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Kizil WD-IV-1
| Known as: | Kizil WD-IV-1; 90K-58F-01 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "Kizil WD-IV-1". 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-kizilwdiv1 (accessed 19 Aug. 2026). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Kizil |
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| Specific find spot: | 谷西区 |
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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: | Poetry |
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| Verse/Prose: | verse |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on wood tablet |
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| Form: | Woodslip |
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| Size (h × w): | 17.2 + 6.0 × 21.0 + 15.5 cm |
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| Number of lines: | 11 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | || a pra ti tu lyeṃ ne || kuśi ññe pi lā nte sva [r]ṇa [d]e – – śa r[i] /// |
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| a2 | ke¯ ¯ś ta ttā lñe tsa ṅkā [n]e – o¯ [¯t] [s]·· [l](·)[au] t(·) toṃ yke nta ne wno lmi te te m[o]¯ ¯s̝ /// |
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| a3 | la kle nta : 1 ñi śno ka l[p]ā [w]· [ś]· – ·(·)[e] l·e nta nä kse ma ne śā saṃ ne ce [l]· /// |
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| a4 | tu ypa rwe rsa [mai] pa [lsko] – mpi [m]k[ca] c[e] sa ṅkrā m[n]e wi [tsa] ka [nn]e wä ntre [yā] – /// |
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| a5 | tma nau ṣa¯ ¯p pra tyai ka bu ddhi ta kā¯ ¯r ta ne tne¯ ¯k [k]e ssa nte gu nma cce [s]· – [r]· /// |
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| a6 | ṅkrā mce : [bha] dra kā [m]e [s]·¯ ¯m a rhā nte ṣai tne cwī a kla ṣlyi ya ltse so lme ky[ā] /// |
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| a7 | śā nte dha rma [p]ā le sa ṅghai śe : 3 ceṃ tsra no mā ka ta kā¯ ¯r a kla ṣly[i] bo dhi sa /// |
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| a8 | ṣle ṣṣe guṃ ṇne we ntsi ya tsi (·)[t]· (·)k· me ṅki l[k]ā ta rne [:] [s](·)· – – ·[ā] – – /// |
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| a9 | śpā lme(·) sa ṅkrā mse wro tse tū sa pa lsk[o] e ·s· m· (·)[ñ]· /// |
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| a10 | mpe lya : ta nma s̝s̝aṃ nrai ne l[w]· [s]· pr· [te] [nne] ñä kcye śā m(·)e /// |
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| a11 | ñī tsa ṅka pa lsko ce yke ne [ka] r[p]ā ra [ṣṣ]ai /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | In the Apratitulya-tune: |
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| a1 | The remains of the King of Kucha Suvarṇadeve... here... |
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| a1+ | There arose to him a manner of thinking: |
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| a2+ | Without a break, then, the beings born in these places... (endure) sufferings. |
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| a3 | I recieved... destroying enmity and pleasure in this teaching... |
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| a3+ | Thereupon, I roused my mind: |
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| a4 | May I be able to do some deed in this monastery, in (my) roots (?)... |
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| a4+ | There were more than ten thousand Pratyekabuddhas here. |
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| a5 | In this very place, in the monastary of caves, they came to extinction. |
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| a5+ | ... this monastery... Bhadrakāme the Arhant was refuge here. |
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| a6 | His students, thousands in total, fulfilled... |
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| a6+ | ... -śānte, Dharmapāle, Saṅghaiśe... |
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| a7 | Also to them were many students, Bodhisattvas... |
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| a7+ | His lack to go to speek in the mountain cave is visible (?)... |
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| a8+ | ... this excellent great monastery... |
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| a9 | Thus, I roused my mind... |
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| a9+ | ... terrible... produces... in hell, among animals and pretas, divine and human... |
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| a10+ | The thought arose to me to... karpāräṣṣai... |
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| a1 | || In the tune of Apratitulye || By (?) the Kuchean king Suvarṇadeva here (?), the remains […] |
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| a2 | To him the thought arose. Then […] the creatures were born in these places […] |
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| a3 | […] sufferings. 1. But I obtained […] suffering (?) in destroying enmity and (sexual) pleasure in this teaching […] |
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| a4 | Thereupon, I evoked a thought (as follows). I might do […] thing at the roots (= at the foot) of this monastery. […] |
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| a5 | […] here existed more than ten thousand Pratyekabuddhas. They came to extinction here in the monastery provided with caves. […] |
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| a6 | […] this monastery […] Bhadrakāme, refuge, an arhat was here. All his thousand pupils fulfilled […] |
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| a7 | […] -śānte, Dharmapāle, Saṅghaiśe […] 3. To them there were many Bodhisattvas as (their) pupils […] |
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| a8 | the lack is still seen to him to go to speak (= to preach a sermon) in the cave of a mountain. […] |
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| a9 | […] excellent (is) this huge monastery. Thereby I evoked the thought (as follows). […] |
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| a10 | […] terrible […] it makes (creatures?) born in animals and Pretas in a hell, in divine and human worlds […] |
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| a11 | […] the thought arose to me (as follows). In this place at a declivity of a mountain […] |
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Other
Commentary
Remarks
| * | Only recto; two joint pieces (upper one with lines 1–8, lower one with lines 9–11) found in June 1990 in the central-pillar Cave no. 58 datable to the 7th century; see Ogihara 2015: 149-150. |
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References
Edition
Zhao and Rong 2020: 391-393; Ogihara 2015
Translations
Zhao and Rong 2020: a1 (391-393), a2 (391-393), a3 (391-393), a4 (391-393), a5 (391-393), a6 (391-393), a7 (391-393), a8 (391-393), a9 (391-393), a10 (391-393), a11 (391-393)
Bibliography
Ogihara 2015
Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2015. “Kuchean verses written on a wooden tablet kept at Xinjiang Kucha Academy.” In Tocharian Texts in Context. International Conference on Tocharian Manuscripts and Silk Road Culture held June 26–28, 2013 in Vienna, edited by Melanie Malzahn, Michaël Peyrot, Hannes A. Fellner, and Theresa-Susanna Illés, 149–57. Bremen: Hempen. http://www.hempen-verlag.de/tocharian-texts-in-contexts.html.
Zhao and Rong 2020
Zhao, Li, and Xinjiang Rong, eds. 2020. Cave inscriptions in Ancient Kucha. Shanghai: Zhongxi Book Company.
