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IOL Toch 55
| Known as: | IOL Toch 55; H 149.204; A.204 |
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| Cite this page as: | Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 55". 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-ioltoch55 (accessed 12 Jun. 2026). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Michaël Peyrot |
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| Date of online publication: | 2014-04-27 |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Unknown |
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| Collection: | British Library (London) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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| Linguistic stage: | classical |
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| Script: | classical |
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Text contents |
| Text genre: | Literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Size (h × w): | 12.3 × 5.6 cm |
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| Number of lines: | 9 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// – – /// |
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| a2 | /// ·ma ññ· [m]·[¯] [¯]r• kus· [ṣ]· – /// |
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| a3 | /// – kce pi pa ñä kte [nt]·[e] /// |
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| a4 | /// ○ ta vaṃ [k]re – /// |
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| a5 | /// ○ – – lo /// |
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| a6 | /// ○ pe lai kne – /// |
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| a7 | /// [||] [c]· [ñc]· [m]· ·i yai [n]e /// |
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| a8 | /// m· – kuse [tn]e ·y[au] [s]· /// |
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| a9 | /// ·e – r·e – pe lai /// |
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| b1 | /// – lā nt· ṅki ts· • ly· /// |
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| b2 | /// lkā te ne ra mno a ra /// |
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| b3 | /// [m]· te lkā tsi ai śce /// |
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| b4 | /// ○ meṃ a mā ·ä /// |
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| b5 | /// ○ – – pra /// |
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| b6 | /// ○ ne pwā ra¯ ¯ś /// |
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| b7 | /// yke [p]o [s]taṃ bra hma [s]· /// |
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| b8 | /// – n[t]a [sa] ai śai sa – /// |
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| b9 | /// – ·[ai] – /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | ... |
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| a2 | ... I wish ... who ... |
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| a3 | ... of the Buddha himself ... |
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| a4 | ... Jetavana ... good (?) ... |
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| a5 | ... |
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| a6 | ... the law ... |
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| a7 | ... || in the [tune] cañcamaniyaine || ... |
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| a8 | ... who here ... |
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| a9 | ... the law ... |
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| b1 | ... |
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| b2 | ... his heart strove as it were ... |
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| b3 | ... do you give this to see? ... |
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| b4 | ... thereupon the ministers ... |
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| b5 | ... |
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| b6 | ... towards the fires ... |
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| b7 | ... gradually ... (with) [his] brahmasvara (voice) ... |
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| b8 | ... take notice of ... |
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| b9 | ... |
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Commentary
Remarks
| * | Both the recto and the verso partly badly abraded. |
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| * | According to Broomhead 1962: 315 "[w]ritten in large ductus, and badly abraded. Possibly the left edge of [a] nine line manuscript." |
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Philological commentary
| n1 | cañcamaniyaine: name of a tune with a metre of probably 4 x 7 ¦ 7 syllables. |
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| n2 | Cf. PK NS 398 a1 and Adams 2013a: 356. Although the fragment PK NS 398 is not complete and this fragment is severely damaged and fragmentary, it seems that this particular expression simply occurs twice: the texts are further not identical. |
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References
Online access
IDP: IOL Toch 55
Edition
Peyrot 2007: №55; Broomhead 1962: 315
Translations
Schmidt 1974: b2 (176 n.2)
