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PK AS 13B
| Known as: | PK AS 13B; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 13B |
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| Cite this page as: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator); Hannes A. Fellner (collaborator). "PK AS 13B". 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-pkas13b (accessed 06 Oct. 2024). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator); Hannes A. Fellner (collaborator) |
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| Date of online publication: | 2013-02 |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Duldur-akur |
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| Collection: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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| Linguistic stage: | classical |
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| Script: | classical |
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Text contents |
| Title of the work: | Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā, ch. 4: Kalmāṣapāda and Sutasoma |
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| Text genre: | Literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Size (h × w): | 18 × 26.8 cm |
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| Number of lines: | 8 |
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| Interline spacing: | 2 cm |
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Transliteration
| a2 | /// [ñ]· ñra [s]n[ai] ke¯ ¯śä e mpa rkre : ka – – – – – – – – – – – |
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| a3 | /// – ptā¯ ¯r la kle nta ntso ā śpo pa pyā ko¯ ¯s̝ ceṃ ṣa rmtsa – – – – – |
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| a4 | /// wa lo ce kw[ä] rñai pa ñä ktaṃ ñe pe rne ne ta ka rṣka [ñ]· – – – – – |
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| a5 | /// l[t]·a twe ṣa¯ ¯ñä śau¯ ¯l ri na sta¯ ¯r || ta ne su da so me w· [l]· |
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| a6 | /// [rt]to rmeṃ we s̝s̝aṃ mai ma ñcu o lya po tse a mā skai ce wä |
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| a7 | /// [ṣl]ya wī na po wä nta rwa ne se wä nta re a [m]ā ·[ai] – [tk]· pa |
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| a8 | /// ñe sa /// |
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| b1 | /// – [n]· t· /// /// [pr]· |
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| b2 | /// [ṣī] k[ai] ntso : tu meṃ sā keṃ ñä kt[e] nme tra p[ai] ne [ys]· – śle pa |
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| b3 | /// [ñ]e : mā ka la laṃ ṣka na tse ñā [na] e śne sa e rs̝s̝aṃ ta ka |
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| b4 | /// [n]ts[o] ytte : wcū ka ne yai lwa toṃ lā nte [ṣ]e ckeṃ nts[e] mo t[r]· nt(·) ā ·e (–) |
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| b5 | /// ṣṣ[ī] nts· : te ykne sa yso mo sū po nta kre ntau na ntsai – – – – – – – |
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| b6 | /// [p]· ks̝aṃ ña kta sāṃ lkā lñe ṣṣa pe ñi ya pa ñ[ä] kte – – – – – – |
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| b7 | /// ti tu [l]yeṃ ne || pa lsko ṣṣe nau – – – – – – – – – – |
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| b8 | /// lā ·e /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a2 | even if I were obliged (to roll in the Avīci hell) for a long time without limit (lit. without number), (I would rather endure) the damage … |
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| a3 | … (the living beings who) are being struck on the head by sufferings separately [for each one]. For that reason, … |
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| a4 | (Immediately after having heard that,) King (Kalmāṣapāda obtained) somehow faith in the glory of Buddhahood … |
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| a5 | ‘For the sake of (whose) life do you abandon your own life?’ |
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| a5+ | Then King Sutasoma … |
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| a6 | … after having encouraged [him] (with a glance), says: |
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| a6+ | ‘O you clever one! (You have asked me about) a very difficult matter … |
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| a7 | … to make the earth fly (towards the sky) [is] an easy task (lit. pleasure, recreation); |
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| a7+ | [but] among all matters, this [is] an (extreme)ly difficult matter, (to describe the qualities) of the Buddhas … |
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| b1 | ... |
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| b2 | … of those who step (smoothly), |
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| b2+ | thereupon this earth-goddess will bow close to [their] feet, like someone (female) of reason. |
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| b3+ | … (this wonder), because of [his, i.e. the Buddha’s] tender blue eyes it evokes in many instances faith … |
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| b4 | … one is never satisfied (looking at him). |
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| b4+ | [His] two curved jaws [are] those of the lion king, holding (as it were) the missile of Hari, … |
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| b5 | (The preceding Buddhas of this final?) teacher (were as numerous as grains of sand in the Gaṅgā?). In this manner he fully [is] a receptacle of all virtues.’ |
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| b6 | (King Kalmāṣapāda) asks: ‘O lord! (If) this splendor of vision (is found on the body) of the Buddha-lord …’ |
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| b7 | || In the tune A. || ‘The jewel of thought … |
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| b8 | ... |
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Other
Commentary
Philological commentary
| For a detailed commentary and the fragment, the translation, and the correspondences with the Old Uyghur text of the Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā, see Wilkens et al. 2014. |
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| n1 | ṣīkaintso: This difficult form is in the edition provisionally interpretated as an agent noun of səyka- 'step'. However, a reading ṣ(p)īkaintso is also possible. This would solve the morphological problems, since this is the regular gen.pl. of ṣpikiye* 'crutch'. If this restoration is correct, the Old Uyghur parallel would be less close for this passage. |
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Remarks
| Right part of a very large leaf. The first line of the recto is almost completely lost except for two unreadable akṣaras. |
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References
other
Couvreur 1954: 86
Edition and translation
Wilkens et al. 2014
Translations
Schmidt 1974: b2 (293)
Bibliography
Couvreur 1954
Couvreur, Walter. 1954. “Review of: Westtocharische Grammatik, Band I. Das Verbum.” Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 208: 79–92.
Schmidt 1974
Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
Wilkens et al. 2014
Wilkens, Jens, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Michaël Peyrot. 2014. “A Tocharian B parallel to the legend of Kalmāṣapāda and Sutasoma of the Old Uyghur Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā.” Acta Orientalia Hungarica 67: 1–18.
