IOL Toch 828

Known as:	IOL Toch 828
Cite this page as:	Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 828". 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-ioltoch828 (accessed 16 Dec. 2025).
Edition
Editor:	Michaël Peyrot
Date of online publication:	2015-01-17
Provenience
Collection:	British Library (London)
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānavarga
Passage:	1.21c25b
Text genre:	Literary
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī

Images

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Transliteration

a1	/// ñ· ññ· nta k[a] – ///
a2	/// kṣa yā ntā n· ///
a3	/// ·e nta • ·[a]ṃ ///
b1	/// [w]· [rp]· – ///
b2	/// [t]·¯ ¯m^• yā mo [ṣ]· ///
b3	/// sya nti ni rā sra [v]· ///
b4	/// ·[e] ///

Transcription

a1	n1 /// (eka)ñ(i)ññ(e)nta ka(krauparmeṃ) ///
a2	n2 ///

*	kṣayāntā n(icayāḥ)

*	///
a3	n3 /// ·enta •

*	(s)aṃ(yogā)

*	///
b1	n4 /// w(ä)rp(aucañ) ///
b2	n5 ///

*	(sadga)t(i)m

*	yāmoṣ· ·///
b3	n6 ///

*	(nirvā)syanti nirāsrav(āḥ)

*	///
b4	/// ·e ///

Translation

a1	... [TB]: having gathered possessions; ...
a2	... [SKT]: (all) accumulations have ruin as their end; ...
a3	... [TB]: elevations (have going down as their end); [SKT]: conjunctions (have separation as their end); ...
b1	... [TB]: receiving (the fruit of their merits and their bad deeds); ...
b2	... [SKT]: (who have done meritorious [deeds]) [will go] to a good existence; [TB]: who have done (meritorious [deeds will go] to a good existence); ...
b3	... [SKT]: will go to nirvāṇa, free from affliction. ...
b4	...

Commentary

Parallel texts

*	IOL Toch 114

Remarks

*	On IDP, recto and verso are reversed.

Philological commentary

n1	: cf. Ud1.21c bhogān vai samudānīya.
n2	: cf. Ud1.22a sarve kṣayāntā nicayāḥ.
n3	: cf. Ud1.22b–c patanāntāḥ samucchrayāḥ \| saṃyogā viprayogāntā.
n4	: cf. Ud1.23d puṇyapāpaphalopagāḥ.
n5	: cf. Ud1.24b kṛtapuṇyās tu sadgatim.
n6	: cf. Ud1.24d nirvāsyanti nirāsravāḥ.

References

Online access

IDP: IOL Toch 828

other

Chakravarti 1930: 4-6; Hahn 2007: 14; Bernhard 1965: 102-103

Bibliography

Bernhard 1965

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

Chakravarti 1930

Chakravarti, Niranjan Prasad. 1930. L‘Udānavarga sanskrit, Texte sanscrit en transcription, avec traduction et annotations, suivi d‘une étude critique et de planches. Tome premier (Chapitres I à XXI). Paris: Geuthner.

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.