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PK LC 3

Known as:	PK LC 3
Cite this page as:	Adrian Musitz. "PK LC 3". 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-pklc3 (accessed 23 Jan. 2026).
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:	4

Transliteration

a1	ṣu kta ñce śa· w· k· – k· ·k· ///
a2	[ṣu] [kt]a ñc· ·e [i] kaṃ wi ne ka me ki śkaṃ ne ya¯ ¯p te mtsa te ca k· [n]m· – –
a3	(– – – – – –) [ka] lwā¯ ¯m ca ka nma 10 8
b1	ñ· [n]· sa ma [10] [5] •

Transcription

a1	ṣuktañce śa(k) w(i) k· – k· ·k·n1 ///
a2	ṣuktañc(en)e ikäṃ wine kamekiśkaṃnen2 yap temtsate cak(a)nm(a) – –
a3	– – – – – – kälwāmn3 cakanma 10-8
b1	n4 ñ· n· sama 10-5 •

Translation

a1	(In the) seventh (month), on day twenty two, (in Kamekiśka)...
a2	In the seventh (month), on day twenty two, in Kamekiśka, barley was grown: ... piculs.
a3	... we obtained ...: 18 piculs.

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1	This may be restored as K(ame)k(iś)k(aṃne) (Ching 2010: 336.
n2	Another example of a place name with the diminutive suffix in the plural, cf. HWB 74(4) a8 olyīśkaṃtsa. Could this place name have something to do with ykāmekeś in PK DA M 507.37 and 36 a65-66?
n3	The '¯M' is so smushed that it barely looks like anything.
n4	'(Effectively a scrawl)' (Ching 2010: 336. The akṣaras here are very big and shoddily written.

References

Edition

Ching 2010: 335-336; Pinault 0000: 95-97

Bibliography

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 0000. “Textes économiques koutchéens.”