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MIK III 4048

Known as:MIK III 4048
Cite this page as:Melanie Malzahn. "MIK III 4048". 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-mikiii4048 (accessed 09 Nov. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Melanie Malzahn
Date of online publication:2015-12-10

Provenience

Main find spot:Unknown
Collection:Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Berlin)

Language and Script

Language:TB

Text contents

Text genre:Non-literary
Text subgenre:Colophon
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on wood tablet
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:2

Transliteration

a1/// mi tra wa rme pai kā nte pa ñä
a2kta ñe pe rne ṣṣe a kā lksa ñu weṃ ne sa ṅka tse ā yo¯ ¯r wsa re a mplā kaṃ tte pa rnā si¯ ¯m mā pra lle ste

Transcription

a1/// mitrawarme paikānte pañä¬
a2ktäñe perneṣṣe akālksa ñuweṃne saṅkatse āyor wsare amplākäṃtte pärnā-sim pralle ste

Translation

a1Mitravarman [and] ... wrote [this book] because of the
a2wish for the dignity of Buddha[hood] [and] they donated [it] to the monastery on the [day] of the new moon. [It] is not to be taken outside of the boundary [of the monastery] without permission!

Commentary

Philological commentary

*Reading and translation based on Ogihara 2014: 114.

References

Edition

Ogihara 2014: 114

Bibliography

Ogihara 2014

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2014. “Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 103–29.