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PK DA M 507.20

Known as:PK DA M 507.20; Pelliot Koutchéen Duldur Aqur M 507(20); Pelliot Koutchéen Compatibilité de monastère 20 [PK Cp 20]
Cite this page as:"PK DA M 507.20". 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_20 (accessed 12 Dec. 2025).

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):38.5 × 14.7–12.4 cm
Number of lines:7
Interline spacing:3–5.5 cm

Transliteration

a1/// lne ṣka cce meṃ ne ṣu kme ña ntse ne
a2/// ·w· ma ṣṣe o ko ṣe ya¯ ¯p śka ka lwā
a3/// – ṅka ntse śwa si ṣe ya¯ ¯p klā te c❠¯k 1
a4/// – ṣṣai meṃ o ko ṣṣai ysā re klā te śwā ra
a5/// ke rca pi śke ntse ka pci
a6/// [su] ta te ku ṣai meṃ ya¯ ¯p klā nte ta rya
a7/// [p]i śke ku ṣai nmeṃ ya¯ ¯p klā te wi ca

Transcription

a1/// (piku)lne ṣkacce meṃne ṣuk meñantse -ne
a2/// (ñ)w(e)maṣṣe okoṣe yap śka kälwā¬
a3¬(wa) /// (sa)ṅkantse śwasiṣe yap klāte cāk 1
a4/// (ku)ṣṣaimeṃ okoṣṣai ysāre klāte śwāra
a5/// kercapiśkentse kapci
a6/// sutate kuṣaimeṃ yap klānte tarya
a7/// (kerca)piśke kuṣainmeṃ yap klāte wi ca¬
*¬(kanma)

Commentary

Remarks

*Two hands: (1) lines 1–2, (2) lines 3–7.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008C
Tamai 2011C14

References

other

Pinault 0000: 25-26; Ching 2010: 173

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.