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A 436

Known as:	A 436; THT 1070
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "A 436". 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-a436 (accessed 03 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Khočo (Dakianus)
Expedition code:	T I D27
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Object
Manuscript:	A 436-445
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

Images

Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

a1	/// [ca]¯ ¯r pl[ā] kṣā¯ ¯t wa s̝ta s̝la¯ ¯cä ta mne wä kn· ·k· ///
a2	/// ·ā ka ñi tā ne ā ptā yā ma lṣe¯ ¯m tma ṣko spreṃ na śśi ka lpā lṣe¯ ¯m taṃ ///
a3	/// ttu tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ ā kṣi ññi twa saṃ tmi[¯] [¯s] a¯ ¯rthä ptā ñkä ttra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ ca mā ///
a4	/// ka lpa śśi pe nu – – l· – – – – – – – – [pra] ṣtaṃ nmu kṣa pi [ñci] ///
a5	/// ypa[¯] [¯m] ///
a6	///
b1	///
b2	/// ¯s̝t lmo [ñcā] – – – – – – – – – – ·ṣ· tri kā ñṣe¯ ¯ñcä ksa ///
b3	/// ¯m mā klyo ṣā¯ ¯r koṃ [p]· ñc· ṅko su kw· ñi yā mu ra¯ ¯s̝ [ś]ä psa śśä ltri wo¯ ¯s̝ ///
b4	/// [mu] ra¯ ¯s̝ ṣkā rā lo ta¯ ¯k || wä¯ ¯l klyo¯ ¯s̝ ra pe ṣiṃ wa śeṃ pa rksā¯ ¯t ku sta [ṣ]·e ///
b5	/// nä¯ ¯s̝ pa raṃ ka lpo mā na sa lṣe¯ ¯m ta nä kṣa kka¯ ¯ts pu¯ ¯k śo la¯ ¯s̝ pka¯ – ///
b6	/// ¯m [w]e ññā mma na¯ ¯cä lā ñci ti ri ka ///

Transcription

a1	/// car plākṣāt waṣtäṣ läc tämne wäkn(ā) ·k· ///
a2	/// ·āka ñi tā ne āptā yāmäl ṣem tmäṣ kospreṃn aśśi kälpāl ṣem taṃ ///
a3	/// ttu träṅkäṣ ākṣiññit wasäṃ tmis arth ptāñkät träṅkäṣ camā ///
a4	/// kalpaśśi penu – – l· – – – – – – – – praṣtaṃ nmukṣapiñci ///
a5	/// ypam ///
a6	///
b1	///
b2	/// (wa)ṣt lmoñcā – – – – – – – – – – ·ṣ· trikāñ ṣeñc ksä ///
b3	/// m mā klyoṣār koṃ p·ñc·ṅko suk w(a)ñi yāmuräṣ śäpsaśśäl triwoṣ ///
b4	/// muräṣ ṣkārā lotäk ॥ wäl klyoṣ rapeṣiṃ waśeṃ pärksāt kus täṣ ·e ///
b5	/// näṣ paräṃ kälpo mā nasäl ṣem tanäk ṣakk ats puk śoläṣ pkä – ///
b6	/// m weññāmm anac lāñci tiri kä ///

Translation

a2	... ‘[if] then I had done [it] before, how much then would I have gained from that? ...
a3	... (he) says: may you teach to us the meaning of this ...

Other

b4	Der König hörte den Ton der Musik [und] fragte: "Wer hier ..." (Schmidt 1974: 377)

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 1070; TITUS: THT 1070

Miscellaneous

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 239; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 239

Translations

Carling 2000: b3 (404); Hackstein 1995: a1 (115); Schmidt 1974: b4 (377); Thomas 1952: a2 (44), b5 (45); Thomas 1981: a3 (492)

Bibliography

Carling 2000

Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

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.

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

IDP

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

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Göttingen.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

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

Thomas 1952

Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

Thomas 1981

Thomas, Werner. 1981. “Indogermanisches in der Syntax des Tocharischen: Zum Ausdruck eines Gebotes und Verbotes.” In Festschrift der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, 481–97.

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.”