PK AS 15B

Known as:	PK AS 15B; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 15B
Cite this page as:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator). "PK AS 15B". 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-pkas15b (accessed 17 Dec. 2025).
Edition
Editor:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator)
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:	Departure of the Bodhisattva?
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Object
Manuscript:	PK AS 15
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	11.5 × 12.9 cm
Number of lines:	7
Interline spacing:	1.7 cm

Transliteration

a1	(– –) – s(·) ṣk(·) sn ///
a2	[tu] [me](·) ka nte nma [yaiṃ] (–) – (·)m ///
a3	[ya¯] [¯]rm[ä] [s]nai ke [ś]ä – – s̝pa mā rñä kte ///
a4	tā [u]o [ro] [tsai] p[r]o skai sa pre ntse [b]raṃ ○ ///
a5	ntu k·e \|\| kau nyo ko yw[ā]¯ ¯rcä me ñyo ko ○ ///
a6	[y]e t[w]e ṣṣi [ceṃ¯] [¯ts] pa lyca pa lyci pā lau pā l[au] tsa – ///
a7	[ls](·)o po – ¯r^• c· sa l[pm]oṃ – nta lyci ka meṃ tsa ktsi – ///
b1	– – – – ·y(·) ·c[o] nai ṣṣe – kuse sa tri ko ṣra mno ///
b2	sa – sa [lp]· ñ[c]ä¯ ¯nä yo¯ ¯k wä sko «sa» nau [my]e ṣṣe su w[ä] ///
b3	[ṣe] [m]i ṣe ca ki o ksaiṃ ra mno nu wä ṣyeṃ ○ ///
b4	ku – [y]n· sa ke(·) ts[a] pru kno yeṃ • t[oṃ] we ○ ///
b5	we śe [ñ]ñ[a] : ya kṣa ññ[a] [n]· tai wa[ṃ] ñña ///
b6	– ·tse pā ke ne [p]e (·)e a k[ṣ]a l·o ///
b7	– – – – ·i ya ///

a1	n1 – – – s· ṣk·s n· ///
a2	n2 tume(ṃ) käntenma yaiṃ – – ·m· /// (snai)
a3	yarm snai keś{†ä} – – ṣpä mār-ñäkte ///
a4	tā_u orotsai proskaisa prentse braṃ(-ñäkte) ///
a5	ntuk(n)e ॥ kaun yoko ywārc meñ yoko ///
a6	n3 yetweṣṣi ceṃts pälyca pälyci pālau pālau tsa – ///
a7	n4 n5 ls(k)o po(rse)r c(ai) sälpmoṃ – ntalyci kameṃ tsaktsi – ///
b1	– – – – ·y· (ś)conaiṣṣe (śa)k_usesa trikoṣ ram no ///
b2	n6 sa – sälp(e)ñcän yok wäskosa naumyeṣṣe su wä° ///
b3	ṣemi ṣecaki oksaiṃ ram no nuwäṣyeṃ ///
b4	n7 ku – yn· sa ke(n)tsa pruknoyeṃ • toṃ we° ///
b5	weśeñña : yakṣaññan(a) tai waṃñña ///
b6	n8 – ·tse pākene pe ·e akṣal·o ///
b7	– – – – ·i yä° ///

*	This is the left part of a leaf with the string hole.

n1	ṣkas may be part of a deminutive in -ṣk(e).
n4	ntalyci is the end of an adjective made to an l-stem, such as mantalyci 'irritated'.
n6	sälpeñcän does not inflect like a normal participle; Obl.pl. as epithet of yok and wesko is probably an oblique dual of a form of sälpeu*.

n2	yaiṃ could also be yeṃ.
n3	After tsa there is maybe a [ry], but there is also something below.
n5	After tsaksi there is probably [mu].
n7	The beginning could perhaps be kura-yknesa.
n8	The vowel before ·tse is a or o. pe could also be ṣe.