A 429
| Known as: | A 429; THT 1063 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling. "A 429". 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-a429 (accessed 18 Aug. 2026). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kocho |
| Expedition code: | T I D 9 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | late |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Meter: | 543 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 429-435 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 8 |
Transliteration
| a1 | /// ·o ne yä¯ ¯s̝ tā lo rñyä¯ ¯s̝ tā ki mcā /// |
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| a2 | /// nā me¯ ¯s wa rpi śke ya¯ ¯cä ysi o sā¯ ¯t o kā[¯] [¯k] /// |
| a3 | /// st[ā] k·¯ ¯s̝t tā pa¯ ¯t ysi o nu sna¯ ¯s̝t tā /// |
| a4 | /// k[l]yo¯ ¯s̝ u [p]ā dhy· ri yä¯ ¯s̝ ka kmu stā kā tm· /// |
| a5 | /// nā me – to lā ñcāṃ y[ā] msā t·i /// |
| a6 | /// ·ā [c]a¯ ¯r ku¯ ¯cä [p]ā – ¯r – [c]e /// |
| a7 | /// ñu¯ ¯k kra to l[ā] /// |
| a8 | /// |
| b1 | /// |
| b2 | /// sa mci tma¯ ¯k /// |
| b3 | /// sṣ· tre yä ntu ta mpa lko ra /// |
| b4 | /// || mai traṃ || kā ṅku kyo cā kra pa ssā /// |
| b5 | /// tmu stā¯ ¯s̝ • ṣa kka¯ ¯ts snyā la¯ ¯k wkaṃ sa¯ ¯m /// |
| b6 | /// llo ki śkaṃ nu smāṃ tā¯ ¯s̝ • wka npe nu sā /// |
| b7 | /// lpe naṃ msā¯ ¯s̝ lkā¯ ¯l tā s̝aṃ : ri śla kā wa¯ ¯s /// |
| b8 | /// lā nt – śä mma ska ta¯ ¯r : 3 || ta myo¯ ¯k /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// ·oneyäṣ tālorñyäṣ tākim cā /// |
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| a2 | /// nāmes warpiśkeyac ysi osāt okāk /// |
| a3 | /// s tāk·ṣt tā pat ysi onus naṣt tā /// |
| a4 | /// (pä)klyoṣ upādhy(ā) riyäṣ kakmus tākā tm· /// |
| a5 | /// nāme (krä)to lāñcāṃ yāmsāt ·i /// |
| a6 | /// ·ācar kuc pā – r – ce /// |
| a7 | /// ñuk kräto lā /// |
| a8 | /// |
| b1 | /// |
| b2 | /// sam ci tm-äk /// |
| b3 | /// s ṣ(o)treyäntu täm pälkorä(ṣ) /// |
| b4 | /// ॥ maitraṃ ॥ |
| 1a | kāṅkukyo cākrä ; pässā /// 5σ |
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| 1b | b512σ |
| 1c | 10σ /// tmus tāṣ • |
| 1d | ṣakk ats sny ālak wkäṃ ; säm /// 6σ |
| 2a | b612σ |
| 2b | 6σ /// ll oki śkaṃ ; nusmāṃ tāṣ • |
| 2c | wkän pe nusā /// 8σ |
| 2d | b712σ |
| 3a | 2σ /// (kupre) (ne) ; (śa)lpenaṃ msāṣ ; lkāl tāṣ-äṃ : |
| 3b | ri śla kāwas /// 8σ |
| 3c | b812σ |
| 3d | 6σ /// lānt – 1σ śäm ; mäskatär : 3 ॥ |
| * | tämyo-k /// |
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Translation
| a1 | may I free myself from the status of adoption [and] from misery |
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| a4 | listen, oh teacher: I have come from the city |
| a5 | Mahānāman has taken (lit. made) me as an adopted girl |
| b7 | (if) she looks under his underfeet, (she would make) the bathing with (water from) fountains |
Other
| a2 | ... begann, nach dem Garten des (Mahā)nāman zu gehen. (Schmidt 1974: 369) |
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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. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 1063; TITUS: THT 1063
Miscellaneous
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 235; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 235
Translations
Schmidt 1974: a2 (369); Thomas 1957: a3 (277), a4 (289)
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.
Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
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.
Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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.
