A 375
| Known as: | A 375; THT 1009 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 375". 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-a375 (accessed 13 Oct. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation) |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 33.1 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | late |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Homage to Buddha |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Buddhastotra |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 375-378 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 5 |
Images
Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | /// [ma] lko s̝a[¯] [¯s] : pa ñkä[¯] [¯nt] kā lpā [e] ṣu[ṃ]¯ ¯s̝ [e] s̝a¯ ¯k ś· kwe – tmāṃ sa – – – |
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| a2 | /// [spaṃ] lycä¯ ¯k mu kr[aṃ] : a ka [ppi] yo ywi¯ ¯cä ka l·[ṃ] – la ka ntri śk[aṃ] pā tru k· – – – |
| a3 | /// lyu tā¯ ¯r u mpa rñā¯ ¯ñä : ma ñi wra· [k]· mā na¯ ¯s̝ ā tli¯ ¯s ku [s]·· – – – |
| a4 | /// [ṣ]a s̝a rku[¯] [¯nt] – – [ma]ṃ kule wā¯ ¯ñä : pu¯ ¯k wa lyi śśi śmo ññe nā ntsu¯ ¯nt a rka mnā ṣi |
| a5 | /// [¯m] [l]· [p]· ṣo lā¯ ¯r : śā kwi¯ ¯s pa raṃ we wä¯ ¯lts wa lyi śā k[wi]· – – |
| b1 | /// we – ¯lts wa lyi we wä¯ ¯lts ā ntaṃ we wä¯ ¯lts a śnaṃ tma¯ ¯k śwe ñcäṃ : 60 – – – |
| b2 | /// w· wä¯ ¯lts lyme [na]ṃ naṃ : ka ma śśi nu pa raṃ wä¯ ¯lts [lts] ma cke¯ ¯s ka msaṃ we wä¯ ¯lts naṃ wä |
| b3 | /// o ka¯ ¯t wä¯ ¯lts ce¯ ¯s̝ : la pyo a kma¯ ¯l [św]e ñcäṃ wa lyi ykoṃ o ṣe ñi s[e] – – – |
| b4 | /// ku cne tra ṅklu ne ya ta¯ ¯r : ci ñcraṃ a¯ ¯k ml[aṃ] kā ruṃ a rs̝a la wa ly· – – – |
| b5 | /// ne : a rka mnā· ā – krā nā śśi le pśä śśi kuña¯ ¯śä yā ma – – – – |
Transcription
| a1 | /// mälkoṣäs : päñ känt kālpā eṣuṃṣ eṣäk ś(ä)k we (pi) tmāṃ sa – – – |
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| a2 | /// späṃ lycäk mukraṃ : akappiyo ywic kal·ṃ – lakan triśkaṃ pātruk· – – – |
| a3 | /// lyutār umparñāñ : mañi wra(s)k(e) mā naṣ ātlis kus·· – – – |
| a4 | /// ṣaṣärkunt – – maṃ kulewāñ : puk walyiśśi śmoññe nāntsunt arkämnāṣi |
| a5 | /// m l ·p· ṣolār : śākwis paraṃ we wälts walyi śākwi· – – |
| b1 | /// we (wä)lts walyi we wälts āntaṃ we wälts aśnaṃ tm-äk śweñc-äṃ : 60 – – – |
| b2 | /// w(e) wälts lymenaṃ n-äṃ : kamaśśi nu paraṃn1 wälts lts mäckes kamsaṃ we wälts n-äṃ wä |
| b3 | /// okät wälts ceṣ : lap yo akmal śweñc-äṃ walyi ykoṃ oṣeñi se – – – |
| b4 | /// kuc ne träṅklune yatär : ciñcräṃ akmlaṃ kāruṃ arṣäl{†ä} waly(i) – – – |
| b5 | n2 /// ne : arkämnā(ṣṣ)ā(s) (su)krānāśśi lepśäśśi kuñaś yāmä(ṣ) – – – – |
Translation
| a1 | ... put together... over five hundred kalpas eṣuṃṣ(?) 120 000... |
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| a2 | ... in a smooth mirror... full of impurity... trembling skull(s)... |
| a3 | ... the more evil ... [fem.pl.]. a male does not have the mañi(?) illness which... |
| a4 | ... having surpassed... the women, all having become the home of worms... of the cemetary... |
| a5 | ... up until... around the hair of the head (?), two thousand worms... of the hair of the head... |
| b1 | ... two thousand worms, two thousand eat away at his forehead, two thousand at his eyes... |
| b2 | ... two thousand are on his lips; around his teeth a thousand; on the teeth themselves are two thousand... |
| b3 | ... eight thousand of them eat his head and face. The worms... by day and night... |
| b4 | ... because he clings, he has to evoke pity towards his lovely face (to) the worms... |
| b5 | ... if he fights the vultures and jackals of the cemetary... |
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 | The fact that kamaśśi paraṃis contrasted with mäckes kamsaṃstrongly suggests that paraṃmeans "around, near". |
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| n2 | For the meaning of and , see Malzahn 2014: 92-93 after a proposal by Burlak and Itkin 2010: 355; note in addition that jackals and vultures are depicted on cemetery scenes from Qizil Caves 116 and 220; see Howard and Vignato 2014: 109. While we follow the semantic proposal by Burlak and Itkin 2010, their syntactic interpretation of the sentence is hardly possible. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 1009; TITUS: THT 1009
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 208; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 208
Translations
Burlak and Itkin 2010: b5 (355); Carling 2000: a1 (314), a5 (404), b1 (201); Couvreur 1959: a1 (252), a2 (252), a5 (252), b1 (252), b5 (252); Knoll 1996: a4 (95); Malzahn 2014: b5 (92-93); Thomas 1967: b3 (268); Thomas 1967c: b3 (180); Thomas 1972: b3 (430)
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