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Kucha 189
| Known as: | Kucha 189; Or. 8212/1854 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "Kucha 189". 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-kucha189 (accessed 09 Jul. 2025). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
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Provenience |
| Collection: | British Library (London) |
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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 |
| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Scroll |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// [yä] ltse pi śkä nte |
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| a2 | /// t· rya ka nte |
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| a3 | /// w· t· ā śsa ki mśo¯ ¯k cā neṃ wa sa ṣka ska nte |
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| a4 | /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | ... thousand five hundred. |
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| a2 | ... three hundred. |
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| a3 | ... two pecks. Kimśok gave coins as head (?)n2 : six hundred. |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Maybe kimśok has something to do with chinese 金? cf. kimña in THT 466 a2, THT 2904 a1. |
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| n2 | It's not entirely clear what is meant here. The context is just too fragmentary. |
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References
Edition
Lévi 1928: 1029-1030; Ching 2010: 338
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.
Lévi 1928
Lévi, Sylvain. 1928. “Appendix G: Notes on Manuscript Remains in Kuchean.” Innermost Asia. Detailed report of explorations in Central Asia, Kan-su and Eastern Īrān, 1029–30.
