A 40
| Known as: | A 40; THT 673 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Fanny Meunier; Michaël Peyrot. "A 40". 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-a40 (accessed 20 Jan. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Fanny Meunier; Michaël Peyrot |
| Date of online publication: | 2013-10-02 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 63.03 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Avadāna |
| Passage: | Pretas and drought leaf 44 |
| Text genre: | Literary |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 1-54 |
| Following fragment: | A 41 |
| 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 | 40 4 |
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| a1 | (–) – pa nkaṃ ṣā [n]·· /// |
| a2 | [k]· cpo ke nyo ṣ[k]ā /// |
| a3 | raṃ kā kma¯ ¯rt lka /// |
| a4 | tra tñi ta ṣyā ma¯ ¯l [l]· /// |
| a5 | sne tu¯ ¯[ṅ](·) ·o – /// |
| a6 | – (–) – /// |
| b1 | – /// |
| b2 | na ṣnu wa – /// |
| b3 | s̝pa tmāṃ pre tā ñma /// |
| b4 | ¯m ka klyu ṣu ra[¯] – /// |
| b5 | – e kra ā smiṃ – /// |
| b6 | (–) [r]·· ṣa kka¯ ¯ts /// |
(continues on A 41)
Transcription
| lf | 40-4 |
| a1 | – – p{†ä} nkäṃṣān(t) /// |
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| a2 | n1n2 k(a)c pokenyo ṣkā(rā) /// |
| a3 | n3n4 räṃ kākmart lkä(ś) /// |
| a4 | trä tñi täṣ yāmäl l· /// |
| a5 | sne tuṅ(k) ·o – /// |
| a6 | – – – /// |
| b1 | – /// |
| b2 | naṣ nu wa – /// |
| b3 | n5 ṣpätmāṃ pretāñ mä /// (tä)¬ |
| b4 | m kaklyuṣurä(ṣ) /// |
| b5 | – ekrä-āsmiṃ – /// |
| b6 | – r·· ṣakkats /// |
(continues on A 41)
Translation
| a1 | ... they perished ... |
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| a2 | ... towards (?) ... with both arms backwards ... |
| a3 | ... master ... |
| a4 | ... this may be done by you ... |
| a5 | ... without love ... |
| a6 | ... |
| b1 | ... |
| b2 | ... but there is ... |
| b3 | ... 70,000 Pretas ... |
| b3+ | Having heard this, ... |
| b5 | ... empty [and] dry ... |
| b6 | ... certainly ... |
(continues on A 41)
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. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | k(a)c: probably an allative, less likely e.g. k(o)c 'up'. |
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| n2 | : cf. A 71 b6 pokeṃ ṣkārā kakärkuräṣ. |
| n3 | räṃ: perhaps (puttiśpa)räṃ, as an apposition to kākmart, meaning 'master of the dignity of the Buddha'. |
| n4 | lkä(ś): cf. A 249 a2 lkäś 'light' (Pinault 2008: 288). Another possibility would be A 219 a2 lkäs. |
| n5 | mä ///: perhaps e.g. mä(skanträ) 'they are'. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 25; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 25
Translations
Knoll 1996: b5 (109)
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.
Knoll, Gabriele. 1996. “Die Verwendungsweisen der Adjektive im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Pinault, Georges-Jean. 2008. Chrestomathie tokharienne. Textes et Grammaire. Leuven/Paris: Peeters.
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.
