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IOL Toch 479

Known as:	IOL Toch 479; D 120
Cite this page as:	Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 479". 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-ioltoch479 (accessed 10 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Michaël Peyrot
Provenience
Main find spot:	Unknown
Collection:	British Library (London)
Language and Script
Language:	TB; Sanskrit
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānavarga
Passage:	4.6c-4.9a
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	4
Interline spacing:	1.4 cm

Images

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

Transliteration

a2	/// ·t· ·t· ///
a3	/// kne sa [ś]· [y]· ñca ///
a4	/// ·[s]m· tra 6 a dhi [ce] ///
a5	/// – ·[ā] ·i – ·o ///
b2	/// ·r· – – [n]· n· ///
b3	/// p[i] lko mā cä ñca ///
b4	/// 8 sa – g[d]· [ṣ]·i ///
b5	/// ·e ·e ///

Transcription

a2	/// ·t· ·t· ///
a3	n1 /// (pelai)knesa ś(a)y(e)ñca(ntse) ///
a4	n2 /// (t)sm(e)trä 6 adhice(tasi) ///
a5	/// – ·ā ·i – ·o ///
b2	n3 /// (p)r(amāde)n(a) n(a) ///
b3	n4 /// pilko mā cäñca(n-ne) ///
b4	n5 /// 8 sa(mya)gd(ṛ)ṣ(ṭ)i(r) ///
b5	/// ·e ·e ///

Translation

a3	[TB] for him who (is self-restrained), lives according to the law
a4	[TB] (and is careful, fame) increases [SKT] (do not be negligent) in your minds!
b2	[SKT] (one should) not (dwell) with negligence
b3	[TB] one should not like a (wrong) view
b4	[SKT] [who has] a (completely) right view

Commentary

Parallel texts

	Bernhard 1965: 127-128; Lévi 1912a: 241-245; Hahn 2007: 23-24

Remarks

	Possibly the leaf directly following IOL Toch 928.
	The lines are numbered on the assumption that the fragment is from the same ms. as IOL Toch 928: a1 may have contained 4.6a; a2 4.6b; a6 4.7b-c; b1 7d-8a. On IDP, recto and verso are reversed.

Philological commentary

n1	Uv.4.6c saṃyatasya hi dharmajīvinaḥ
n2	Uv.4.6d-7a hy apramattasya yaśo ’bhivardhate // 6 adhicetasi mā pramadyata
n3	Uv.4.8b pramādena na saṃvaset, see Dhp.167 (and Norman 2004: 26)
n4	Uv.4.8c mithyādṛṣṭiṃ na roceta, see Dhp.167 (and Norman 2004: 26)
n5	Uv.4.9a samyagdṛṣṭir adhīmātrā

References

Online access

IDP: IOL Toch 479

Edition

Peyrot 2007a: №479; Peyrot 2008a: 91

Bibliography

Bernhard 1965

Bernhard, Franz. 1965. Udānavarga. Band I, Einleitung, Beschreibung der Handschriften, Textausgabe, Bibliographie. Sanskrittexte aus den Turfanfunden 10. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.

Hahn 2007

Hahn, Michael. 2007. Vom rechten Leben, Buddhistische Lehren aus Indien und Tibet, Aus dem Sanskrit und aus dem Tibetischen übersetzt und herausgegeben. Frankfurt am Main/Leipzig: Verlag der Weltreligionen (im Insel Verlag).

IDP

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

Lévi 1912a

Lévi, Sylvain. 1912a. “L’Apramāda-varga. Étude sur les recensions des Dharmapadas.” Journal Asiatique 10ème série, 20: 203–94.

Norman 2004

Norman, Kenneth R. 2004. The word of the doctrine (Dhammapada). Translated with an introduction and notes. Vol. 46. PTS. Oxford: Pali Text Society.

Peyrot 2007a

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

Peyrot 2008a

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008a. “More Sanskrit – Tocharian B bilingual Udānavarga fragments.” Indogermanische Forschungen 113: 83–125.