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Kg-025-ZS-L-02

Known as:	Kg-025-ZS-L-02; G-Qa 3 (B)
Cite this page as:	Adrian Musitz. "Kg-025-ZS-L-02". 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-kg025zsl02 (accessed 16 Feb. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Adrian Musitz
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil Kargha
Collection:	in situ
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Object
Material:	on wall
Form:	Graffito

Transliteration

a1	i kaṃ w· kṣu ntsa yā ś[i] [l]·
a2	nti nā ke pi ku lne ṣa mā [n]i ///
a3	ye pa ka cāṃ ne – ·[e]
a4	k(·)· l(·)ā ·[e] ·[e]

Transcription

a1	ikäṃ-w(i) kṣuntsa yāśi l(ā-)
a2	nti nāke pikulne ṣamāni (ṣmā-)
a3	ye pakacāṃne (tan)e
a4	k(·)· l(·)ā ·e ·e

Translation

a1+	In regnal year twenty two of king Yāśe, in the dragon year, the monks in the pakacāṃ of summer... here...

Other

a1	Yāśe 王二十二年龙年，众沙门于［夏］安居之时，在此....../// (Zhao and Rong 2020: 280-281)

References

Edition

Zhao and Rong 2020: 280-281; Ching 2017: 137-138

Translations

Zhao and Rong 2020: a1 (280-281)

Bibliography

Ching 2017

Ching, Chao-jung. 2017. 吐火罗语世俗文献与古代龟兹历史 – Tocharian secular texts and the history of Ancient Kucha. Beijing: Peking University Press.

Zhao and Rong 2020

Zhao, Li, and Xinjiang Rong, eds. 2020. Cave inscriptions in Ancient Kucha. Shanghai: Zhongxi Book Company.