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A 453

Known as:A 453; THT 1087
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 453". 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-a453 (accessed 13 Dec. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Kocho
Expedition code:T I D 2
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:Skt.; TA
Script:late

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Manuscript:A 452-456
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Images

Transliteration

a1/// [kṣ]· nā¯ ¯s wä rta ntwaṃ • ma nāṃ [g]· ///
a2/// lo bhā bhi bhū tā • ra pu rñe ///
a3/// jñā ne kṛ tā vi – – – straṃ ///
a4/// [ma] ntu • śra ma ne nai va gau ta me na vy· ///
a5/// sa ñyā t[m]a ṣtā¯ ¯k • pra tya nu bh· ///
b1/// a nu ba ddhā • nā pa¯ ¯k klā p·ā ///
b2/// ṣṭa bdha • lyu tā¯ ¯r a ta ṅka¯ ¯cä klo ///
b3/// ·ā nya te • pa twä[¯] [¯s̝] – – – śrā ///
b4/// lyi ka ta¯ ¯r • sta ni tvā • ñ· ///
b5/// [va] ti ṣta nte • ma ska ntra • a

Transcription

a1/// k ṣ·nās wärtäntwaṃmanāṃg· ///
a2/// lobhābhibhūtārapurñe ///
a3/// jñāne kṛtā vi – – – straṃ ///
a4/// mäntuśramanenaiva gautamena vy· ///
a5/// sañyā tmäṣ tākpratyanubh· ///
b1/// anubaddhānāpak klāp· ā ///
b2/// (atyava)ṣṭabdhalyutār atäṅkac klo ///
b3/// ·ānyatepätwäṣ – – – śrā ///
b4n1 /// (śäktā)lyi katarstanitvāñ· ///
b5/// vatiṣtantemäskanträa

Translation

b2very much brought to a hold

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

n1For the restoration (śäktā)lyi, cf. Siegling's personal copy of Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 245. The collocation of a form of "seed" and "they strewed" also occurs in A 221 b5.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1087; TITUS: THT 1087

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 245; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 245

Bibliography

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.

IDP

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

Sieg and Siegling 1921

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

Sieg and Siegling 1921

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.

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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.