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A 370

Known as:	A 370; THT 1004; SHT 396; Lüders no. S 291
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "A 370". 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-a370 (accessed 06 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 78.4
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA; Sanskrit
Script:	late
Text contents
Title of the work:	Invitation to and praise of donation to the monastery
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Donation
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	7 × 41.5 cm
Number of lines:	5

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

b4	pa klyo ssū pi ssa ṅkṣi ñe mi ña kta [s]nai vā si kā śśi dha rma tāṃ ā yi¯ ¯s̝ • ku sne ña kta¯ ¯ñä nai vā si kā¯ ¯ñä tri ñe mi ntu pā s·i wra po¯ ¯s̝ • bra mñä¯ ¯t wlā ññä¯ ¯t śtwa· ś· – –
b5	[k]ci ñi lā¯ ¯ś vi ṣṇu ma hi śva¯ ¯r ska ndha kumā re nä ṣṣa ci • vi ki o ka tpi tā śśi nā¯ ¯ñä ya k[ṣ]ā¯ ¯ñä ku mpā ntā¯ ¯ñä kī nta re ñka ndha ru vī¯ ¯ñä tkaṃ ṣi ñi e ppre ṣi ñi ku spa t[nu] ña kta¯ ¯ñä – – –

Transcription

b4	n1 päklyossū pis saṅkṣi ñemi ñaktas naivāsikāśśi dharmatāṃ āyiṣ • kus ne ñaktañ naivāsikāñ tri ñemintu pās(s)i wräpoṣ • bramñät wlāññät śtwa(r) ś· – –
b5	kciñi lāś viṣṇu mahiśvar skandhakumārenäṣṣ aci • viki-okät-pi tāśśi nāñ yakṣāñ kumpāntāñ kīntareñ kandharuvīñ tkaṃṣiñi eppreṣiñi kus pat nu ñaktañ – – –

Translation

b4	...Which gods [and] Naivāsikas, [who have] consented to guard the three jewels ...
b5	... which are the terrestrial or the heavenly gods

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).

Philological commentary

n1	supplementation and translation of a4 kusne ... wräpoṣ: Schmidt 1986b: 122.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1004; TITUS: THT 1004

Edition

Lüders 1930: 31; Lüders 1940: 619; Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 205; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 205

Translations

Knoll 1996: a5 (107, 111); Schmidt 1974: a4 (237f); Schmidt 1986b: a4 (122)

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.

IDP

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

Knoll 1996

Knoll, Gabriele. 1996. “Die Verwendungsweisen der Adjektive im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Lüders 1930

Lüders, Heinrich. 1930. Weitere Beiträge zur Geschichte und Geographie von Ostturkestan. Vol. 1930/1. Sitzungsberichte der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Berlin: Verlag der Akadamie der Wissenschaften.

Lüders 1940

Lüders, Heinrich. 1940. Philologica Indica. Ausgewählte kleine Schriften. Festgabe zum 70. Geburtstag am 25. Juni 1939 dargebracht von Kollegen, Freunden und Schülern. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Schmidt 1974

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

Schmidt 1986b

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1986b. “Fragmente eines buddhistischen Ordinationsrituals in westtocharischer Sprache. Aus der Schule der Sarvāstivādins. Text, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen und Indizes.” {Habilitation}.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921a. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. 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.”