PK AS 13B

Known as:	PK AS 13B; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 13B
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 08 Mar. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator); Hannes A. Fellner (collaborator)
Date of online publication:	2013-02
Provenience
Main find spot:	Duldur-akur
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā, ch. 4: Kalmāṣapāda and Sutasoma
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	18 × 26.8 cm
Number of lines:	8
Interline spacing:	2 cm

Transliteration

a2	/// [ñ]· ñra [s]n[ai] ke¯ ¯śä e mpa rkre : ka – – – – – – – – – – –
a3	/// – ptā¯ ¯r la kle nta ntso ā śpo pa pyā ko¯ ¯s̝ ceṃ ṣa rmtsa – – – – –
a4	/// wa lo ce kw[ä] rñai pa ñä ktaṃ ñe pe rne ne ta ka rṣka [ñ]· – – – – –
a5	/// l[t]·a twe ṣa¯ ¯ñä śau¯ ¯l ri na sta¯ ¯r \|\| ta ne su da so me w· [l]·
a6	/// [rt]to rmeṃ we s̝s̝aṃ mai ma ñcu o lya po tse a mā skai ce wä
a7	/// [ṣl]ya wī na po wä nta rwa ne se wä nta re a [m]ā ·[ai] – [tk]· pa
a8	/// ñe sa ///
b1	/// – [n]· t· /// /// [pr]·
b2	/// [ṣī] k[ai] ntso : tu meṃ sā keṃ ñä kt[e] nme tra p[ai] ne [ys]· – śle pa
b3	/// [ñ]e : mā ka la laṃ ṣka na tse ñā [na] e śne sa e rs̝s̝aṃ ta ka
b4	/// [n]ts[o] ytte : wcū ka ne yai lwa toṃ lā nte [ṣ]e ckeṃ nts[e] mo t[r]· nt(·) ā ·e (–)
b5	/// ṣṣ[ī] nts· : te ykne sa yso mo sū po nta kre ntau na ntsai – – – – – – –
b6	/// [p]· ks̝aṃ ña kta sāṃ lkā lñe ṣṣa pe ñi ya pa ñ[ä] kte – – – – – –
b7	/// ti tu [l]yeṃ ne \|\| pa lsko ṣṣe nau – – – – – – – – – –
b8	/// lā ·e ///

Transcription

a2	/// (kli)ñ(i)-ñ ra snai keś emparkre : ka(rep) ///
a3	/// (wai)ptār läklentantso āś po papyākoṣ ceṃ ṣarmtsa ///
a4	/// walo ce-k wärñai pañäktäṃñe pernene takarṣkäñ(ñe) ///
a5	/// (kete) (śau)lt(s)a twe ṣañ śaul rinastar ॥ tane sudasome w(a)l(o)
a6	/// (ṣeṣa)rttormeṃ weṣṣäṃ maimañcu olyapotse amāskaice wä
a7	(ntare) /// (keṃ) /// (pluwä)ṣlya wīna po wäntarwane se wäntare amā(sk)ai (śa)tk(ai) pa
a8	(ñäktents) /// ñe sa ///
b1	/// – n· t· /// /// pr·
b2	n1 /// ṣīkaintso : tumeṃ sā keṃ-ñäkte nmeträ paine ys(ape) śle pä
b3	(lskotstsa) (ra) (:) /// (se) (āktikäṃ)ñe : māka lalaṃṣkana tseñāna eśnesa erṣṣäṃ taka¬
b4	¬(rṣkñe) (:) /// (lkātsi) (o)ntsoytte : wcūkane yailwa toṃ lānte ṣeckeṃntse motr(a)nt(s=) ā(str) e(ṅku)
b5	(ra) (:) /// (akek) (kä)ṣṣīnts(e) : te-yknesa ysomo sū ponta krentaunants ai(se) ///
b6	/// p(re)kṣäṃ ñakta sāṃ lkālñeṣṣa peñiya pañäkte(ntse) (kektsentsa)
b7	/// (॥) (apra)titulyeṃne ॥ pälskoṣṣe nau(mye) ///
b8	/// lā ·e ///

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 ...
a2+	... (the living beings who) are being struck on the head by sufferings separately [for each one].
a3	For that reason, ...
a3+	(Immediately after having heard that,) King (Kalmāṣapāda obtained) somehow faith in the glory of Buddhahood ...
a4+	‘For the sake of (whose) life do you abandon your own life?’
a5+	Then King Sutasoma ...
a6	... after having encouraged [him] (with a glance), says:
a6+	‘O you clever one! (You have asked me about) a very difficult matter ...
a7	... to make the earth fly (towards the sky) [is] an easy task (lit. pleasure, recreation);
a7+	[but] among all matters, this [is] an (extreme)ly difficult matter, (to describe the qualities) of the Buddhas ...
a8+	...
b1+	... of those who step (smoothly),
b2+	thereupon this earth-goddess will bow close to [their] feet, like someone (female) of reason.
b3+	... (this wonder), because of [his, i.e. the Buddha’s] tender blue eyes it evokes in many instances faith ...
b4	... one is never satisfied (looking at him).
b4+	[His] two curved jaws [are] those of the lion king, holding (as it were) the missile of Hari, ...
b5	(The preceding Buddhas of this final?) teacher (were as numerous as grains of sand in the Gaṅgā?).
b5	In this manner he fully [is] a receptacle of all virtues.’
b5+	(King Kalmāṣapāda) asks:
b6	‘O lord! (If) this splendor of vision (is found on the body) of the Buddha-lord ...’
b6+	\|\| In the tune A. \|\|
b7	‘The jewel of thought ...
b7+	...

Other

b2	Darauf wird die Erde sich verneigen. (Schmidt 1974: 293)

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.
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.

Remarks

*	Right part of a very large leaf. The first line of the recto is almost completely lost except for two unreadable akṣaras.

References

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.

PK AS 13B

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