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PK LC 11
| Known as: | PK LC 11 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "PK LC 11". 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-pklc11 (accessed 17 Nov. 2025). |
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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: | Letter |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose |
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Object |
| Material: |
on paper |
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| Number of lines: | 8 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | snai pe ri pau śye ka rpo /// |
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| a2 | kuśi ñño ro cce pi lā nti yai tko rsa /// |
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| a3 | kṣa lle ne ci mpa ṣe plā ce ṣe yne· – /// |
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| a4 | ra me¯ ¯r śka ka [la] si po ñe ne • e tte ·o /// |
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| b1 | /// [r]e tu ne¯ ¯k sa ṅkrā mśke meṃ kṣi wra |
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| b2 | /// ṣo lyo rye ra ssā [n]e piśā¯ ¯r |
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| b3 | /// ce yna¯ ¯s śwā si kle se ta rya tau¯ ¯m |
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| b4 | /// wā ma ka ryā mai ta rya ko rraiṃ [i] /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | Without debt, the tax... in karpoññasn4 |
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| a2 | On the order of the great Kuchean king... |
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| a3 | In the court (?)n5 /on the question, he had a conversation with you. |
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| a4 | And quickly tell himn6 to bring it! ... down... |
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| b1 | ... Therein, from the little monastery, two... |
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| b2 | ... he tore it out, for five (coins?) each... |
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| b3 | ...their food: klese, three pecks. |
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| b4 | ... I bought: three koraiñ, twenty ... |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Ching's reading saṅkrām śka mai is untenable, since there is clearly an e-diacricic above the 'mśka'. Also, the 'mai' looks more like a 'meṃ'. |
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| n2 | The second 'w' is smaller than the first, because the scribe tried to fit it in the same line even though there wasn't much space left. |
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| n3 | There is a word *ggūra- 'mule' in Khotanese (Dragoni 2022: 115, non vidi), which is probably related to this word. |
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| n4 | Tiny traces of the 'ñña' are still visible. karpoñña also occurs in PK DA M 507.37, 36 a88 and in non-secular THT 1267 (in the latter case, it seems to be used in a kind of figura etymologica with kārp-: b2 ṅke ost karpoñña ñ(äś) k(ār)päsk· . |
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| n5 | Adams has prekṣalle as 'court'. |
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| n6 | I interpret poñe as a kind of analogical singular to poñes, instead of the expected poñ. |
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References
Edition
Ching 2010: 442; Pinault 1994b: 91
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.
Dragoni 2022
Dragoni, Federico. 2022. “Watañi lāntaṃ: Khotanese and Tumshuqese loanwords in Tocharian.” Leiden: Universiteit Leiden. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A3283440/view.
Pinault 1994b
Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1994b. “Aspects du bouddhisme pratiqué au nord du désert du Taklamakan, d’après les documents tokhariens.” In Bouddhisme et cultures locales. Quelques cas de réciproques adaptations. Actes du colloque franco-japonais de septembre 1991, edited by Fumimasa Fukui and Gérard Fussman, 2:85–113. Études Thématiques. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient.
