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A 388

Known as:A 388; THT 1022
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 388". 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-a388 (accessed 05 May 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Bezeklik
Expedition code:T III M 142.1
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:Skt.; TA
Script:late

Text contents

Title of the work:Bilingual
Text genre:Literary

Object

Manuscript:A 387-390
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:4

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Transliteration

a1/// • pra tyu ktā ni • pka¯ ¯nt pka¯ ¯nt sva bhā wä ntu we wñu ///
a2/// ·i dhaṃ • a ra mpā¯ ¯t • wä¯ ¯s̝t wä k[n]· ///
a3/// k[a] saṃ sa sa kyā pa vi ṣe¯ ¯yä ///
a4/// ā la mpaṃ ya si • mā ā lko¯ ¯nt i ndri ///
b1/// lpa nāṃ tsu sa¯ ¯m a kmā nāṃ tsu • a rka tsapa ///
b2/// ta ntu lka si cä mpa mi nā[¯] [¯ñä] ///
b3/// [ā] ne ñci lkā¯ ¯s̝ ke ne tsru tā ///
b4/// ¯p we ñlu ne yā śro tra • klo śnā ṣiṃ i ndri yi¯ – ///

Transcription

a1 /// • pratyuktāni • pkänt pkänt svabhāwäntu wewñu ///
a2 /// ·idhaṃ • arämpātwäṣt wäkn· ///
a3 /// kasaṃ sasäkyāpä viṣey ///
a4 /// ālampaṃ yasi ālkont indri(ñ) ///
b1 /// (ka)lp«†ä» nāṃtsu säm ak nāṃtsuarkätsäṃ ///
b2 /// täntu lkasi cämpamināñ ///
b3 /// āneñci lkāṣ ke ne tsru ///
b4 /// p weñluneyā śrotra • klośnāṣiṃ indriyi(s) ///

Translation

b1 it is (not) the ... [and] it is not the eye. From the burning sight ...
b2 then they are able to see

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 1022; TITUS: THT 1022

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 215; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 215

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.

Sieg and Siegling 1921

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. 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.”