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PK LC 36

Known as:	PK LC 36
Cite this page as:	Adrian Musitz. "PK LC 36". 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-pklc36 (accessed 08 Feb. 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:	6

Transliteration

a1	/// ·ñ· [p]tā s· sp· w·
a2	/// [w]s· wa śwā ra kaṃ nte piśā ka
a3	/// ·ū ta te we ca rkwa ri ka mā te
a4	/// [w]· ka[ṃ] nte śwā rka ñi¯ ¯ś lyi pā re o mo rki ñye sa ka ṅkā laṃ
a5	/// ·[e] – l·ā wa ya l[t]·e ysā re pe plya ṅko rṣṣeṃ wi ca kaṃ nma
a6	/// ·e /// /// ·e ///

Transcription

a1	/// ·ñ(a)ptās(e) sp· w·
a2	/// ws(ā)wa śwāra käṃnte piśāka
a3	/// (p)ūtatewe carkwari kamāte
a4	/// w(i) käṃnte śwārka ñiś lyipāre omorkiñyesa kaṅkālaṃ
a5	/// ·e (kä)l(w)āwa yalt(s)e ysāre peplyaṅkorṣṣeṃ wi cakaṃnma
a6	/// ·e /// /// ·e ///

Translation

a2	/// I gave... : four hundred and fifty...
a3	/// Pūtatewe brought carkwari.
a4	/// ... two hundred and fourty were left to me. The animal skeletons as omorkiñe ///n1
a5	/// I received... : one hundred, for the selling of wheatn2 : two piculs.

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1	For a discussion of kaṅkālaṃ, cf. Ching 2011: 182 and Ching 2017: 174.
n2	I interpret ysāre as the direct object of peplyaṅkorṣṣeṃ (for a similar construction, cf. PK DA M 507.19 a12.

References

Edition

Ching 2010: 398; Ching 2011: 182

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.

Ching 2011

Ching, Chao-jung. 2011. “重议柘厥望议 – 以早期探险队记录与 库车出土文书为 中心.” Xīyù Wénshǐ – Literature & History of the Western Regions 6: 167–89.

Ching 2017

Ching, Chao-jung. 2017. 吐火罗语世俗文献与古代龟兹历史 – Tocharian secular texts and the history of Ancient Kucha. Beijing: Peking University Press.