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PK AS 7D

Known as:PK AS 7D; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 7D; K 4
Cite this page as:Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator). "PK AS 7D". 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-pkas7d (accessed 23 Jan. 2026).

Edition

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

Provenience

Main find spot:Duldur-akur
Specific find spot:DA cour
Expedition code:DA cour
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:Karmavibhaṅga
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:Karmavibhaṅga β
Preceding fragment:PK AS 7C
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):8 × 4.1 cm
Number of lines:6
Interline spacing:1.3 cm

Images

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Transliteration

(continues from PK AS 7C)

lf30 4
a1yā mtsi pyu [tka] (–) ///
a2(– – – – – – – –) pa lsko śpā (– – – – – – – – –) ///
a3/// cā [k]ka¯ ¯r ka rs (– – – – – – –) ///
a4/// mo rtne pa l[sk]o – (– – – – –) ///
a5/// kuse su ai [t] (– –) ///
a6/// tā ka rmeṃ ///
b1/// ññe e ṅka ///
b2/// ta nma ske ///
b3(– – – – – –) ci ma ske n[t]ra ///
b4/// rmeṃ po staṃ ///
b5/// ca mpeṃ ṣñi [ke] ///
b6ntra e kñi ññ[e] ///

Transcription

(continues from PK AS 7C)

lf30-4
22a(mā) (no) (yamaṣäṃ) ; (mā) (tu) a1 yāmtsi pyutkä(ṣṣäṃ)
23a/// a2 ; (wäntarwaṃts) (yamalläññe) (:)
23bpalsko śpā(lmeṃ) (ste) ; (palsko) (yparwe) – – –
24a/// a3 (tumeṃ) (cwi) (lakle) ; (ompostäṃ) (yaṃ) (cmelane) (:)
24b(yāmorṣṣe) cākkär ; kärs(nāmane) (tseṅketär) (:)
25a/// a4n1 (mäksu) (no) (yāmor) ; (yāmu) (śle-k) (ṣpä) (kakraupau:)
25b(kuse) (su) (yā)mor ; tne pälsko(rmeṃ) – – – –
25d/// a5(20-5)
26a(kuse) (no) (su) (yāmor) ; (mā) (yāmu) (mā) (kakraupau) (:)
26bkuse su ait(katte) ; ///
1aa6 (ṣemi) (ksa) (wnolmi) ; (skwassoñc) (tne) (nauṣä-k) ; (ta)tākarmeṃ ///
1bb1 (yakne) (weñau) ; (ṣeme-pälsko) (päklyauṣso) (:)
1c(tane) (ksa) (ṣemi) ; – – – – ; (ekñi)ññe eṅka(skentär) (:)
1d/// (ompostäṃ) ; (onmissoñc) (no) (mäskentär) (:)
2ab2 (cai) (no) (onolmi) ; – – – – – ; (śateṃ) (ostne) tänmaske(ntär) ; ///
2b(ekññīnenta) ; (po) (ayāto) (kälpāskeṃ) (:)
2cb3 – – – – – ; (snai)ci mäskenträ ; ///
2d(skwassu) ; (postäṃ) (lakle) (wärpnāträ) (:)
3ab4n2 (mäksu) (no) (yāmor) ; (kucesa) (onolmi) ; (nauṣ) (läklessoñc) (tatāka)rmeṃ ; postäṃ (skwassoñc) (mäskentär) (:)
3b/// (wentsi) (aunaskentär) (kauc) ; (eṅkaskentär) (laklesa) (:)
3cb5 (aiskeman=) (āyor) /// campeṃ ṣñike(k) ///
3d/// (।mā) (onmiṃ) (yamaskentär) ; (katkemane) (mäskentär) (:)
4a/// b6 °nträ ekñiññe ///

Translation

(continues from PK AS 7C)

(but he does not do it)
a1(and) he takes (no) measure to do (it). [22a]
a1+(... the doing of things,) [23a]
a2the mind [is] the best,
a2(the mind comes first.) ... [23b]
a2+(Thereupon the suffering follows him in the rebirths), [24a]
a3the wheel (of the deed), the cutting one (rises up). [24b] ...
a3+(But which is the deed which has been done and at the same time accumulated?) [25a]
a4(It is this) deed (which has been done) here (after having) thought of ... [25d]
a5(But which is the deed which has not been done and not accumulated?) [26a]
a5[It is this deed] which has been done unintentionally. [26b] ... [26d]
a5+(Some beings) having been (happy here previously indeed) ... [1a]
a6+(... I will tell the way.)
b1(Listen attentively! ) [1b]
b1(Here some beings ...) they seize possession. [1c]
b1(... But afterwards they are full of remorse.) [1d]
b1+(But these beings ...) are born (in a rich house) ... [2a]
b2... (they obtain the possessions and everything pleasant.) [2b]
b3... they become deprived of ... [2c]
b3(... first happy, he feels suffering afterwards.) [2d]
b3+(But which is the deed by which the beings after having) been (full of suffering first,) afterwards (become happy?) [3a]
b4(... they begin to speak loudly,
b4but they hold on [to it = the gift] even under pain,) [3b]
b4+(while giving the gift ...) they can for sure ... [3c]
b5(... they do not feel remorse,)
b5(they become joyful.) [3d]
b5+... they (hold?) [their] possessions ... [4a]

Commentary

Parallel texts

*THT 521; Mahākarmavibhaṅga §§ 24-26 (Lévi 1932: 48, 121-122) (until a6); Mahākarmavibhaṅga §§ 33-34 (Lévi 1932: 65-66, 132-133) (from a6 onwards)

Philological commentary

*The text is completed with the help of the partially parallel manuscript THT 521. In the first part the meter is the same as in PK AS 7C (4 x 12 = 5/7), after stanza 26 the meter changes to 4 x 25 (5/5/8/7), cf. the meter name bahudantākne in THT 521 a 5.
n2Note that in the pāda 3b Sieg 1938: 19 proposed to restore aiskenträ ‘they give’ before kauc, but the context rather seems to imply a public pledge which is contradicted by the actual behavior.

Remarks

*Leaf PK AS 7C immediately precedes this fragment.

Linguistic commentary

n1The restoration pälskosa by Sieg 1938: 14 (which would, by the way, be an archaic form) cannot be correct since the sign ‹sa› is part of a ligatura. Therefore a restoration to the absolutive pälskormeṃ is more likely.

References

other

Lévi 1933: 88; Sieg 1938: 14-19

Bibliography

Lévi 1932

Lévi, Sylvain. 1932. Mahākarmavibhaṅga (La grande classification des actes) et Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa (Discussion sur le Mahā Karmavibhaṅga). Paris: Leroux.

Lévi 1933

Lévi, Sylvain. 1933. Fragments de textes koutchéens. Udānavarga, Udānastotra, Udānālaṁkāra et Karmavibhaṅga, publiés et traduits avec un vocabulaire et une introduction sur le «tokharien». Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.

Sieg 1938

Sieg, Emil. 1938. “Die Kutschischen Karmavibhaṅga-Texte der Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 65: 1–54.