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PK AS 6I

Known as:PK AS 6I; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 6I
Cite this page as:Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator). "PK AS 6I". 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-pkas6i (accessed 07 Nov. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator)
Date of online publication:2012-02

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:Udānālaṅkāra
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:Udānālaṅkāra PK AS 6 etc.
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):8 × 8.2 cm
Number of lines:7
Interline spacing:1.2 cm

Images

Images from gallica.bnf.fr by courtesy of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Pelliot koutchéen.

Transliteration

a1/// [ta]¯ ¯[r] ṣa¯ ¯ñ [kr](·) ntya kne : ///
a2/// [k]a sa • toṃ pa lska lyñe nta ///
a3/// ¯ñc [la] kle sa mka ○ ///
a4/// [ai] śau mye (–) (·)[k](·) (·)k(·) nā ○ ///
a5/// ·[m]· mā wa sa sta ○ ///
a6/// [kwa] reṃ yä lloṃ ṣṣeṃ ya ///
a7/// [kle] [w]ä rpa na ta¯ ¯r ///
b1/// – kuse mā ca m[pe] ///
b2/// ta rka¯ ¯ñc a śā w[e] ///
b3/// (·)k(·) lyñe nta e ṅka ṣli ○ ///
b4/// [lyñ](·) nta pa(·) (·)[ko] ā ○ ///
b5/// ma [lyñ]e [w]ä ntrā ○ ///
b6/// ·mwe pre te pa pā ṣṣu śle ///
b7/// – ¯[y] [m](·) (·)e ta[¯] [¯r] ṣa¯ ¯[ñ] – ///

Transcription

a1/// °tar ṣañ kr(e)nt yakne : ///
a2/// °kasa • toṃ palskalyñenta ///
a3/// °ñc lakle sam ka° ///
a4/// aiśaumye – ·k· ·k· nā° ///
a5/// (wästsan)m(a) mā wasästä(r) ///
a6/// (rät)kwareṃ yälloṃṣṣeṃ ya(kweṃ) ///
a7/// (la)kle wärpanatär ///
b1/// – kuse mā campe(ṃ) ///
b2n1 /// tarkäñc aśāwe(ñ) ///
b3/// ·k·lyñenta eṅkaṣli ///
b4/// °lyñ·nta pa(ls)ko ā° ///
b5/// (la)malyñe wäntr= ā° ///
b6/// (aiś)mw eprete papāṣṣu śle ///
b7/// – y m(usk)etär ṣañ – ///

Translation

a1... he does ... in his own good way ...
a2... with/by ... These meditations ...
a3... the suffering ... that one over there ...
a4... wisdom ...
a5... he does not make wear the (cloth)es ...
a6... the (st)rong ho(rses) of the sense-functions ...
a7... he feels suffering ...
b1... the ones who were not able to ...
b2... the twisted (?) [ones], the rough [ones] ...
b3... they are bound to seize ...
b4... the thought ...
b5...the residing/sitting, the thing ...
b6... wise and resolut, having observed with ...
b7... he (per)ishes, his own ...

Commentary

Remarks

*Left part of a leaf with the string hole.

Linguistic commentary

n1tarkäñc can be the nom.pl.masc. of an nt-stem made from the root "± to twist" (the root "to emit" is excluded because it has A-character).