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IOL Toch 150

Known as:IOL Toch 150; H 149.add.60; B.60
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 150". 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-ioltoch150 (accessed 24 Jun. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Michaël Peyrot

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:pratihārya
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Buddha legend

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):6.4 × 6.4 cm
Number of lines:5

Images

Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project and the British Library.

Transliteration

a1/// – kwā po [y]ś· ññ· ṣṣ[e] pa ·r· ///
a2/// ññ· we ka pū dñä kte ntse – ///
a3/// se no a ptsa ra – [r]·ṃ ·e – ///
a4/// ·ka ntro lo ///
b1/// ·t· s̝a [y]e ///
b2/// ·c· wi ka pu dñä – (–) – ///
b3/// mta ke na s̝ca wä rsa ·[w]a ///
b4/// cä rka swā ñ·ai po kai yṣ[ṣ]ai ///
b5/// – ///

Transcription

a1/// – kwā poyś(i)ññ(e)ṣṣe pa ·r· ///
a2/// °ññ(e) wekä pūdñäktentse – ///
a3/// se no aptsara(da)r(śa)ṃ(n)e ///
a4/// ·ka ntro lo ///
b1/// ·t· ṣä ye ///
b2/// ·c· wika pudñä(kte) – – ///
b3/// °mtä kenäṣcä wärsa ·wa ///
b4/// cärka swāñ(c)ai pokaiyṣṣai ///
b5/// – ///

Commentary

Remarks

*According to Broomhead 1962: 290 "[w]ritten in medium ductus and very clearly preserved, middle part of a four line manuscript".

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008A1
Malzahn 2007aA4
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: IOL Toch 150

Edition

Peyrot 2007: №150; Broomhead 1962: 290

Bibliography

Broomhead 1962

Broomhead, J.W. 1962. “A textual edition of the British Hoernle, Stein and Weber Kuchean manuscripts. With transliteration, translation, grammatical commentary and vocabulary. I = Edition.” PhD, Cambridge: Trinity College.

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Malzahn 2007a

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007a. “The most archaic manuscripts of Tocharian B and the varieties of the Tocharian B language.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 255–97. Heidelberg: Winter.

Peyrot 2007

Peyrot, Michaël. 2007. “An edition of the Tocharian fragments IOL Toch 1 – IOL Toch 822 in the India Office Library.” International Dunhuang Project. 2007. http://idp.bl.uk/database/oo_cat.a4d?shortref=Peyrot_2007.

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Tamai 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.