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PD Bois B97

Known as:PD Bois B97; Pelliot Divers Bois B97
Cite this page as:"PD Bois B97". 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-pdboisb97 (accessed 11 Oct. 2026).

Provenience

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

Language and Script

Language:TB

Text contents

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

Object

Material: ink on wood tablet
Number of lines:2

Transliteration

a1s[o] [m]· de v[e] ///
a2pe rṇi śke ysā ri pe ri cā k • śa nti va – [ccha] ///

Transcription

a1som(a)deve ///
a2perṇiśke ysāri peri cāk • śantiva – ccha ///

Translation

a1[Somadeve] ///
a2Perṇiśke, the wheat to be paid: one picul. Śanti-? ... ///

References

other

Ching 2010: 321

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.