PK AS 6L

Known as:	PK AS 6L; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 6L
Cite this page as:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator). "PK AS 6L". 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-pkas6l (accessed 10 Dec. 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):	5.5 × 12 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.

a1	/// k· [ly]· (– – – –) ta ///
a2	/// kla s̝s̝a lyi kau ta tsi yā mtsi c[a] ///
a3	/// – ṣ(·)a ○ nne te yä kne ce ta ṅwa ///
a4	/// ○ ññā la nmeṃ : ña ke ṣa – ///
a5	/// (·)e(·)¯ ¯s śau la sso¯ ¯ñc ñä ///
a6	/// [le] – ·[e] ///
b1	///
b2	/// ·[t]· a ntse [ṣ]ṣ[e] se [r]k· ·[n]· ///
b3	/// ○ spā rtta ske ntra o mpo staṃ ///
b4	/// ra [ka] ○ ṣṣī po yśi ñä śyā mṣa ///
b5	/// [a] ñma ññe ma¯ ¯r ñä śceṃ trai me ñä ·e ///
b6	/// (·)ai [k](·)e : – – – – ·au – – ///

a1	/// k·ly· – – – – tä° ///
a2	/// (a)klaṣṣälyi kautatsi yāmtsi ca(mpeṃ) ///
a3	/// – ṣ·anne te-yäkne ce täṅwa(ññe) ///
a4	/// °ññ= ālanmeṃ : ñake ṣa – ///
a5	/// °e(ṃt)s śaulassoñc ñä(kciyi) ///
a6	/// °le – ·e° ///
b1	///
b2	/// ·t· antseṣṣe serk(e) ·n· ///
b3	/// spārttäskenträ ompostäṃ ///
b4	/// °r{†ä} käṣṣī poyśiñäś yāmṣa° ///
b5	/// añmaññemar ñäś ceṃ trai meñä(nn)e ///
b6	/// (pel)aik(n)e : – – – – ·au – – ///

a1	...
a2	... the pupils (are able) to do the splitting ...
a3	... this love(ly) [person] of that sort ...
a4	... from elsewhere. Now ...
a5	... of the ... honorable [pl.], divine [pl.] ...
a6	...
b1	...
b2	... the circle of the skandhas ...
b3	... they make turn afterwards ...
b4	... to the teacher, to the omniscient one, (he/they) made ...
b5	... I desire, I, in these three months ...
b6	... the Law ...

*	Line b1 is almost lost except the bottom of two aksaras.