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PK Bois B31

Known as:	PK Bois B31; Pelliot Koutchéen Bois B31; LP 32
Cite this page as:	"PK Bois B31". 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-pkbois_b31 (accessed 08 Dec. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shaldirang
Specific find spot:	Watchtower
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Laissez-passer
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on wood tablet
Form:	Woodslip
Size (h × w):	2.5–2.32 × 13.37–12.35 cm
Number of lines:	2

Transliteration

a1	trai yne • o ro ce pi lā nte s[w]a rna te pi kṣu·
a2	ne o rśa cā ka re ā kṣa

Transcription

a1	traiyne • orocepi lānte swarnatepi kṣu(ṃ)¬
a2	¬nen1 orśa cākare ākṣa

Commentary

Remarks

*	thickness 0,73–0,47 cm

Philological commentary

n1	For the reading orśa cākare instead of a compound or-śacakare, see Ogihara and Pinault 2010: 186f.

References

Edition

Lévi 1913: 317; Pinault 1987: 95

Bibliography

Lévi 1913

Lévi, Sylvain. 1913. “Le « tokharien В », langue de Koutcha.” Journal Asiatique 11e série, 2: 311–80.

Ogihara and Pinault 2010

Ogihara, Hirotoshi, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2010. “Un fragment de planchette de bois en tokharien B.” Journal Asiatique 298.1: 173–202.

Pinault 1987

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1987. “Épigraphie koutchéenne. I. Laissez-passer de caravanes. II. Graffites et inscriptions.” Sites divers de la région de Koutcha, Mission Paul Pelliot, Documents archéologiques, 8: 59–196 + XL.