 | ska mma ntā¯ ¯m : wra sa¯ ¯ñä pñi /// |
| a6 | ska ma¯ ¯t o ma ske naṃ ri t[w](·)[a] /// |
| b1 | lmā na ṣku pre ne ka pśiṃ ño s[a] /// |
| b2 | mā¯ ¯r tma ṣnu na kpa lskā¯ ¯t ku /// |
| b3 | raṃ lä ṅñi¯ ¯m ko sne ○ /// |
| b4 | ¯s̝ śla¯ ¯k śkaṃ || me ña ○ /// |
| b5 | tra : kā su ño¯ ¯m klyu sa /// |
| b6 | ntra ku tsmā tā¯ ¯ñä na mse[¯] [¯ñcä] /// |
(continues on A 38)
Transcription
| lf | 30-8 |
| a1 | ñomā ñäktaśśi pättāñkät /// |
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| a2 | kṛki wäl kursär tsopatsäṃ /// |
| a3 | n1 °r tmäṣ ālak-saṃ pārlā° /// |
| a4 | n2 näṣ lu oki : cmo(l) /// |
| a5 | skam mäntām : wrasañ pñi(ntu) /// |
| a6 | n3 skamat omäskenäṃ ritw(ṣ)a(ntāñ) /// |
| b1 | n4 °l mā näṣ kuprene kapśiṃño sa° /// |
| b2 | n5 °mār tmäṣ nuna-k pälskāt ku° /// |
| b3 | °raṃ läṅñim kos ne /// (tmä)¬ |
| b4 | ṣn6 śla-k śkaṃ ॥ meña(meññaṃ) /// |
| b5 | n6 °trä : kāsu ñom-klyu sä(tkatär) /// |
| b6 | n6 °nträ kutsmātāñ nämseñc /// |
(continues on A 38)
Translation
| a1 | ... the Buddha god of gods named (Kāśyapa?) ... |
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| a2 | the king Kṛkin (made a stūpa?) one mile large ... |
| a3 | ... Thereupon some other ... |
| a4 | ... like a beast. (In?) the rebirth ... |
| a5 | I always destroy ... . The living beings ... merit(s) ... |
| a6 | always wea(ving) [webs of] evil ... |
| b1 | ... I will not be (reborn?) if I (burn??) with the body ... |
| b2 | ... I ... . Thereupon he thought again: "..." |
| b3 | ... may I dangle on ... as long as ... |
| b3+ | ... (the)n likewise also: |
| b4 | (In) [the tune] meña(meñ) ... |
| b5 | ... he ... The good reknown spre(ads) ... |
| b6 | ... they ... The Kutsmāt bow ... |
(continues on A 38)
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. | |
| Left part of a leaf with the string hole preserved. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | The reading pārlā is certain. A misspelling for pārlyāṅk is out of the question in any case because this is a technical term borrowed from Sanskrit (= TB parlyāṅk) and refers to the crosslegged position in meditation. |
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| n2 | näṣ is rather an ablative form of an n-stem than the 1st singular personal pronoun. omäskenäṣ "because of evil" would be a possibilty (cf. line a 6). |
| n3 | On top of the ligatura we cannot see a vowel, so that it cannot be anything else than the present participle of the causative of the root ritwā-. |
| n4 | l is the end of a gerundive constructed with näṣ in a nominal sentence. sa could be the beginning of a 1.sg.act. subjunctive form of sälp- 'to burn'. |
| n5 | mār is the end of a 1.sg. middle verb form. ku is certainly a form of the interrogative pronoun kus or the beginning of the conjunction kuprene 'if'. |
| n6 | The tune has 4x18 syllables (7/7/4). |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 24; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 24
Bibliography
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.
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.
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.
