A 45
| Known as: | A 45; THT 678 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Fanny Meunier; Michaël Peyrot. "A 45". 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-a45 (accessed 05 May 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Fanny Meunier; Michaël Peyrot |
| Date of online publication: | 2013-10-04 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 69.28 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Avadāna |
| Passage: | Pretas and drought |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
| Verse/Prose: | prose |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 1-54 |
| Leaf number: | /// |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | (–) – e¯ ¯l e ssi ā rtaṃ tra – /// |
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| a2 | ·w· rpr· tā śśi śä¯ ¯l ā ñcā [l]· /// |
| a3 | kā ru ṇi¯ ¯k : ptā ñka ○ /// |
| a4 | lpi mtra : kā tsa cwä ○ /// |
| a5 | mo di nyā mu«¯» «¯»«nt» pā ta ryo wra [ṣ]·ā /// |
| a6 | pu¯ ¯k pre tā śśi lkā lā ā /// |
| b1 | ñka tka ṣṣi kla noṃ tsāṃ ci ñcä /// |
| b2 | stā pa¯ ¯rk «ga»«¯» «¯»«ṅk» ā pa ṣwä rśla¯ ¯k ś[k]aṃ /// |
| b3 | ¯s̝ ta myo a sa swä rmo ○ /// |
| b4 | sne kri mā śkaṃ tā pa¯ ¯rk ○ /// |
| b5 | ·[ä] ṣnā kā¯ ¯ñä sā mu dra¯ ¯cä [y]· /// |
| b6 | – ·ta ta mnu ma¯ ¯nt wä knā || – /// |
Transcription
| a1 | – – el essi ārtaṃträ – /// |
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| a2 | · w(ä)r pr(e)tāśśi śäl āñcāl(yī) (tsaränyo) /// |
| a3 | kāruṇik : ptāñkä(t) /// (kä)- |
| a4 | -lpimträ : kātsac wä /// (anu)- |
| a5 | -modinn1 yāmunt pātäryo wräṣ (p)ā(pśunt) /// |
| a6 | puk pretāśśi lkālā ā /// (ptā)- |
| b1 | -ñkätn2 käṣṣi klanoṃtsāṃ ciñcä(ryāṃ) /// |
| b2 | n3 s tāpärk gaṅk āpäṣ wär śla-k śkaṃ /// |
| b3 | ṣ tämyo asäs wär mo /// |
| b4 | sne kri mā śkaṃ tāpärk /// |
| b5 | ·äṣ nākāñ sāmudrac y(eñc) /// |
| b6 | n4 – ·t«†ä» täm nu mänt wäknā ॥ – /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... they will approve of giving gift[s] ... |
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| a2 | ... he brought water to the Pretas, [and] with both hands in añjali ... |
| a3 | ... compassionate one. The Buddha ... |
| a3+ | ... may we obtain ... |
| a4 | Towards the belly ... |
| a4+ | ... having approved ... with the alms-bowl they begged (?) from the water ... |
| a6 | ... by the sight of all Pretas ... |
| a6+ | ... the Buddha, the teacher, (with) a resounding, lovely (voice) ... |
| b2 | ... Now at the same time also water from the Gaṅgā river ... |
| b3 | ... Thus the water dried up ... |
| b4 | ... Without choice neither now ... |
| b5 | ... from the (rivers?) the Nāgas went (?) to the ocean. |
| b6 | ... Just now in that way ... |
Commentary
Remarks
| Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009. | |
| 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). |
Philological commentary
| n1 | nt\: akṣara added later; addition marked with a cross above the line. |
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| n2 | klanoṃtsāṃ ciñcä(ryāṃ): cf. A 313 a5 klanoṃntsāṃ ciñcäryāṃ brahmaswar waśenyo. |
| n3 | gaṅk\: akṣaras added later; addition marked with a cross above the line. |
| n4 | mänt wäknā: probably followed by an elaboration in verse. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 26; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 26
Translations
Carling 2000: b5 (133); Thomas 1954: a1 (721)
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.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.
Thomas, Werner. 1954. “Die Infinitive im Tocharischen.” In Asiatica. Festschrift Friedrich Weller. Zum 65. Geburtstag, gewidmet von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern, edited by Johannes Schubert and Ulrich Schneider, 701–64. Leipzig: 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.”
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