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PK LC 19
| Known as: | PK LC 19 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "PK LC 19". 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-pklc19 (accessed 25 Mar. 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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Transliteration
| a1 | /// kṣe ne to tto¯ ¯k wū ·i – /// |
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| a2 | /// [ś]·¯ ¯ś e rka ñci ś·eṃ /// |
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| a3 | c«†e»«o» cce – – mpa leṃ¯ ¯ś pa /// |
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| a4 | pyā mtso • ye¯ ¯s ṣa /// |
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| a5 | pe ri ne śwe¯ ¯r pe ri mi /// |
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| a6 | se ra pe ri [ra] ·e /// |
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| a7 | lle kne sa mā /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | /// On day twenty one, the Tottokn4 Wū... /// |
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| a2 | /// ... Erkañciśke... /// |
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| a3 | ... of the Zhou-Dynasty... to the monastic cell with ... /// |
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| a4 | Do ... ! You... /// |
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| a5 | As debt: four (coins). Debt... /// |
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| a6 | ... the debt... quickly... /// |
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| a7 | On the day of the full moon ... /// |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | The scribe originally wrote 'ce', but corrected it by writing over the 'e' with 'o'. Thus, the diacritic looks a lot like 'au'. The left stroke of the 'o' is much thicker than on the other 'o's. |
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| n2 | This adjective also occurs in Kz-222-ZS-R-02. The editors of that inscription explain it as a -tstse adjective of co, a loan word from chinese 周 (zhōu), denoting the interregnum of Wu Zetian. If this interpretation is correct, this document may be dated to 690–705. |
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| n3 | This is an interesting fragment of a word. Maybe this is *samātstse, the Tocharian equivalent of Chinese 苏幕遮 (cf. PK LC 10 parāce)? |
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| n4 | Ching 2010: 438 explains this word as Chinese 都督 'governer', Old Turkic tutuq. |
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References
Edition
Ching 2010: 438; Zhao and Rong 2020:
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.
Zhao and Rong 2020
Zhao, Li, and Xinjiang Rong, eds. 2020. Cave inscriptions in Ancient Kucha. Shanghai: Zhongxi Book Company.
