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PK LC 25

Known as:PK LC 25
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 27 Jul. 2024).

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:Letter
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: on paper
Number of lines:3

Transliteration

a1/// – ś· lā wa ne s̝a ryo¯ ¯y pa rso
a2/// kse plā wa ta tte su kli ki ka me we
a3/// ṅka ka kā re pi kcye pi śme ññaṃ tse

Transcription

a1/// – ś(i)lāwane n1 ṣäryoy n2 parso
a2/// …kse plāwa tatte sukliki kamewe…
a3/// ṅka n3 kakāre pikcye piś meññaṃtse

Translation

a1/// I brought... to him. The letter of/to the dear one.
a2/// Send...! Tatte, the Sukliki, Kamewe...
a3/// They invited... (In the) fifth (month) on day of the month five...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1Or ś(ä)lāwane
n2This seems to be the only attestation of the genitive of ṣarya 'dear'. It's inflection is like that of śana 'wife'.
n3We shouldn't restore (sa)ṅka like Ching, because the expected form would be sāṅk.

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.