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A 88

Known as:A 88; THT 721
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz. "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 05 May 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz

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

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Transliteration

a1/// lk· tsp· lka· t·¯ ¯m o
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///
b1///
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
a2 /// oṅkälmāśśi wä-
a3 -(l) /// ñ«†ä» āṣtär lyu kala
a4 /// l· eseñctmäṣ bo
a5 /// tāk·āy āyim
a6 ///
b1 ///
b2 /// s(a)tk(ā)r ṣṭāmäntu :
b3 /// ॥ ālyäkyāṃ praṣṭaṃ
b4 /// ciñcri oppal pākä-
b5 -(r) (tāṣ) /// (o)ṅkälmeṃ wäl na
b6 /// l·· ywārckā : nas ñä

Translation

a2+ ... the king of elephants...
a3+ ... pure... sent...
a4 ... they give...
a4+ Then...
a5 ... I would give...
a6+ ... 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

IDP: THT 721; TITUS: THT 721

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 50; Sieg and Siegling 1921 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 1921

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