A 436
| Known as: | A 436; THT 1070 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "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 27 Jul. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation) |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kocho |
| Expedition code: | T I D 27 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
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· /// |
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| 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· /// |
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| 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 weññā-mm anac lāñci tiri kä /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... he asked (his father) for agreement. He exited home. This way... |
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| a2 | ... my..., when I had done it earlier, how much would I then have obtained? ... |
| a3 | ... the (Bodhisattva) says: May you tell us the meaning of it. Buddha says: Through this... |
| a4 | ... of the kalpas, too... (that) time, the ninety first... |
| b2 | ... householders... were the borough-dwellers... |
| b3 | ... they did not hear... ... having engaged in pleasure and bliss, mixed (=drunk) with brandy... |
| b4 | ... having done... he turned back. The king heard a musical tone. He asked: Who... |
| b5 | ... If I had not obtained glory, ... certainly without all life... |
| b6 | ... said to them: The royal way... |
Other
| b4 | Der König hörte den Ton der Musik [und] fragte: "Wer hier ..." (Schmidt 1974: 377) |
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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 1070; TITUS: THT 1070
Miscellaneous
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 239; Sieg and Siegling 1921 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, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
“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. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
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.
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.
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