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Kizil Wood 5

Known as:	Kizil Wood 5
Cite this page as:	"Kizil Wood 5". 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-kizilwood5 (accessed 13 Nov. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	late
Script:	cursive
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Account
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	Assemblage VI
Material:	ink on wood tablet
Form:	Woodslip
Number of lines:	1

Transliteration

a1	/// – ñu ne m[u] ku sa ṣā rwai klā te klai yna [y]ri[ṃ] 3 o ta kta – ·k· mu yo – ṣe pku we [ṣ]a ll[ā] [w]aṃ ntse ṣā rwai k[l]ā [t]e 1 [pa] ñ[c]wa ri ke ṣa m[ā] n[e] a rya so me lyā ka | pi ṅc(·) śa [k]ne mu ku sa k[lai] yri ta ñai ṣā rwai klā te 1 o ta ka le śro ta ñai ṣa rw(·) klā ///

Transcription

a1	/// – ñune mukusa ṣārwai klāte klaiyna yriṃ 3 otak ta – ·k· mu yo – ṣe pkuweṣ allāwaṃntse ṣārwai klāte 1 pañcwarike ṣamāne aryasome lyāka । piṅc(e) śakne mukusa klai-yritañai ṣārwai klāte 1 otak ale-śrotañai ṣarw(ai) klā(te) ///

Translation

a1	/// On the 9th day ..., Mukusa took [the meat] of 3 female new-born. Then ..., has taken [the meat] of two-tooth ālāu: • Aryasome the Pañcwarike monk has seen [it]. | On the 10th day of the 5th (month), Mukusa took [the meat] of a female lamb: 1. Then (Mukusa) took [the meat] of a male goat kid. ///

Commentary

Parallel texts

*	Kizil Wood 0

References

other

Ching 2010: 297

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.