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A 87

Known as:	A 87; THT 720
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "A 87". 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-a87 (accessed 06 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 99.1
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Title of the work:	Avadāna
Text genre:	Literary
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	/// sa lu ṣā
a2	/// la me yaṃ : tā rśo
a3	/// ne yo e ma mpra kte
a4	/// kā klo ta msa mtā lo
a5	/// tsi || ta mka klyu ṣu
a6	/// [n]e yā ka lyme ka lyme
b1	/// n[ä¯] [¯k] [t]m[ā] lmo¯ ¯nt
b2	/// cma¯ ¯ṅk [y]ā mte kuya
b3	/// [śā] ṣi na sbhū t·
b4	/// bhu tā ṣiṃ gra kyo
b5	/// gra[¯] [¯k] sāṃ ta kya
b6	/// śā śśi¯ ¯ma

Transcription

a1	/// salu ṣā
a2	/// lameyaṃ : tārśo
a3	/// neyo emäm prakte
a4	/// kāklo täm säm tālo
a5	/// tsi ॥ täm kaklyuṣu
a6	/// neyā kälyme kälyme
b1	/// näk tmā lmont
b2	/// c maṅk yāmte kuya
b3	/// (kle)śāṣinäs bhūt·
b4	/// bhutāṣiṃ grakyo
b5	/// grak sāṃtäk ya
b6	/// śāśśi ma…

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

	Text very fragmentary.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 720; TITUS: THT 720

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 50; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 50

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 1921a

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921a. 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.”