A 8
| Known as: | A 8; THT 641 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling. "A 8". 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-a8 (accessed 06 Oct. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 72.08 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Puṇyavantajātaka |
| Passage: | h |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
| Meter: | 5555 (1x), 444343 (1x), 55 (1x), 4443 (1x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 1-54 |
| Preceding fragment: | A 7 |
| Following fragment: | A 9 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
Images from titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de by courtesy of the Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS).
Transliteration
(continues from A 7)
| a1 | ·n·¯ ¯k ka pśñaṃ mska ta rpaṃ hi¯ ¯śtä tra¯ ¯k e ṅka¯ ¯l : 1 || sa swra mnu yaṃ trā cā reṃ ka ṣṣi nā ṣñi a mo kaṃ o – |
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| a2 | śśu ne nṣa cla la kṣu tā¯ ¯k kya lmā na ṣpe nu ca mi ṣñi a mo¯ ¯k lkā tsi ā yi¯ ¯m tma¯ ¯s̝ pe ka¯ ¯nt ymā – |
| a3 | ¯r lyu wra¯ ¯m ro te yä ntu tsko ra¯ ¯s̝ tā ma¯ ¯k wṣe po ṣṣā ṣñi ā ñcä¯ ¯m sa sru ku¯ ¯nt kñu [k]· (–) |
| a4 | rpyo ṣpi na¯ ¯cä la ṅkmāṃ pe ka tta mnu ma¯ ¯nt wä knā || ṣa ḍa¯ ¯p de va da tte naṃ || ywo¯ ¯nt la¯ ¯p tsru y[r]e – |
| a5 | – – a śäṃ to¯ ¯nt yo ṣmo¯ ¯s̝ ywo¯ ¯nt lyme nyo ṣu ṅka ṣṣa na¯ ¯s ymāṃ : la ṅmāṃ tsa raṃ pe yu ā rta¯ ¯k – |
| a6 | – – kā tsyo kñu kaṃ spa¯ ¯rp ṣpi na cla ṅmāṃ sa sru ku¯ ¯nt : wsi ya¯ ¯ts ka pśi ññā na sko¯ ¯nt – – |
| lf | 70 2 |
| b1 | – – – śyo kyā ñcä¯ ¯m pā pe ku ra¯ ¯s̝ kā ma tlyu wra¯ ¯m ka¯ ¯lk e lā : 1 || tma¯ ¯s̝ ksa ryaṃ trā cā r· – – |
| b2 | – na¯ ¯cä ka kmu ra¯ ¯s̝ pa lkā ttā¯ ¯m ya nta rṣi nāṃ śo mi nāṃ pka¯ ¯nt pka¯ ¯nt kā klo sāṃ pa lkā¯ ¯s śkaṃ ca (–) |
| b3 | ka ntāṃ sa sru ku¯ ¯nt ṣpi na cla ṅmāṃ tma¯ ¯s̝ wi yo ki wa kcä¯ ¯rk klo pa su nāṃ tsu tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ hā k(·) |
| b4 | rya ppā kā rya¯ ¯p • tma¯ ¯s̝ wa s̝ka¯ ¯rs vā rtskā¯ ¯ñä ype ṣi ñi wra sa¯ ¯ñä mā kśo ṣi kā kro pu – (–) |
| b5 | ¯ñcä ku stā¯ ¯k klo pa su nāṃ tsu yaṃ trā cā re tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ pa lkā¯ ¯cä nā cki ñi klo¯ ¯p ca¯ ¯s̝ || śu ri (– –) |
| b6 | || pe ka ntā śśi ka ṣṣi śśi ka ṣṣi pe ka¯ ¯nt ñi na ṣu : lo ki¯ ¯t ye ṣñi ya nta rṣi śo miṃ ca mi spa – |
(continues on A 9)
Transcription
(continues from A 7)
| lf | 70-2 |
| 1d | (tä)a1(m)n(e-)k kapśñaṃ mskatär paṃ ; hiśt trak eṅkäl : 1 ॥ |
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| 1a | ywont lap tsru yre(ki) ; a5– – aśäṃ tont ; yoṣmoṣ ywont lymenyo ; ṣuṅkäṣṣ anas ymāṃ : |
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| 1b | läṅmāṃ tsaräṃ ; peyu ārtak ; (tä)a6(rkosāṃ) kātsyo ; kñukaṃ sparp ; ṣpinac läṅmāṃ ; sasrukunt : |
| 1c | wsi yats kapśiññā ; näskont – – b1– – 3σ |
| 1d | (yne)śy oky āñcäm ; pāpekuräṣ ; kāmat lyu wram ; kälk elā : 1 ॥ |
| 1a | pekäntāśśi ; käṣṣiśśi ; käṣṣi pekant ; ñi naṣu : |
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| 1b | lokit yeṣ-ñi ; yantärṣi ; śomiṃ cami ; spa(ktāṃ) |
(continues on A 9)
Translation
(continues from A 7)
| a1 | (just) so it is to the [living] body in turn. Fie, blind passion! |
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| a1+ | But this thing has been shown to me by the master mechanic as a skill in his own craft. |
| a2 | Why should I not let him see my own art as well? |
| a2+ | Then the painter quickly produced a brush(?) and ink(?) and in the same night as one killed, with a rope around his neck, hanging on a nail, he painted himself opposite(?) the door. |
