A 48
| Known as: | A 48; THT 681 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn. "A 48". 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-a48 (accessed 04 May 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn |
| Date of online publication: | 2013-10-04 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 67.04 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Unknown Avadāna |
| Passage: | Rājagṛha city |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 1-54 |
| Leaf number: | 100 – – |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | (– – – –) (·)k(·) tsā yä¯ ¯cä : mā ā [ṣā](·) n(·)[¯] [¯śä] ptā ñkt[ā] /// |
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| a2 | (– – – –) ki pw[r]a so¯ ¯m o ma sk(·) śaṃ ku cwra maṃ – /// |
| a3 | (– – –) ptso pa tsaṃ yä¯ ○ ¯rk ynā ñmu ne 1 /// |
| a4 | (– – –) || de va da ○ tte naṃ || mā te /// |
| a5 | (– – –) – śkā sa scu pa lkṣā ṣme ñcāṃ p[r]a /// |
| a6 | (– – – – – –) pu rpā rtā pa¯ ¯rk e /// |
| b1 | (– – – – –) ·ku [ṇ](·)¯ ¯t a k[ma] [lyo] /// |
| b2 | (– – – –) [k]mu u da yṣu li smrā caṃ kā /// |
| b3 | (– – – –) ·p· c[y]ā ○ mu ra¯ ¯s̝ s· /// |
| b4 | (– – –) [yā] ri syo kmi ○ sśa l·i t[o] ra¯ ¯s̝ /// |
| b5 | (– – – –) wä knā rā ja gri yaṃ a ñu mā ski [nā] /// |
| b6 | (– – – –) [na] [nt]o ki w(·) ṣtu tā ka¯ ¯r rā ja [gri] /// |
Transcription
| a1 | n1 – – – – (sät)k(ār)tsā yäc : mā āṣā(ṃ) n(a)ś ptāñktā /// |
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| a2 | n2 – – – (sne) kip wrasom omäsk(e){śa/nä}ṃ kuc wramaṃ (pältsäṅkāṣ) /// |
| a3 | – – – p tsopatsäṃ yärk ynāñmune 1 /// |
| a4 | – – – ॥ devadattenaṃ ॥ mā te /// |
| a5 | – – – – śkā säs cu pälkṣā ṣmeñcāṃ pra(ṣtaṃ) /// |
| a6 | – – – – – – purpār tāpärk e(näṣlune) /// |
| b1 | n3 – – – – – ·ku {ṇ/ṣ}(ä)t-akmalyo /// |
| b2 | – – – (ka)kmu uday ṣulis mrācaṃ kā(rp) /// |
| b3 | – – – – (y)p(i)c yāmuräṣ s· /// |
| b4 | n4 – – – yā ris yokmis śal (ts)itoräṣ /// /// |
| b5 | – – (tämne) wäknā rājagriyaṃ añumāski nā(ṃtsu) /// |
| b6 | n5 – – – – nant oki w(a)ṣtu tākar rājagri(yaṃ) /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... you go in the air. You are not worthy (to) ... by the Buddha lord ... |
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| a2 | ... a living being (without) shame, about which thing (does it conceive) evil? ... |
| a3 | ... deep homage [and] respect. |
| a4 | ... In [the tune] Devadatta: "Is it not ...? ... |
| a5 | ... also this one burnt you in the summer ti(me) ... |
| a6 | ... right now accept the in(struction)! ... |
| b1 | ... with a depressed face ... |
| b2 | ... having gone [to] ... he descen(ded) onto the top of the mountain Udaya ... |
| b3 | ... having filled ... before ... |
| b4 | ... went to the cities, having touched the threshold of the door ... |
| b4+ | ... being amazed in this Rājagṛha [city] in that way ... |
| b6 | ... the houses were ... as it were in the Rājagṛha [city] ... |
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. | |
| Left part of the leaf, the margin is not preserved, but traces of the leaf number 1xx are seen inside the string hole space on the verso side written by a different hand. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | Siegling proposed the restoration (sät)k(ār)tsā in his notes p. 27 on the basis of A 217 b3. |
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| n2 | The original text most likely had omäskenäṃ with the fremdzeichen ‹na›, since this is a rare sign, the scribe miscopied it taking it for ‹śa›; ptāñktā is a metrically reduced form of perl.sg. ptāñäktā. The little piece at the end of the line has been wrongly glued here. The rest of the original sign before this is compatible with the reading ma or pa. |
| n3 | The edition in Sieg and Siegling 1921 proposed to read [ṣa]t\ akmalyo, which would be supported by A 111 b3, A 153 a2 and A 175 a5. The phrase ṣät-akmalyo is recorded in Poucha 1955: 339. But this reading is impossible in the manuscript, which rather shows [ṇa]. This does not allow for a plausible interpretation. The most likely hypothesis, then, is that it was miscopied from ṣat. |
| n4 | Siegling in his notes restored to (ts)itoräṣ; likewise Couvreur 1956: 77. |
| n5 | nant is the end of an adjective, fem.nom.pl. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 27; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 27
Translations
Carling 2000: b2 (124), b5 (251); Hackstein 1995: a5 (112); Thomas 1990: b4 (39)
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.
Couvreur, Walter. 1956. “Bemerkungen zu Pavel Pouchas Thesaurus linguae tocharicae dialecti A.” La Nouvelle Clio 7–8, 1955–56: 67–98.
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.
Poucha, Pavel. 1955. Thesaurus Linguae Tocharicae Dialecti A. Praha: Státní Pedagogické Nakladatelství.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.
Thomas, Werner. 1990. Tocharische Maitreya-Parallelen aus Hami. Vol. 1. SbWGF. Stuttgart: Steiner.
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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