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IOL Toch 897

Known as:IOL Toch 897
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot. "IOL Toch 897". 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-ioltoch897 (accessed 19 Apr. 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:Bhikṣu-Prātimokṣasūtra
Passage:NP. (?)
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Vinaya
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Images

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

Transliteration

a1/// – ///
a2/// ·w· sā ṅk[e] ///
a3/// – n[ai] ṣnā ske ///
a4/// – ka kā kau sa ///
a5/// – ṣī ·e ///
b1/// – ///
b2/// ñe • ṣm[ā] ///
b3/// – • su wä stsi ///
b4/// t[ra] • o¯ ¯m ///
b5/// – ·[i] ///

Transcription

a1/// – ///
a2/// ·w· sāṅk ///
a3/// – nai nāske° ///
a4n1 /// – kakākau sa ///
a5/// – ṣī ·e ///
b1/// – ///
b2/// °ñeṣmā° ///
b3/// – • su wästsi ///
b4/// °träom ///
b5/// – ·i ///

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1kakākau sa: Ogihara 2011: 132 reads this as kakākausa, which, if correct, suggests appurtenance to the Bhikṣunī-Prātimokṣasūtra

References

Online access

IDP: IOL Toch 897

Identification

Ogihara 2011: 131

Edition

Tamai 2007: №897; Tamai 2007: №897; Ogihara 2011: 131-132

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2011

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2011. “Notes on some Tocharian Vinaya fragments in the London and Paris collections.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 12: 111–44.

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.