A 59
| Known as: | A 59; THT 692 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn. "A 59". 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-a59 (accessed 15 Sep. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn |
| Date of online publication: | 2014-05-29 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 85.5 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Unmādayantī-Jātaka |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
| Meter: | 444 (4x); 4343 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 55-88 |
| 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 | /// kli sṣiṃ sa rkko ki tā ka rñä kcyā¯ ¯ñä tka ñi : 2 kra¯ ¯nt• ma rka mpa lko tru ma |
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| a2 | /// mtā¯ ¯k• : ma rka mpa lṣāṃ ytā raṃ lyu tā rwa ñi ka lpā¯ ¯t• : mā sa¯ ¯m• ka ka |
| a3 | /// ntā¯ ¯p• ki ri ṭa va tstse swa¯ ¯s̝t lmo ntā¯ ¯p• ckā ca¯ ¯r• śri ñka tto ki a ra |
| a4 | /// – a ptsa rro ki kule wā saṃ • lyu tā rme ma¯ ¯s̝• a ra mpā tṣiṃ ci ñcro ne |
| a5 | /// [ñ]· mi ynā¯ ¯ñm• yā mu sśo miṃ ṣe¯ ¯s̝• te mi śkaṃ sa spu¯ ¯k• kule wā sa¯ ¯s̝• |
| a6 | /// lkā lyāṃ tka nā ko spre nne : ka kmu stā ki s̝ta preṃ sa¯ ¯m• te mya ra mpā |
| b1 | /// pe ptsa¯ ¯k• ypā mā pe nu wā sklu ne ypā tka pśi ññi¯ ¯s• : 1 || tma¯ ¯k• ṣu |
| b2 | /// ño mtsā ntaṃ || tma¯ ¯s̝• te mi pā ca rca mwra mca mi lā¯ ¯nt• klyo ssi yā ma¯ |
| b3 | /// pa¯ ¯rk• ṣñi wä rpā lu ne yaṃ pa¯ ¯t• ā ssi ā lu e lu ne yaṃ pa¯ ¯t• nā |
| b4 | /// śśi kule ñci nā sṣo tre yä ntu ka rso ñcä sprā mnā swo ta¯ ¯k• pi ccä mplu |
| b5 | /// mā ri twā lyi || tma s̝sa¯ ¯m• śo mi ne pā ca rwa¯ ¯s̝t lmo ce sa¯ ¯m• brā mnā |
| b6 | /// mnā śśi śwā tsi pā kpyā¯ ¯m• || ta mne tā ṣwe wñu ra¯ ¯s̝• tma¯ ¯s̝• u nmā [da] ya |
Transcription
| 2d | a1n1 /// – klisṣiṃ sarkk ; oki tākar ; ñäkcyāñ tkañi : 2 |
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| 3a | krant märkampal ; kotrumäa2(nt) – 5σ |
| 3b | 11σ /// …m tāk : |
| 3c | märkampalṣāṃ ; ytāraṃ lyutār ; wañi kälpāt : |
| 3d | mā säm kakäa3n2(l) ; 8σ |
| /// (neṣo)ntāp kiriṭavatstses waṣt lmontāp ckācar śri ñkätt oki arä- | |
| a4 | -n3(mpātyo) (kaknus) /// – aptsarr oki kulewāsaṃ • lyutār memaṣ arämpātṣiṃ ciñcrone- |
| a5 | -n4(yaśśäl) (yetus) /// (kuleñci) ñ(e)mi ynāñm yāmus śomiṃ ṣeṣ temi śkaṃ säs puk kulewāsäṣ |
| a6 |
| 1a | 7σ /// ; lkālyāṃ tkanā ; kosprenne : |
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| 1b | kakmus tākiṣ ; täpreṃ säm ; temy arämpāb1n5(t) ; 3σ |
| 1c | 14σ |
| 1d | /// (mā) pe ptsäk ypā ; mā penu ; wāsklune ypāt ; kapśiññis : 1 ॥ |
| tm-äk ṣu- | |
| b2 | -n6(rmaṣ) /// ñom tsānt-äṃ ॥ tmäṣ temi pācar cam wram cami lānt klyossi yāmä- |
| b3 | -(s) /// (tā)pärk ṣñi wärpāluneyaṃ pat āssi ālu eluneyaṃ pat nā- |
| b4 | -n7(täk) (yärm) /// (tmäṣ) (wäl) (puk) (ypeyäntwā)śśi kuleñcinās ṣotreyäntu kärsoñcäs prāmnās wotäk pic cämplu- |
| b5 | -n8(mäṣ) /// (ritwālyi) (epe) mā ritwālyi ॥ tmäṣ säm śomine pācar waṣt lmo cesäm brāmnā- |
| b6 | -n9(s) /// (brā)mnāśśi śwātsi pāk pyām ॥ tämne tāṣ wewñuräṣ tmäṣ unmādaya- |
| -(ntī) |
Translation
| a1 | ... the heavenly earths were like a flight of step[s]. 2. |
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| a1+ | (Seeing the salvation of the world) in following the good Law ... |
| a2 | ... he was. In the path of the Law he found extreme joy. |
| a2+ | He could not bear ... the (lead)er (of the citizens), |
| a3+ | the householder Kirīṭavatsa, had a daughter [lit. to K. was a daughter] (provided with) beauty like the goddess Śrī ... (being a second one) among Apsaras women, exceedingly (equipped with) loveliness of beauty ... [and] she was a girl honoured as a pearl (of women). |
| a5+ | To her also, in comparison with all [other] women ... |
