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PK DA M 507.15

Known as:PK DA M 507.15; PK Cp 15
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "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-pkdam507_15 (accessed 18 Feb. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz

Provenience

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: on paper
Form:Scroll
Number of lines:5

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/// ārye klāte cāk 1
a3/// lyekśi{ye} masä wi cakanma 2
a4/// °pä lyekśiye masa ṣuk cakanma 7 ṣuk tom 7n1
a5/// masa śak ṣe cakanma towä piś 10-1 5

Translation

a1/// 9 pecks.
a2/// (someone) brought ...: 1 picul.
a3/// lyekśiye-millet was spent: two piculs 2.
a4/// ... lyekśiye-millet was spent: seven piculs 7, seven pecks 7.
a5/// ... was spent: eleven piculs, five peccks 11 5.

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1The last 5 akṣaras are all squeezed together into one place.

References

Edition

Ching 2010: 200; Pinault 0000: 20-21

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.

Pinault 0000

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