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PK LC 25
| Known as: | PK LC 25 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "PK LC 25". 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-pklc25 (accessed 15 Jan. 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: | 3 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// – ś· lā wa ne s̝a ryo¯ ¯y pa rso |
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| a2 | /// kse plā wa ta tte su kli ki ka me we |
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| a3 | /// ṅka ka kā re pi kcye pi śme ññaṃ tse |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | /// I brought... to him. The letter of/to the dear one. |
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| a2 | /// Send...! Tatte, the Sukliki, Kamewe... |
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| a3 | /// They invited... (In the) fifth (month) on day of the month five... |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | Or ś(ä)lāwane |
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| n2 | This seems to be the only attestation of the genitive of ṣarya 'dear'. It's inflection is like that of śana 'wife'. |
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| n3 | We shouldn't restore (sa)ṅka like Ching, because the expected form would be sāṅk. |
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References
Edition
Ching 2010: 149
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.
