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PK NS 130 and 192

Known as:PK NS 130 and 192
Cite this page as:"PK NS 130 and 192". 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-pkns130and192 (accessed 16 Dec. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Duldur-akur
Collection:Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)

Language and Script

Language:TB
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Udānastotra
Passage:1a-6a [shorter version]
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Transliteration

a1[k]l[au] ts[ai] [ne] /// ·ñ· ///
a2ga ṅga vā [l]u – /// ·[s]· : sa – ///
a3k· se tse u dāṃ śā – /// ○ kte ra c[ä] ñc· ///
a4– – rg· /// [nd]r· ·ts· [m]· [y]y· w·e [ś]ā saṃ pā s[s]i : [e] ///
a5/// – ca kra va rti lā nte ra ṣu – ///
b1/// ·[t]· ṣṣeṃ pre ṅke ntsa pe ñ· ///
b2– – ·ś· /// [d]āṃ śā s·· [:] ci nta mā ṇi yu kṣe ñ[c]a ///
b3·ś· ññe ṣṣai ke [kt]· /// ○ ṣṇī¯ ¯r me [n]· ///
b4kusā tre ra po [y]·e /// ·[s]ñ· sa [:] ///
b5o ko k[u]·e /// ·[e] k·e ///

Transcription

a1klautsaine /// ·ñ· ///
a2gaṅgavālu(k) (poyśintaṃts) (käryau) (śault)s(a) : sa(tyānuvarth) /// (lä)¬
a3¬k(t)setse udāṃ śā(strä) (:) (meṃ-ñä)kte ra cäñc(are) ///
a4(va)rg(anma) /// ndr· ·ts· m(ai)yy(ā)w (c)e śāsaṃ pāssi : e(mprenmaṣṣe) ///
a5/// – cakravarti lānte ra ṣu(kt) ///
b1/// (utpa)t(ti)ṣṣeṃ preṅkentsa peñ(iyacceṃ) ///
b2– – ·ś· /// (u)dāṃ śās(trä) : cintamāṇi yukṣeñca /// (po)¬
b3¬(y)ś(i)ññeṣṣai kekt(seṃne) (eśne) (u)ṣṇīr men(kātse) ///
b4kusātre ra poy(ś)e(ñcanne) (läksettse) (eñet)sñ(e)sa : ///
b5oko ku·e /// ·ek·e ///

Commentary

Parallel texts

*S1, THT 1369, PK AS 5A, SHT 190.10

References

other

Peyrot 2016a: 326, 310-312

Bibliography

Peyrot 2016a

Peyrot, Michaël. 2016a. “The Sanskrit Udānavarga and the Tocharian B Udānastotra: a window on the relationship between religious and popular language on the northern Silk Road.” Bulletin of the School of African and Oriental Studies 79: 305–27.