| a4 | But how so? || In the Ṣ.-tune: || The head tilted a little -- |
| a5 | the eyes set, with the protruding lips (lit. stretched towards the front) the [last] sighs going out of the throat, hands and feet hanging down, |
| a5+ | with the lascivious lower abdomen, |
| a6 | a rope around his neck, hanging on a nail (like one) killed, the golden skin of his body having become pale |
| b1 | thus he painted himself as if real, took his painting tools and went under cover. |
| b1+ | When in the morning the mechanic came to the painter, he saw the mechanical girl fallen apart |
| b2+ | and he [also] saw the painter as a self-killed one. |
| b3 | Thereupon he raised his voice as one distraught, being depressed he said: |
| b3+ | oh what a pity, what a pity! |
| b4+ | Thereupon soon the neighbouring people of the land and much folk gathered and they say: |
| b5 | Who was that? Depressed, the mechanic says: behold, you gentlemen, this my misfortune! |
| b5+ | || In the Ś.-tune: || |
| b6 | Of the master painters the master of painters,my friend(?), came as a guest, my artificial girl attended to him, |
(continues on A 9)
Other
| a2+ | Darauf zog der Maler sehr schnell [wtl. schnell schnell] Palette(?) [und] Farben hervor und malte noch in derselben Nacht sich selbst als Getöteten an die Wand mit einem Strick (um) den Hals, an einem Haken(?) hängend. (Schmidt 1974: 314-5) |
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| a6+ | ... einen Strick um den Hals, an einem Haken(?) hängend als Getöteten, ... [so] sich selbst wie leibhaftig gemalt habend/als er sich wie leibhaftig gemalt hatte, nahm er seine Palette(?) [und] ging hinaus(?). (Schmidt 1974: 315, fn. 2, 398-90) |
| b1+ | Als dann morgens der Mechaniker zum Maler kam, sah er das künstliche Mädchen auseinandergefallen und sah [auch] den Maler als [Selbst]-getöteten an einem Haken(?) hängend. (Schmidt 1974: 188) |
| b5+ | Sehet, [ihr] Herren, dieses mein Unglück! Von den Malermeistern der Malermeister, mein Freund, kam als Gast, mein künstliches Mädchen versah ihm den Dienst. Aus Liebe wohl berührte er das Mädchen, der Mechanismus zerbrach, [und] aus Scham darüber [wtl. aus d[ies]er Scham] tötete sich der Maler selbst, er hängt an einem Haken(?), sehet, [ihr] Guten! (Schmidt 1974: 189-90) |
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
| The translation is largely based on Sieg 1944: 11-12, and Carling et al. 2009. | |
| n1 | The tune has a metre of 20-22-10-15 syllables, the rhythm is 5/5/5/5, 8/7/7, 5/5 and 8/7, respectively. |
| n2 | Restoration yre(ki) according to Burlak and Itkin 2010: 342-343 after TEB II: 22, fn. 5. |
| n3 | The tune has 4x14 syllables, rhythm 7/7. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 7-8; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 7, p. 8
Translations
Carling 2000: a3 (200), a3 a4 (57, 74, 180), a6 (74, 200, 218), b3 (74); Carling 2012: a2 (63), a6 (64), b6 A 9 a1 (64); Hackstein 1995: a2 (252), a2 a3 (141); Lane 1947: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 (33ff); Meunier 2013: b6 A 9 a1 (168); Peyrot 2013b: a1; Schmidt 1974: a2 a3 a4 (314f), a2 a3 a4 (314-5), a6 b1 (315 n.2), a6 b1 (315, fn. 2, 398-90), b1 (398f), b1 b2 b3 (188), b5 b6 A 9 a1 (189f), b5 b6 A 9 a1 (189-90); Sieg 1944: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 (11); Thomas 1954: a2 (726); Thomas 1957: a1 a2 (288), a2 a3 a4 (84), b1 b2 b3 (84), b4 b5 (239), b6 A 9 a1 (41); Thomas 1967: a5 a6 (270); Thomas 1969c: a3 a4 (201); Thomas 1970: a4 a5 (266); Thomas 1973: b5 (79)
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