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PK DA M 507.15
| Known as: | PK DA M 507.15; PK Cp 15 |
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| 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 20 Jan. 2026). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
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Provenience |
| Collection: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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Text contents |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Account |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose |
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Object |
| Material: |
on paper |
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| Form: | Scroll |
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| Number of lines: | 5 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// ·o¯ ¯m 9 |
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| a2 | /// l·ā rye klā te cā¯ ¯k 1 |
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| a3 | /// [l]ye kśi ma sa wi ca ka nma 2 |
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| a4 | /// pa lye kśi ye ma sa ṣu¯ ¯k ca ka nma 7 ṣu¯ ¯k to¯ ¯m 7 |
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| a5 | /// [ma] sa śa kṣe «†pi» ca ka nma to wä pi¯ ¯ś 10 1 5 |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | /// 9 pecks. |
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| a2 | /// (someone) brought ...: 1 picul. |
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| a3 | /// lyekśiye-millet was spent: two piculs 2. |
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| a4 | /// ... lyekśiye-millet was spent: seven piculs 7, seven pecks 7. |
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| a5 | /// ... was spent: eleven piculs, five peccks 11 5. |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | The last 5 akṣaras are all squeezed together into one place. |
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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.”
