PK AS 19.3

Known as:	PK AS 19.3; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 19.1 (number in 1982)
Cite this page as:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Hannes A. Fellner (collaborator). "PK AS 19.3". 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-pkas193 (accessed 12 Feb. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Hannes A. Fellner (collaborator)
Date of online publication:	2014-07
Provenience
Expedition code:	M 504.3 (provisional number 1374)
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:	Pratītyasamutpāda
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Abhidharma
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	PK AS 19
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	6.5 × 16.7 cm
Number of lines:	5
Interline spacing:	1.2 cm

Images

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a1	– – – ·[y]· [m]· ly[e] • wa ltsa na nme • ṣ· meṃ au ṣ[e]¯ ¯n[ä] ///
a2	kka – – [n]e [pa] neṃ • ṣe kka pka nte sa a lye ṅkaṃ tse pe nne ///
a3	n[e] – – – [nm]e : ṣe meṃ pi lke m[l]o – ○ pau kseṃ : a [t]· ///
a4	– – – – (–) [k]ā ts· [nm]e : mī [s]a – – – ṣ[ñ]au [r]a pa ssoṃ ///
a5	– – – – – /// [ly]· t[au] yo – ///
b1	– – – – – – /// – – – ///
b2	– (–) – – – (–) e[ṃ] [ṣk]e t· – – – – [ṅk]pa lk[au] sai k[e] nn· ///
b3	mau – – [nn]· – – sk·ṃ • a lyai[¯] [¯k] ○ śo li ne rre s(·)[e] ///
b4	lttsa me· ṣṣī ye nme tu meṃ nrai ṣṣai tsa kā [ṣṣ]· kke [n]ts· pa tta ṅke nme ///
b5	la t[sa] ṅka nme • eṃ ṣke ka nte ya ltse wa rtta ntsa ta rka na nme • – ///

a1	n1 – – – ·y· m·lye • waltsanan-me • ṣ(e)meṃ auṣen /// (ṣe)¬
a2	¬kkan2 – – ne paneṃ • ṣekka pkantesa alyeṅkäṃ tsepenne ///
a3	ne – – – nme : ṣemeṃ pilke mlo(ṣsa) – paukseṃ : at· ///
a4	n3 – – – – – kāts(a)n-me : mīsa – – – ṣñaura passoṃ(tsa) ///
a5	– – – – – /// (o)ly(i)tau yo – ///
b1	– – – – – – /// – – – ///
b2	– – – – – – eṃṣke t(ot) – – – – ṅk pälkausai kenn(e) ///
b3	mau – – nn· – – sk(e)ṃ • alyaik śoline rres(k)e(mane) /// (śau)¬
b4	¬lttsa me(ṃ)ṣṣīyen-me tumeṃ nraiṣṣai tsakāṣṣ(ai) kkents(a) pättaṅken-me /// (śwa)¬
b5	¬län3 tsaṅkan-me • eṃṣke kante yaltse warttäntsa tarkanan-me • – ///

a1	... they crush them. Some of them they ...
a2	... continuously they stretch in (?) ... continuously they crosswise ... others in the tsepe ...
a3	... some of them they sprinkle (?) with molten copper ...
a4	... they whet them. The flesh ... the sinews, the muscles ...
b2	... until that ... on the illuminated earth ...
b3	... they ... Other ones flowing in the hearth ...
b4	... they kept worrying for their life. Thereupon they give up them on the thorny ground of hell.
b5	... they flay their flesh. Until they throw them by hundreds, thousands, myriads (?).

*	This text shows both unexpected geminates at the beginning of words (rres(k)e(mane) in b3, kkents(a) in b4) and simplification of geminates (paneṃ in a2).

*	The fragments of the PK AS 19 series (19.1-19.22) all belong to the same manuscript. There are traces of the leaf number on left margin of the verso. Left side of a leaf including the string hole. The string hole seems only to interrupt the third line.

n1	The gap is about 5.5 cm.
n2	The first readable word of the line could be read as paneṃ and belong to the root pänn- as subjunctive 3.pl. if one excepts reduction of the geminate. However, the reading is not clear.
n3	The paper is very damaged. There might be traces of akṣaras from another manuscript. It is possible that the string hole also interrupts this line.