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A 408.a

Known as:A 408.a; THT 1042a; Bleistiftnummer 3112
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot. "A 408.a". 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-a408a (accessed 04 Dec. 2023).

Edition

Editor:Michaël Peyrot

Provenience

Main find spot:Siŋgim
Expedition code:T II S 19.20; T II S 19.19f
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Bhikṣuṇī-Prātimokṣasūtra?
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Vinaya
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Manuscript:A 415-416
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):6.4 × 3.8 cm
Number of lines:5

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Transliteration

a1/// – || a śśe sne ///
a2/// ktsu ○ ///
a3/// [kl]u ṣṭaṃ ○ ///
a4/// – ka tra ○ ///
a5/// – ka¯ ¯rm – ///
b1/// [s]·¯ ¯[r]k – ///
b2/// – ¯ñä ○ ///
b3/// ·[ā] li ○ ///
b4/// ppi ○ ///
b5/// – ca ṣprā • [c]· ///

Transcription

a1 n1 /// – ॥ aśśe sne ///
a2 n2 /// ktsu ///
a3 /// klu ṣṭaṃ ///
a4 /// – kä trä ///
a5 /// – karm – ///
b1 /// s(a)rk – ///
b2 /// – ñ ///
b3 /// ·āli ///
b4 /// (aka)ppi ///
b5 /// – caṣ prā • c· ///

Translation

a1 ... || Of the nun without ...
a2 ... foolishness (?) ...
a3 ...
a4 ...
a5 ...
b1 ... cycle ...
b2 ...
b3 ...
b4 ... impurity ...
b5 ...

Commentary

Remarks

In one frame with A 408 and A 408.b-A 408.i. The left part of the string hole space, which covers lines 2-4, is preserved. Although this fragment is not edited by Ogihara 2009a, the word aśśe may be an indication that it belongs to the Bhikṣuṇī-Prātimokṣasūtra. Therefore, it is provisionally assumed that it belongs to manuscript A 415-416, not to A 406-408.

Philological commentary

n1 aśśe: this could be the attestation noted in Sieg et al. 1931: 87 as "Frgm.".
n2 /// ktsu ///: possibly (ā)ktsu(ne).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1042a

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2009a

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2009a. “Researches about Vinaya-texts in Tocharian A and B [Recherches sur le Vinaya en tokharien A et B].” PhD thesis, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Sieg et al. 1931

Sieg, Emil, Wilhelm Siegling, and Wilhelm Schulze. 1931. Tocharische Grammatik. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.