A 56
| Known as: | A 56; THT 689 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling (text); Fanny Meunier (translation commentary); Melanie Malzahn (translation commentary); Michaël Peyrot (translation commentary). "A 56". 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-a56 (accessed 27 Jul. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling (text); Fanny Meunier (translation commentary); Melanie Malzahn (translation commentary); Michaël Peyrot (translation commentary) |
| Date of online publication: | 2014-05-28 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 85.2 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Mūghapakkha-Jātaka |
| Passage: | b |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
| Meter: | M12; M18 |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 55-88 |
| Preceding fragment: | A 71 |
| Following fragment: | A 73 |
| 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
(continues from A 71)
| a1 | /// lyāṃ tka na¯ ¯cä yä lci kuya lte || me ne kli naṃ || cä mpa mo tra ṅktsi y[m]e |
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| a2 | /// [l]ā ñci naṃ wa tku pā ca rṣi naṃ po tlu ne : a ppra mā tya tā¯ ¯r• yä lci |
| a3 | /// ·[o] dhi sa tvā pmā ca rlā¯ ¯ts• wlā ññä kte swā jä rro ki kra ntso nāṃ ka pśi |
| a4 | /// [s]· pa lko ra¯ ¯s̝• hā kā ru ṇi¯ ¯k• tra ṅktsi pa knā smāṃ tri¯ ¯k• tka nā |
| a5 | /// l· tke o ki bra hma da tte slā¯ ¯nt• pe syä kso ra¯ ¯s̝• tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝• || vi |
| a6 | /// [o] – [c]pa klā rñä kta śśi se ā kā lyo ta lke yntu śa śmā¯ ¯s̝t• a |
| b1 | /// kupre ·e ṣa kka tsra ryu ci pka nā ñyā kā¯ ¯l• ca ṇḍā lā ñnu¯ ¯k• ne ṣkā we¯ |
| b2 | /// ṣlā¯ ¯ts• sne tu¯ ¯ṅk• nāṃ tsu¯ ¯s• ka ka rku¯ ¯nt• se po ntsāṃ ka pśi ñño |
| b3 | /// ·m·¯ ¯l• mā ryu pra ṣtaṃ kā re yo kā ko ṣtu nka ta¯ ¯r• : s̝a pna saṃ me nā¯ |
| b4 | /// kā tse ke nna tsśā waṃ ā kā lntwā ka kmu ṣe twa saṃ ā ri¯ ¯ñcä kā tka ssi : |
| b5 | /// tveṃ ka śtā lu ne yo mā cri klo pyo pe nu sne klo ppo ki sne we ñlu ne |
| b6 | /// śla tu¯ ¯ṅk• o ki tseṃ yo kā¯ ¯s• a śä nyo ri na swra ssa cpa l[k]o ra s̝[pa] |
(continues on A 73)
Transcription
(continues from A 71)
| a1 | n1n2 /// (māski) (kälkā)lyāṃ tkanac yäl ci kuyalte ॥ meneklinaṃ ॥ |
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| 1a | cämpamo träṅktsi ; yme a26σ |
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| 1b | 12σ /// |
| 1c | lāñcinäṃ watku ; pācarṣinäṃ ; potlune : |
| 1d | apprämāt yatār ; yäl-ci a3n3 5σ |
| /// (b)odhisatvāp mācar lāts wlāññäktes wājärr oki kräntsonāṃ kapśi- | |
| a4 | -(ñño)n3n4 /// s(e) pälkoräṣ hā kāruṇik träṅktsi päknāsmāṃ trik tkanā |
| a5 | n5 (klā) /// l(e)tke oki brahmadattes lānt pes yäksoräṣ träṅkäṣ ॥ vi- |
| a6 | -(śikkonaṃ) |
| 1a | 18σ /// |
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| 1b | o(pyā)c päklār ; ñäktaśśi ; se-ākālyo ; talkeyntu ; śaśmāṣt ab1(ryu)n6 |
| 1c | 18σ /// |
| 1d | kupre (n)e ṣakkats ; raryu-ci ; pkanā-ñy ākāl ; caṇḍālāñ ; nuk neṣ kāweb2(ñc)n7 |
| /// (tmä)ṣ lāts sne tuṅk nāṃtsus kakärkunt se pontsāṃ kapśiñño | |
| b3 | n8n9 /// (ak)m(a)l mā =ryu praṣtaṃ kāreyo kākoṣtu nkatär : ṣäpnasaṃ menā- |
| b4 | -(k)n9 /// kātse kenn ats śāwaṃ ākālntwā kakmu ṣet wasäṃ āriñc kātkässi : |
| b5 | /// (bodhisa)tveṃ kaś tāluneyo mācri klopyo penu sne klopp oki sne weñlune |
| b6 | /// śla tuṅk oki tseṃ-yokās aśänyo rinäs wrassac pälkoräṣ pä- |
| -(ltsäṅkāṣ) |
(continues on A 73)
Translation
(continues from A 71)
| a1 | ... (and say to him (?):) «To a (hard-)to-reach place you must go, because: || In the [tune] meneklinaṃ || You are able to speak, ... the way ... |
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| a2 | ... The royal command [and] the respect for [your] father you treat with contempt. You must go |
| a3 | (to your death (?) for this.)» ... When the mother of the Bodhisattva, the queen, saw [her] son (with) [his] beautiful body like Indra’s thunderbolt ... |
| a4 | ..., she, intending to say «O merciful one!», fainted [and] (fell) to the ground. |
| a5 | ... (Having come round again (?)), embracing the feet of king Brahmadatta like a liana, she says: || In the [tune] vi(śikkonaṃ ||) |
