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A 53

Known as:A 53; THT 686
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 53". 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-a53 (accessed 05 May 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 101.16
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Avadāna
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Jātaka/Avadāna

Object

Manuscript:A 1-54
Leaf number:///
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

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Transliteration

a1/// ñ[ä] pā ka ntu śa ri rntu ///
a2/// [k](·)o pu¯ ¯nt śā waṃ – ///
a3/// ·u [y]o ///
a4///
a5///
a6///
b1///
b2///
b3///
b4/// ·m· [t]· – ///
b5/// [s]n· gā ndhā r[ṣ]i nä śś[i] ///
b6/// ṣṣ[i] pu¯ ¯k ma rka mpa laṃ ///

Transcription

a1 /// ñ«†ä» pākäntu śarirntu ///
a2 /// (kā)k(r)opunt śāwaṃ – ///
a3 /// (nt)uyo ///
a4 ///
a5 ///
a6 ///
b1 ///
b2 ///
b3 ///
b4 /// ·m· t· – ///
b5 /// sn· gāndhārṣinäśśi ///
b6 /// ṣṣi puk märkampaläṃ(tu) ///

Translation

a1 ... parts, relics ...
a2 ... collected big ...
a3 ... by ...
b4 ...
b5 ... of the Gandhāra people ...
b6 ... all dharmas ...

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).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 686; TITUS: THT 686

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 30; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 30

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.

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.”