PK AS 7J
| Known as: | PK AS 7J; Pelliot Koutchéen Ancienne Série 7J; K 10 |
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| Cite this page as: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator). "PK AS 7J". 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-pkas7j (accessed 18 Feb. 2026). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Michaël Peyrot (collaborator) |
| Date of online publication: | 2012-02 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Duldur-akur |
| Expedition code: | 496 |
| Collection: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris) |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Add. linguistic characteristics: | archaic; late |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Karmavibhaṅga |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Doctrine |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
| Meter: | 4335 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | Karmavibhaṅga β |
| Preceding fragment: | PK AS 7I |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Size (h × w): | 8.2 × 37.5 cm |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
| Interline spacing: | 1.3 cm |
Images
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Transliteration
(continues from PK AS 7I)
| lf | 40 |
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| a1 | s̝s̝aṃ wro tsa na ta nma stra yña(·) t(·)(·) : ra me r[n]o s̝pa (·)(·)[lp](·) tra sa(·) sā rme nne rvāṃ yä nmā s̝s̝aṃ : toṃ pa rkā wnta śa kma ske ntra cpī kuse śka mai yya ntse : pū dñä kte ntse pta (– – – – – – –) |
| a2 | s̝aṃ ya rke 10 8 śa kpa rkā wä nta wä ssi ai ṣṣe ñca ka [lpā] s̝s̝aṃ wno lme : ta ka rṣka ññe e rṣe ñca ma ske tra ka rtse lkā tsi ne : ta ka lñe ne s̝pa wlai śke ye tse (– – – – – – – –) |
| a3 | ye tse [ta] [ṅwa] ññe wno lme ntse ṣe¯ ¯k ○ cpī ma ske tra 10 9 mā cpī tau ra mā twe ye ke ktse ñä[¯] [¯]śc ma wa tswe ta rnta : wä ssa nma s̝pa a rtkye ma ske nta rne (– – – – – – –) |
| a4 | s̝pa ma ske(·) ra po y(·) (·)e(·) (·)kre nta wä ○ ssa nma : ya se kwī pe sa ṣe kma ske ta rsu ke ke nu wno lme 20 l[ā] re ṣe kcä ñcre lkā tsi ma ske tra wro tse e kñi ñ(·)e : (– – – – – – –) |
| a5 | ra me [r]kk(·) ne rvāṃ [yä] [n]mā s̝s̝aṃ : toṃ te ykne sa pa rkā wnta wro tsa na y[ä] nmā s̝s̝aṃ wno lme : kuse a lye ke pi wa ssi ai ṣṣe ñca cme la ne tā kaṃ 20-1 || || ni ṣkra mā (– – – – – – – – –) |
| a6 | yä rpo nta ṣṣeṃ klau tkeṃ a nai śai : ya rpo kwä lype lle ke [t](·)(·) (– –) me pa lsko klyau ṣtsi cpyai kne te : śa kpa rkā wä nta ma ske ntra cpyo no lme ntse lwā ke kuse ai s̝s̝aṃ : [ś]· – – – – (– – – –) |
| b1 | ṅka ntse wa¯ ¯t da [kṣ](·) ṇā keṃ tswa¯ ¯t• : lwā ke ta tā k[au] [ma] (– –) (·)u cm(·) la ne kreṃ tpe lai kne ntse : ṣma re ma lla rṣke ma ske ta rne pa lsko s̝pa wlai śke [p]au ta rṣke : (– – – – – – – – – –) |
| b2 | wyo ko k[r]ā [sa] s̝[s̝]aṃ ṣe¯ ¯k : tā kaṃ yo kai tse krui pā kri ma ske ta rne yo ktsi e ne pre 2 pre te nne mā su ta nma stra cpī yā mo rntse o ko sa kre nta : lwā ksa bhā (– – – – – – – – –) |
| b3 | tū sa cme la ne : (–) kta nī ke ○ ntsa snai me ṅkī ma ske nta rs̝pa wro tse e kñi ññe : yña kteṃ ta nma stra ra me rs̝pa saṃ sā rmeṃ pe¯ ¯st lna s̝s̝aṃ tsa [lp] (– – – – – – – – –) |
| b4 | rkā wä [nta] [cpī] ra no nano [k]śa kma skeṃ tra : ○ śau lpa rkreṃ yä nmā s̝s̝aṃ e re ne ka rtse s̝pa ṣe kṣe kma ske tra (–) [skwa] s[su] ma ske tra we [ñe] nta spa ntai tse s̝pa pra ti (– – – – – –) |
| b5 | ññe tse ko r(·)o tra ka tke ma ne po nta we rtsya nne 4 lā (·)e [ma] ske ta rs̝pa mā ka o no lmeṃ tsṣe kwro tse e k[ñ]i ññ[e] : yña kteṃ ta nma stra ra me [rs̝pa] saṃ sā rmeṃ pe (– – – – – – –) |
| b6 | śa kpa rkā w(·) (·)a yä nmā s̝s̝aṃ o no lme sū kuse [św]ā t(·)i [ai] s̝s̝aṃ : ñä kcye ne rvāṃ ṣe s̝pa sa kwa rpa tsyā ñme ke tsū [ś]w(·) tsi ā yi 5 śa [kpa] rkā wä nta pa nnā ka n[t]a (– – – – – – – –) |
Transcription
(continues from PK AS 7I)
| lf | 40 |
| 18a | (ekñiññenta) (yänmā)a1ṣṣäṃn1 ; wrotsana tänmasträ yña(k)t(eṃ) : |
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| 18b | ramer no ṣpä (tsä)lp(e)trä ; sa(ṃ)sārmen nervāṃ yänmāṣṣäṃ : |
