PK DA M 507.15

Known as:	PK DA M 507.15; Pelliot Koutchéen Duldur Aqur M 507(15); Pelliot Koutchéen Compatibilité de monastère 15 [PK Cp 15]
Cite this page as:	"PK DA M 507.15". 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-pkda507_15 (accessed 11 Mar. 2026).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Duldur-akur
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Account
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Size (h × w):	38 × 12.5–10.5 cm
Number of lines:	5
Interline spacing:	3–3.5 cm

Transliteration

a1	/// ·o¯ ¯m 9
a2	/// l· ā rye klā te cā¯ ¯k 1
a3	/// [l]ye kśi ma sa wi ca ka nma 2
a4	/// pa lye kśi ye ma sa ṣu¯ ¯k ca ka nma 7 ṣu¯ ¯k to¯ ¯m 7
a5	/// [ma] sa śa kṣe «†pi» ca ka nma to¯ ¯wä pi¯ ¯ś 10-1 5

Transcription

a1	/// (t)om 9
a2	/// l· ārye klāte cāk 1
a3	/// lyekśi{ye} masa wi cakanma 2
a4	/// °pä lyekśiye masa ṣuk cakanma 7 ṣuk tom 7
a5	/// masa śak ṣe cakanma tow piś 10-1 5

Translation

a1	/// [9] pecks.
a2	/// (sb.) took ...: 1 picul.
a3	/// the millet l. has been spent : 2 piculs.
a4	/// ... the millet l. has been spent : 7 piculs, [7?, 8?]
a5	/// ... [has been spent] : 11 piculs, 5 pecks.

Commentary

Remarks

*	Two hands: (1) lines 1–2, (2) lines 3–5.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008	C
Tamai 2011	C14

References

other

Pinault 0000: 20-21; Ching 2010: 200

Bibliography

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Pinault 0000

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 0000. “Textes économiques koutchéens.”

Tamai 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.