Ot 19.1
| Known as: | Ot 19.1; inventory no. 174 |
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| Cite this page as: | CEToM. "Ot 19.1". 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-ot191 (accessed 06 Oct. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | CEToM |
| Date of online publication: | 2015-08 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kucha |
| Collection: | Tokyo National Museum |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | late |
| Script: | cursive |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
| Text subgenre: | Unknown |
| Verse/Prose: | prose |
Object | |
| Material: | ink on wood tablet |
| Form: | Woodslip |
| Size (h × w): | 12 × 19.5 cm |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Transliteration
| a1 | mi tra wa rddha ne • wi rya śā nti • a rya ra kṣi te • ka lya na mo kṣe • a rya ko ṣe • sa tya ra kṣi te • mi |
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| a2 | tra so me • śā nti se ne • mo ko pu tta wa rme • ynai ymyā ṣṣi ke ta sa cā neṃ ka mā nte yä ltse |
| a3 | pi śka nte • tā yä sa ṅk[r]ā mi ññai ke tā ntse ko mpi rko [meṃ] a r[m]o ki ññe ca ke si¯ ¯m o |
| a4 | mo tru ññai ṣṣe ya te ññe cke ṣṣe ā rte si¯ ¯m ko mkla sko meṃ o ro tsa ne wi ya si¯ ¯m |
| a5 | o ṣṣa – le meṃ a rmo ki ññe cke ṣṣe ā rte si¯ ¯m o ro tsai ne wi yai ta ṅtsi • |
| a6 |
Transcription
| a1 | mitrawarddhane • wiryaśānti • aryarakṣite • kalyanamokṣe • aryakoṣe • satyarakṣite • mi- |
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| a2 | -trasome • śāntisene • moko puttawarme • ynaiymyāṣṣi ketasa cāneṃ kamānte yältse |
| a3 | piś känte • tāy{†ä} saṅkrāmiññai ketāntse kom pirkomeṃ armokiññe cake sim o- |
| a4 | -motruññaiṣṣe yateññe ckeṣṣe ārte sim kom kläskomeṃ orotsa newiya sim |
| a5 | oṣṣa lemeṃ armokiññe ckeṣṣe ārte sim orotsai newiyai täṅtsi • |
| a6 | kāyne ṣotri ṣecaki aṣkār läkāskemane |
Translation
| a1 | Mitrawarddhane, Wiryaśānti, Aryarakṣite, Kalyanamokṣe, Aryakoṣe, Satyarakṣite, |
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| a2 | Mitrasome, Śāntisene, (and) Puttawarme the Moko. (The people) of Ynaimyā carried (here) the coins (produced in? / as the price of?) the field: one thousand |
| a3 | five hundred. (The four limits) of this field belong to the monastery: on the east the river Armoki (is) the boundary; |
| a4 | on the south the branch of the river Yāte (is) the boundary; on the west the great canal (is) the boundary; |
| a5 | on the north the branch of the river Armoki (is) the boundary, just until the great canal. |
| a6 | The mark of a lion on the clay (?) (is) seen on the verso. |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| The translation follows Pinault 1998a and Ching 2010. | |
| n1 | Note the spelling tayä. |
Remarks
| Thickness 0,7 cm. Only recto. | |
| There is an image of this tablet on Wikimedia Commons. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Peyrot 2008 | C |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Publication
Kagawa 1915; Otani Catalogue 1971: 157; Inokuchi 1980: 291
Edition
Pinault 1998a: 364-365; Adams 1998a: 372-378; Tamai 2004; Ching 2010: 323-324
Bibliography
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Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
Inokuchi, Taijun. 1980. 西域出土佛典の研究『西域考古圖譜』の漢文佛典 – A study on the Buddhist texts unearthed at Central Asia based upon Chinese Buddhist texts in the “Archaeological albums of the Otani collection” (Saiiki koko zufu, 2). Kyoto: Ryukoku University. http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/I-1-E-18/V-2/.
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Otani Catalogue. 1971. Tokyo-kokuritsu-hakubutsukan Zuhan Mokuroku. Otani Tankentai Shouraihin Hen (Illustrated Catalogues of the Tokyo National Museum. Central Asian Objects brought back by the Otani Mission). Tokyo.
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