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IOL Toch 109

Known as:	IOL Toch 109; H 149.317; A.317; B 43; THT 43
Cite this page as:	Michaël Peyrot; Theresa Illés. "IOL Toch 109". 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-ioltoch109 (accessed 08 Jun. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Michaël Peyrot; Theresa Illés
Date of online publication:	2016-10
Provenience
Main find spot:	Unknown
Collection:	British Library (London)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānālaṅkāra
Passage:	Book 20 (Krodhavarga)?, part X, strophes 12d20
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	verse
Object
Manuscript:	Udānālaṅkāra X
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	10.2 × 8.9 cm
Number of lines:	6

Transliteration

a1	/// – kñe nta 10 2 to tka kca wä – ///
a2	/// – : mā wa lke ñä śra no ceṃ tsa ///
a3	/// c[ai] kśā wä s̝s̝a lyi : toṃ s̝a r[m]a ///
a4	/// lnta ka rsa tsi mā yā t· to ///
a5	/// – śau mo ntse ksa tre meṃ ///
a6	/// – ṣyeṃ • śe mma tre wsa rṣ·· l· ///
b1	/// ·s· cau pa lyka : tu me [n]· ///
b2	/// śe¯ ¯m cwye ne pre 10 7 ///
b3	/// – c· mṣa mā neṃ śca : kṣā nti ke ///
b4	/// [y]· ne ṣai ce ro stmeṃ ltu – – ///
b5	/// ·[p]· pi śka nte cme la ne kau ṣtra – ///
b6	/// ña ke pau cciṃ pyā mtsa rto ma – ///

Transcription

12d	/// – kñenta 10-2
13a	totka kca wä – ///
Xx	a2/// – :
Xx	mā walke ñäś rano ceṃts a° ///
Xx	a3/// caik śāwäṣṣälyi :
Xx	toṃ ṣärma(na) ///
Xx	a4/// (kuśalamū)lnta ; karsatsi mā yāt(aṃ) ; to° ///
Xx	a5/// – śaumontse ksa tremeṃ ///
Xx	a6n1 /// – ṣyeṃ •
Xx	śem matre ws= arṣ(āk)l(o) ; ///
Xx	b1/// ·s· cau palyka :
Xx	tu me n· ///
17d	b2/// śem cwy enepre 10-7
18a	///
Xx	b3/// – c(o)m ṣamāneṃścä :
Xx	kṣānti ke° ///
Xx	b4/// y(e)ne ṣaicer ; ostmeṃ ltu(weṣo) (:)
Xx	/// b5/// (āṃt)p(i) ; piś känte cmelane ; kauṣträ – ///
Xx	b6/// ñake paucciṃ pyāmtsar tom a(rṣāklaimeṃ) ///

Translation

a4	... they will not be able to recognise the roots of merit ...
a6	... There came a snake, fierce of venom ...
b5	... in five hundred births you kill (each other).

Other

b5	In fünfhundert Geburten tötet ihr euch gegenseitig. (Schmidt 1974: 321)

Commentary

Parallel texts

*	THT 42

Remarks

*	Lines b4–b6 correspond to THT 42 a1–a4 (see the translation there).
*	According to Broomhead 1962: 176 "[w]ritten in medium ductus, and very clearly preserved, it is the left hand edge of a six line manuscript from the same Udānālaṅkāra manuscript as [ IOL Toch 136 ] in all probability."

Philological commentary

n1	This is probably the beginning of the narrative passage about the snake, continued in THT 42 a1–6 (Sieg and Siegling 1949: II, 64).

References

Online access

IDP: IOL Toch 109; TITUS: THT 43

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 63-64; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 78-79; Broomhead 1962: 176; Peyrot 2007: №109

Translations

Carling 2000: b2 (405), b5 (244); Schmidt 1974: b5 (321); Sieg and Siegling 1983: a4 (213)