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A 416.a

Known as:A 416.a; THT 1050a; Bleistiftnummer 3117
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot; Angelo Mascheroni (translation). "A 416.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-a416a (accessed 17 Feb. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Michaël Peyrot; Angelo Mascheroni (translation)

Provenience

Main find spot:Sengim
Expedition code:T II S 19.14 (written with black marker on the glass plate)
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:Skt.; TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Karmavācanā
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Vinaya
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Manuscript:A 415-416
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):4.6 × 2.6 cm
Number of lines:4

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Transliteration

a1/// ·[ā] – ///
a2/// yyā sa ///
a3/// – ṇyau • [s]· ///
a4/// – na : – ///
b1/// ni¯ ¯t ///
b2/// [tv]ā riṃ śa· [r]· ///
b3/// [yaṃ] vī rya – ///
b4/// • [a] – ///

Transcription

a1/// ·ā – ///
a2/// (śai)yyāsa(na) ///
a3/// (bhikṣu)ṇyaus(aṃghasya) ///
a4/// – na : – ///
b1/// nit ///
b2/// (ca)tvāriṃśa(d)r(ātrīḥ) ///
b3n1 /// yaṃ vīrya – ///
b4/// • a – ///

Translation

a1...
a2... bed and seat ...
a3...
a4...
b1...
b2...
b3...
b4...

Commentary

Remarks

*Part of a "Nonnenritual", as noticed by Sieg and Siegling 1921: 229 and confirmed by Ogihara 2009: 481.

Philological commentary

n1Probably (i)yaṃ Vīrya(cintā), cf. A 415 b2, here with a (more) Sanskritized variant of the nun´s name.

References

other

Ogihara 2009: 161-162, 473-474; Ogihara 2009: 161, 474

Online access

IDP: THT 1050a

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2009

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

Sieg and Siegling 1921

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.