| 18c | toṃ pärkāwnta śak mäskenträ ; cpī kuse śka-maiyyantse : |
| 18d | pūdñäktentse pta(ntse) (kul) ; (ailñesa) (yama)a2ṣäṃ yarke 10-8 |
| 19a | śak pärkāwänta wässi ; aiṣṣeñca kälpāṣṣäṃ wnolme : |
| 19b | takärṣkäññe erṣeñca ; mäsketrä kärtse lkātsine : |
| 19c | takälñene ṣpä wlaiśke ; yetse (mäsketrä) (cmelane) (:) |
| 19d | (ṣmare) a3n2 yetse täṅwaññe ; wnolmentse ṣek cpī mäsketrä 10-9 |
| 20a | mā cpī taurä mā tweye ; kektseñäśc ma wa= tswetär nta : |
| 20b | wässanma ṣpä artkye ; mäskentär-ne – – – – (:) |
| 20c | (kalpauca) a4n3 ṣpä mäske(t)rä ; po-y(kn)e(sa) krenta wässanma : |
| 20d | yase kwīpesa ṣek ; mäsketär su kekenu wnolme 20 |
| 21a | lāre ṣek cäñcre lkātsi ; mäsketrä wrotse ekñiñ(ñ)e : |
| 21b | (iñakteṃ) (su) (tänmasträ) ; a5 rämer kk(a) nervāṃ yänmāṣṣäṃ : |
| 21c | toṃ te-yknesa pärkāwnta ; wrotsana yänmāṣṣäṃ wnolme : |
| 21d | kuse alyekepi wassi ; aiṣṣeñca cmelane tākaṃ 20-1 ॥ |
| * | ॥ niṣkramā(ntne) (॥) |
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Translation
(continues from PK AS 7I)
| a1 | (He obtains) great (possessions) |
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| a1 | [and] is reborn among the gods, [18a] |
| a1 | and he is quickly redeemed from the saṃsāra |
| a1 | [and] he reaches the nirvāṇa. [18b] |
| a1 | These [preceding ones] are the ten advantages of the one who (through donation of a bell) [18c] to the stūpa of the one provided with ten forces, of the Buddha lord pays homage. |
| a2 | [18d] |
| a2 | The being that gives cloth [also] obtains ten advantages. [19a] |
| a2 | Evoking gracefulness, he becomes good to look at, [19b] |
| a2 | and [his] skin (is) soft in touching (in the rebirths). [19c] |
| a2+ | The skin of this being is always smooth [and] lovely. |
| a3 | [19d] |
| a3 | No dust nor ashes does ever stick to [his] body, [20a] |
| a3 | and clothes (and carpets) come to him in abundance, [20b] |
| a3+ | and he becomes (the obtainer) of nice clothes of every kind. [20c] |
| a4 | This being is always provided with shame [and] decency. |
| a4 | [20d] |
| a4 | He is always lovely [and] charming to look at, [and] provided with great possession. [21a] |
| a4 | (This one is reborn among the gods), |
| a4+ | very quickly he reaches the nirvāṇa. [21b] |
| a5 | Such [are] the great advantages [that] the being obtains [21c] who will be the giver of cloth to another one in his births. |
| a5 | [21d] |
| a5 | In the [tune] Niṣkramānta. |
| a5+ | (Now I will tell) carefully the effects of (further) meritorious deeds. [1a] |
| a6 | The one who (would have) a desire for merit, his duty is to listen to this [following] attentively [lit. with unified mind]: [1b] |
| a6 | ten advantages come [also] to this being who gives a pot, [1c] ... |
| a6+ | to the saṃgha or to worthy ones. [1d] |
| b1 | This one will become a pot of the good Law in the rebirths, [2a] |
| b1 | and his mind is fine, smooth, soft, and appealing. [2b] |
| b1+ | (And never in his rebirths severe) thirst vexes this one. [2c] |
| b2 | If he gets thirsty, drink appears before him. |
| b2 | [2d] |
| b2 | He is not reborn among the ghosts through the good fruit of this deed. [3a] |
| b2+ | So (he has no shortage) of pots and recip(ients) in the rebirths, [3b] |
| b3 | and he has no shortage of servants [and he has] great possession. [3c] |
| b3 | He is reborn among the gods |
| b3 | and quickly he definitely leaves the saṃsāra |
| b3 | [and] is redeemed. |
| b3 | [3d] |
| b3+ | (The one who gives food,) to this one also ten advantages come again. [4a] |
| b4 | He obtains long life |
| b4 | and always indeed he becomes good in appearance, [4b] |
| b4 | he becomes happy and a self-confident speaker, (a maker) of decisions, [4c] |
| b4+ | full of (confid)ence and being joyful he enters [lit. descends] in all assemblies. |
| b5 | [4d] |
| b5 | And he is always dear to many beings, he has great possession, [5a] |
| b5 | he his reborn among the gods |
| b5 | and quickly he definitely (leaves) the saṃsāra |