| a6 | ... as often as she would come to a place [where she can be] seen, so often [did] the one [admiring] her beauty ... |
| b1 | ... he did not blink [lit. make even the wink of an eye], nor did he make a movement with his body. 1. |
| b1+ | For exactly this re(ason) ([her] relatives) gave her the name (Unmādayantī). |
| b2+ | Thereupon her father let hear the king of this matter. |
| b3+ | ... Presently [upon] the lord [is] (the judgment) about either taking [her as wife] for himself or giving [her] up to others |
| b4 | ... (Thereupon the king) commanded the Brahmins of (all lands), who were knowledgeable about the marks of woman, [saying]: |
| b4+ | Come here, ye skilled ones! |
| b5 | ... (if she is suitable for me or if) she [is] not suitable. |
| b5+ | Thereupon the girl’s father, this householder, (having invited) the Brahmins ... |
| b6 | ... (let the Brahmins into his house, he said to Unmādayantī: My dear,) distribute (by yourself) to the Brahmins portions to eat!" Having said “So it will be”, then Unmādayantī (went away) ... |
Other
| a2 | Auf dem Pfade des Gesetzes fand er überaus Gefallen. (Schmidt 1974: 196) |
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| a6+ | ... wie oft sie in das Blickfeld [jemandes] gekommen war, so oft machte der, (von) ihrer Gestalt (gefesselt(?)), ... (weder) ein Augenblinzeln, noch auch machte er eine Bewegung des Körpers. (Schmidt 1974: 347) |
| b1+ | (Aus) eben dem Gru(nde) ... legten ihr (die Angehörigen) den Namen (Unmādayantī) bei. (Schmidt 1974: 478) |
| b6 | «Give the brahmins a piece of the food!» Having said, «so it will be!», Unmādayantī … (Peyrot 2013b: 225) |
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). |
Linguistic commentary
| This manuscript has consistent spelling of double virāma (i.e. with stroke and dot) with the notable exception of waṣt in the phrase waṣt lmo, which is in both occasions spelled without virāma dot. |
Philological commentary
| The translation is largely based on Sieg 1952: 42-43, and Carling et al. 2009. | |
| The Tocharian version is remarkably close to the Sanskrit text in Āryaśūra's Jātakamālā (cf. Kern 1981: 80ff.). | |
| n1 | The tune here has 4x12 syllables, rhythm 4/4/4. (–)klisṣiṃ sark corresponds to Skt. sopānamālā 'winding stairs'. Cf. Kern 1981: 80, line 22 and 81, verse 3. |
| n2 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 3. |
| n3 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 4. Note that the dot corresponds to the end of a pāda in the Sanskrit original even though the Tocharian text is in prose. |
| n4 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 5. There is no direct parallel in the Sanskrit original; the meter has 4x14 syllables, rhythm 7/7. |
| n5 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 6. |
| n6 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 8-9. |
| n7 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 10. |
| n8 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 12-13. |
| n9 | Cf. Kern 1981: 81, line 13-14. Note that the Sanskrit original has the more general term pariveṣayati 'offer/serve food'. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 34; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 34
Translations
Carling 2000: a2 (94), a4 (236); Hackstein 1995: b1 (198); Kölver 1965: a2 (126), a3 (97), b3 (130); Peyrot 2013b: b6 (225); Schmidt 1974: a2 (196), a6 b1 (347), b1 b2 (478); Sieg 1952: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 (41-43); Thomas 1952: b5 (32); Thomas 1954: b2 (727), b6 (758); Thomas 1957: a3 a4 a5 (34), a6 b1 (64), b1 b2 (89), b4 (89); Thomas 1969: a3 a4 (239), a6 (258); Thomas 1970a: a6 b1 (457); Thomas 1983: a6 b1 (30); Thomas 1989: a2 (27), a3 a4 a5 (30), a6 b1 (27), b2 (27), b5 (27)
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