| a6 | «... Remember! Because of desire for a son you have made offerings to the gods for a long time. |
| b1 | ... If he is really abandoned by you, fulfill my wish [that] the Caṇḍālas will kill me first. |
| b2 | (1.)» ... Thereupon the queen, finding no favour [lit. being without affection], (says, clasping (?)) [her] fettered son with [her] whole body |
| b3 | ... : « ... face ... will perish before long, killed by the sword. In dreams the comparison |
| b4 | ... close. Completely in vain did you come in response to [our] great wishes to please our hearts. |
| b5 | ... because of [his] Bodhisattva-like consideration, as if without suffering in spite of [lit. even by] [his] mother’s suffering, he (remained) without speaking. |
| b6 | ... [But] looking affectionately, as it were, with [his] blue-coloured eyes at the people of the city, he thinks: |
(continues on A 73)
Other
| a2 | Den königlichen Befehl, das väterliche Wohlwollen verspottest du. (Schmidt 1974: 463) |
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| a4+ | ... (Wie sie den von den Caṇḍālas weggeführten Sohn(?)) sah, wurde sie, als sie. "O Mitleidiger!" sagen wollte, ohnmächtig [und] (fiel) zur Erde. (Schmidt 1974: 124) |
| a6 | Erinnere dich: Den Göttern hast du im Verlangen nach einem Sohn (lange) Opfer dargebracht. (Schmidt 1974: 375) |
| b1 | If he is really given up by you, fulfil my wish [that] the caṇḍālas will first kill me. (cf 19) (Peyrot 2013b: 224) |
| b3 | … human birth … before long he will perish, killed by the sword. (cf 19) (Peyrot 2013b: 224) |
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. | |
| This text immediately continues from A 71 and continues on A 73. |
Philological commentary
| The translation is largely based on Sieg 1952: 18-19, and Carling et al. 2009. | |
| n1 | meneklinaṃ: This tune has 4x12 syllables, rhythm 5/7. |
| n2 | Sieg's restoration cämpamo träṅktsi y(n)e(ś naṣt) '[Obwohl] (du) augenscheinlich imstande (bist) zu sprechen' (Sieg 1952: 18) is not possible: the reading y(n)e is excluded. |
| n3 | (b)odhisatvāp mācar lāts 'the mother of the Bodhisattva, the queen' is probably the subject of the abs. pälkoräṣ 'having seen'. This would mean that wlāññäktes wājärr oki kräntsonāṃ kapśi(ñño) and another ca. 18 syllables all belong to the object of pälkoräṣ, which probably ends with s(e) 'son'. Sieg 1952: 19 fills in the end of this lacuna as "(Wie sie den von den Caṇḍālas weggeführten Sohn (?)) sah". Indeed, it is likely that the queen sees her son in need, but the precise restoration remains uncertain. |
| n4 | The line originally began with the last 5 syllables of the strophe. The following is again in prose. |
| n5 | vi(śikkonaṃ): This tune has 4x18 syllables, rhythm 7/7/4. |
| n6 | nuk: A writing error for ñuk. |
| n7 | In the preceding lacuna the king has probably refused her request. |
| n8 | (ak)m(a)l: So to be read against Sieg 1952: 19, who restores (oñi c)m(o)l 'human birth'; both c and o are excluded. |
| n9 | According to Sieg 1952: 19, these lines contain a strophe with a metre of 4x15 syllables. This is impossible because in b4 we have 19 syllables without punctuation (which Sieg expects after kenn ats) and because the caesurae are wrong (both ṣäpnasaṃ menā(k) and śāwaṃ ākālntwā kakmu should rather have been 4 + 3, see Bross et al. 2015). We should also note that Sieg's metrical analysis does not square with his translation. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 32; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 32
Translations
Carling 2000: a1 (53, 84), b3 (288), b4 (353); Carling et al. 2009: b4 (159a); Knoll 1996: a1 (42, 47), a2 (40); Kölver 1965: a1 (78), a6 (25), b3 (20, 122); Meunier 2013: a2 (160), a6 b1 (176); Peyrot 2013b: b1 (224), b3 (224); Schmidt 1974: a2 (463), a4 (124), a4 a5 (124), a6 (375); Sieg 1952: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 (18-19); Thomas 1952: a1 (19); Thomas 1954: a1 (738), b4 (714); Thomas 1957: a6 (207), b1 (273), b4 (301); Thomas 1969: a1 (258), a3 (237), a4 (257); Thomas 1981: a2 (487); Thomas 1983: a1 (26)
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