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IOL Toch 233

Known as:	IOL Toch 233; IOL Toch 233 = H add.149.109; U1; IOL Toch 368 = D 09
Cite this page as:	Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 233". 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-ioltoch233 (accessed 10 May 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Michaël Peyrot
Provenience
Main find spot:	Unknown
Collection:	British Library (London)
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānavarga
Passage:	1.27d-1.37a
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	IOL Toch 233-368
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	6.2 × 11.4 cm
Number of lines:	5

Transliteration

a1	/// – ṣṣ[e] ttse mā o la ṅka [w]i ka ṣlyi 20 7 jī rya nti [v]· ///
a2	/// [k]·[s]· tsa ññe yä n·ā s̝s̝aṃ • sa tā ntu dha rmo na ja rā [m]· ///
a3	/// [8] dhi k[t]vā ma stu ja re grā mye • hi śtwe [tā] ko yta ktsai ///
a4	/// sa pa lsko ntse wī na e re pa – (– –) ·ā [ya] ///
a5	/// – ///
b4	/// [s]n· sklo ka • ma ra ṇāṃ taṃ hi [j]· (– –) ·m· [s]ru k· – ///
b5	/// [śa] ṅke • śu nyo vya pe ta vi jñā na ḥ ai ka rya pa [s]· ///
b6	/// [v]a tā pū ti n· [sa] dā • tsna mñai sa pa pi yai sa ///
b7	/// – 6 a ne na pū ti ·[ā] ye na • tā sa pa ·i ///

Transcription

a1	n1n2 /// (śai)ṣṣettse mā olaṅkä wikäṣlyi 20-7

*	jīryanti v(ai)

*	///
a2	n3 /// k(t)s(ai)tsäññe yän(m)āṣṣäṃ •

*	satān tu dharmo na jarām · ·

*	///
a3	n4n5 /// (20-)8

*	dhik tvām astu jare grāmye

*	• hiś twe tākoytä ktsai(tsäññe) ///
a4	n6n7 /// (taikne)sa pälskontse wīna erepa(te) (•)

*	(tvay)ā ya(d)

*	///
a5	/// – ///
b4	n8n9 /// sn(ai) sklokä •

*	maraṇāṃtaṃ hi j(īvita)m

*	sruk(alñe) ///
b5	n10 /// (lya)śä(ṃ) ṅke •

*	śunyo vyapetavijñānaḥ

*	aikarya päs(t) ///
b6	n11 ///

*	(sra)vatā pūtin(ā) sadā

*	• tsnamñaisa päpiyaisa ///
b7	n12 /// (30-)6

*	anena pūti(k)āyena

*	• tāsa pä(p)i(yai) ///

Translation

a1	[TB] for the ordinary, desires are not easy to keep away. [SKT] Truly (the very variegated royal chariots) get old.
a2	[TB] (and likewise the body) reaches old age. [SKT] but the law of the virtuous does not reach old age
a3	[SKT] Shame be upon you, vulgar old age! [TB] Shame be upon you, vulgar old age!
a4	[TB] thus a face gratifying to the mind [SKT] is destroyed by you
b4	[TB] (stinking it will) without doubt (fall apart) [SKT] for life has death as its end [TB] (for life has) death (as its end)
b5	[TB] [this body] will lie on the earth [SKT] empty and without consciousness [TB] empty (and without consciousness)
b6	[SKT] with a stinking stream [streaming] steadily [from it] [TB] with a stinking stream [streaming] (steadily from it)
b7	[SKT] with this stinking body [TB] (with) this stinking (body)

Other

a3+	Shame be upon you, vulgar old age! (Peyrot 2013b: 309)
b5	… will lie then … (85) (Peyrot 2013b: 384)

Commentary

Parallel texts

*	Bernhard 1965: 105-109; Hahn 2007: 14-16; Norman 2004: 22-23

Remarks

*	The fragment is composed of the large fragment IOL Toch 233 (w 10,5 x h 6,2) to the right and the smaller fragment IOL Toch 368 (w 4,0 x h 6,0) to the left.

Linguistic commentary

n1	olaṅkä for olaṅk.
n6	tākoytä for tākoyt.
n8	sklokä for sklok.

Philological commentary

n2	Uv.1.27d-28a kāmā hi lokasya na supraheyāḥ // 27 jīryanti vai rājarathāḥ sucitrā
n3	Uv.1.28b hy atho śarīram api jarām upaiti / satāṃ tu dharmo na jarām upaiti
n4	hiś: for hiśt
n5	Uv.1.29a dhik tvām astu jare grāmye
n7	Uv.1.29c-d tathā manoramaṃ bimbaṃ tvayā yad abhimarditam, var.lect. for jarayā hy abhimarditam (Thomas 1971: 8)
n9	Uv.1.34c-d bhetsyate pūty asaṃdehaṃ maraṇāntaṃ hi jīvitaṃ
n10	Uv.1.35b-c pṛthivīm adhiśeṣyate / śunyo vyapetavijñānaḥ
n11	Uv.1.36b sravatā pūtinā sadā
n12	Uv.1.37a anena pūtikāyena

References

Online access

IDP: IOL Toch 233, IOL Toch 368

Edition

Lévi 1933: 41; Thomas 1971: 7-9; Peyrot 2007: №233; Peyrot 2008a: 84-85

Translations

Peyrot 2013b: a3 (309), a3 (309), b5 (384)