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IOL Toch 893

Known as:IOL Toch 893
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 893". 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-ioltoch893 (accessed 17 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:Vinayavibhaṅga
Passage:Pāt.23-24
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Vinaya
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):5.6 × 5.0 cm
Number of lines:3

Images

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

Transliteration

lf50 5
a1r· [t]y· m· [ṣ]y· • [m]· ·[k]· ///
a2pe lai kne we s̝[s̝a]ṃ ///
a3ṣa mā ne ·e ///
b1na kuṣai meṃ [p]· ///
b2kā te kca ye¯ ¯[s] ///
b3[p]a [ñ]ä [k]·e [k]·au – ///

Transcription

lf50-5
a1 ty· ṣy· ·k· ///
a2pelaikne weṣṣäṃ ///
a3ṣamāne ·e ///
b1°na kuṣaimeṃ ///
b2°kāte kca yes ///
b3pañäk(t)e k(ly)au(ṣa) ///

Translation

a1they did ... ///
a2he preaches the law ///
a3a monk ... [the law] ///
b1[the nuns] from the village ///
b2... [you] ///
b3Buddha [heard] (and blamed) ///

Commentary

Remarks

*The lower margin of the recto (upper of the verso) and the left margin are preserved.

References

Online access

IDP: IOL Toch 893

Identification

Ogihara 2009: 97

Edition

Tamai 2007: №893; Tamai 2007: №893; Ogihara 2009: 97, 345-346

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2009

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2009. “Researches about Vinaya-texts in Tocharian A and B [Recherches sur le Vinaya en tokharien A et B].” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Tamai 2007

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2007. “An edition of the Tocharian fragments IOL Toch 853 – IOL Toch 1247 in the India Office Library, London.” The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online. 2007. http://idp.bl.uk/database/oo_cat.a4d?shortref=Tamai_2007.