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Kizil Wood 2
| Known as: | Kizil Wood 2 |
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| Cite this page as: | "Kizil Wood 2". 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-kizilwood2 (accessed 15 Nov. 2025). |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Kizil |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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| Linguistic stage: | late |
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| Script: | cursive |
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Text contents |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Account |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose |
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Object |
| Manuscript: | Assemblage VI |
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| Material: |
ink
on wood tablet |
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| Form: | Woodslip |
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| Number of lines: | 1 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// c(·)e k· me sa a waṃ ta ñai 1 sā ṅkśā wa pa ñcwa ri ke ṣa mā ne jñā ṇa vi re lyā ka o ta krä ktā śka klai yri ta ñai ṣā [r]wai klā te 1 klai śro ta ñai 1 a laṃ śro ta ñai 1 klai na śa wā re yo tko lau śi la wra tti wsā me • |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | /// [full-mouthed], ovine, 1. The saṃgha ate (it). Jñāṇavire the Pañcwarike monk has seen [it]. Then, Räktāśka took the meat of 1 female new-born, 1 female goat kid, (and) 1 male goat kid. Women ate (them). Śilawratti the Yotkolau gave to them. |
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Commentary
Remarks
| * | Found in 1989 during excavations in the monastery (Schmidt 1997: 244) |
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References
other
Schmidt 1997: 244 [f; Ching 2010: 295
Bibliography
Ching 2010
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Schmidt 1997
Schmidt, Klaus T. 1997. “Liebe und Sexualität im Spiegel der tocharischen Sprachzeugnisse.” In Eros, Liebe und Zuneigung in der Indogermania. Akten des Symposiums zur indogermanischen Kultur- und Altertumskunde in Graz (29. – 30. September 1994), edited by Michaela Ofitsch, 227–62. Arbeiten aus der Abteilung “Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft” in Graz 11. Graz: Leykam.
