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PD Bois B55

Known as:PD Bois B55; Pelliot Divers Bois B55
Cite this page as:"PD Bois B55". 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-pdboisb55 (accessed 18 Nov. 2025).

Provenience

Collection:Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)

Language and Script

Language:TB

Text contents

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

Object

Material: ink on wood tablet
Number of lines:1

Transliteration

a1mai tri ye ntse ○

Transcription

a1n1 maitriyentse

Translation

a1(sth.) of/to Maitriye*.

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1Maitriye*: i.e. Maitreye* < Buddhist Skt. Maitreya-.

References

other

Ching 2010: 318

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.