A 88
| Known as: | A 88; THT 721 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 88". 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-a88 (accessed 13 Feb. 2026). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation) |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 101.04 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | late |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Ṣaḍdanta-Jātaka |
| Passage: | b |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 55-88 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// lk· tsp· lka· t·¯ ¯m o |
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| a2 | /// o ṅka lmā śśi wä |
| a3 | /// ñä ā s̝ta¯ ¯r lyu ka la |
| a4 | /// l· e se¯ ¯ñcä • tma¯ ¯s̝ bo |
| a5 | /// [t]ā [k]·ā¯ ¯yä ā yi¯ ¯m • |
| a6 | /// |
| b2 | /// s· tk· rṣṭā ma ntu : |
| b3 | /// || ā lyä kyāṃ pra ṣṭaṃ |
| b4 | /// [c]i ñcri o ppa lpā ka |
| b5 | /// ṅka lmeṃ wä¯ ¯l na |
| b6 | /// l·· ywā rckā : mā na sñä |
Transcription
| a1 | /// lk·ts p· lka·t· m o |
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| a2 | /// oṅkälmāśśi wä¬ |
| a3 | ¬(l) /// ñ{†ä} āṣtär lyu kala |
| a4 | /// l· eseñc • tmäṣ bo |
| a5 | /// tāk·āy āyim • |
| a6 | /// |
| b2 | /// s(a)tk(ā)r ṣṭāmäntu : |
| b3 | /// ॥ ālyäkyāṃ praṣṭaṃ |
| b4 | /// ciñcri oppal pākä¬ |
| b5 | ¬(r) (tāṣ) /// (o)ṅkälmeṃ wäl na |
| b6 | /// l·· ywārckā : mā nas ñä |
Translation
| a2+ | ... the king of elephants... |
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| a3+ | ... pure... sent... |
| a4 | ... they give... |
| a4+ | Then... |
| a5 | ... I would give... |
| a5+ | ... the trees... |
| b3+ | Another time... |
| b4+ | If the lovely lotus appears... |
| b5+ | The king of the elephants... |
| b6 | ... within... not... |
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
| Ms very fragmentary. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 50; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 50
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Personal annotated copy of Wilhelm Siegling. Scanned by Douglas Q. Adams with the technical assistance of Michael Tarabulski and Kevin Dobbins. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.
Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.