| b5 | [and] (is redeemed). [5b] |
| b5+ | (These) [are] the ten advantages [that] this being obtains who gives food. [5c] |
| b6 | The one who has the wish to receive the happiness of the divine [world] and of the nirvāṇa, he should give food. |
| b6 | [5d] |
| b6 | Ten advantages (again come to the one who gives) shoes. [6a] |
Other
| a2 | Zehn Vorteile erlangt das Kleidung schenkende Wesen. (Schmidt 1974: 194) |
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| a3 | Nicht ist ihm Staub, nicht Schmutz, noch auch haftet er an [seinem] Körper. (Schmidt 1974: 284) |
| a5 | Such great profits obtains a being that is giving clothing to another in its births. (cf 45) (Peyrot 2013b: 703) |
| b1+ | ... (in) [seinen] Geburten) quält ihn (nicht) der Durst ständig. (Schmidt 1974: 168) |
| b2 | If he is thirsty, drink appears in front of him. (cf 46) (Peyrot 2013b: 313) |
| b4+ | (Zuversicht)lich [und] freudig begibt er sich [wtl. steigt er herab] in alle Versammlungen. (Schmidt 1974: 270) |
| b6 | Who has the wish to receive the happiness of the gods and the nirvāṇa, he should donate food. (cf 48) (Peyrot 2013b: 307) |
Commentary
Linguistic commentary
| In general, again also in this fragment of the manuscript we have archaic beside late forms: wässi (a2 but later standard wassi in a5), ma (a3), pest (b3, b5), kärtse (b4); final -ä can be preserved in colon-final position. |
Parallel texts
| Mahākarmavibhaṅga §§ 65-66, 68-70 (Lévi 1932: 87-89, 91-94, 144-146) |
Philological commentary
| The meter is 4 x 15 (7/8 or 8/7) in the first part until line a5; then it changes to 4 x 17 (5/7/5 or 6/6/5). | |
| n1 | The second colon of pāda 18c has one syllable too few. In order to recover it, one may read the late variant śika-maiyya of the adjective śka-maiyya ‘having ten powers’ known otherwise from eastern TB documents (cf. Peyrot 2008: 57). This again confirms the assumption that the scribe of this manuscript spoke a progressive variant of the language. |
| n2 | The reading artkye as per Sieg 1938: 45 is certain. Therefore, the first colon lacks one syllable, which can be recovered by reading the expected prose form artkiye. It seems likely that this word corresponds to Skt. prabhūta- ‘abundant’. Since the Sanskrit text afterwards mentions Skt. āstaraṇa- ‘carpet, rug, bed cloth, blanket’ in addition to vastra- ‘clothes’, one may restore in the lacuna the corresponding TB word raktsi, in the plural räktsanma, maybe plus ṣpä. |
| n3 | Pāda 20d seems to have a wrong segmentation 6/9 instead of 7/8. Unless one accepts this deviation, one may read ṣekä at the end of the first colon (as in b2) and mäsketär at the beginning of the next. |
| n4 | The Sanskrit original does not help in restoring the seven syllables of the lacuna. One may, however, surmise that it contained nouns referring to other receivers of this gift. In addition, one may expect a mention of the complete saṃgha in contrast to individual monks. |
| n5 | The last colon of pāda 2c has one syllable too few, but it is easy to get the required number by reading the archaic form ṣekä, i.e. without virāma. Cf. metrically correct 〈krenta〉 at the end of pāda 3a. |
| n6 | Pace Sieg 1938: 47 it is not necessary to correct the plural verb in the clause snai meṅkī mäskentär into singular snai meṅkī mäsketär, because one may have an agreement ad sensum with the plural noun referring to ‘servants’ or the plural is triggered by the existence of another, following subject. |
Remarks
| The fragment PK AS 7I immediately precedes this one. |
References
other
Lévi 1933: 95-96; Sieg 1938: 44-48; Couvreur 1949b: 75-78
Translations
Meunier 2013: a1 a2 (164), b2 (133); Peyrot 2013b: a5 (703), b2 (313), b6 (307); Schmidt 1974: a2 (194), a3 (284), b1 b2 (168), b4 b5 (270)
Bibliography
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Lévi, Sylvain. 1932. Mahākarmavibhaṅga (La grande classification des actes) et Karmavibhaṅgopadeśa (Discussion sur le Mahā Karmavibhaṅga). Paris: Leroux.
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