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PK LC 37

Known as:	PK LC 37
Cite this page as:	Adrian Musitz. "PK LC 37". 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-pklc37 (accessed 15 Mar. 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:	7

Transliteration

a1	///
a2	/// ·s· św[ā] ra ca kaṃ nma : t«†ñ»«n»eṃ ññai sa
a3	/// [m]· 2 wa ce ñweṃ ne ko ro¯ ¯yä lye
a4	/// w· ṣe¯ ¯yä ca ka nma ṣka¯ ¯s tne ññai tau
a5	/// ¯ś to wäṃ ṣka¯ ¯s ci tra śka ya rpsa
a6	/// wa śwe rne ñwe na kke ka ryau sai lye
a7	/// ·e ·i [t]· [ś]·a [y]a rp·a [s]e śi la mi t[r]e

Transcription

a1	///
a2	/// ·s· śwāra cakaṃnma : tneṃññai sa
a3	/// m· 2 wace ñweṃne koroy lye-
a4	/// w· ṣey cakanma ṣkas tneññai tau
a5	/// °ś towäṃ ṣkas citräśka yarpsa
a6	/// °wa śwerne ñwenakke käryausai lye¬
a7	¬(kśai) /// ·e (c)it(rä)ś(k)a yarp(s)a se śilamitre

Translation

a2	/// ... four piculs. tneññai...
a3	/// ... 2. (In the) second (month), Koroy... lyekśiye-millet...
a4	/// ... was ....: six piculs. tneññai: a peck.
a5	/// ... six pecks. Citräśka oversaw it.
a6	/// ... on day four, Ñwenakke... the bought lyekśiye-millet.
a7	/// ... Citräśka oversaw it. This... Śilamitre...

References

Edition

Ching 2010: 337-338; Pinault 0000: 102

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.”