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PK NS 154

Known as:	PK NS 154
Cite this page as:	Timothée Chamot-Rooke; Athanaric Huard. "PK NS 154". 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-pkns154 (accessed 04 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Timothée Chamot-Rooke; Athanaric Huard
Provenience
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)

Transliteration

a1	/// ṣai [o] ///
a2	/// ○ ktaṃ ñe ·r[e] ·t· a ///
a3	/// ○ yo rnta ai ske – ///
a5	/// ○ po¯ ¯ntaṃts ai [ṣ·i] ///
a6	/// nt· wai ptā¯ ¯[r] [t]e ///
b1	/// lkā ske ma n· ///
b2	/// ○ ka klā yau s[t]e ///
b3	/// ○ mi lkā nta rc(·)ai ///
b4	/// ○ rke¯ ¯[ñcä] w(·)au [ñ]· ///
b5	/// [ś]· w(·)o [n]· ///

Transcription

a1	/// ṣai o ///
a2	/// (pañä)ktäṃñe (k)re(n)t(ä) a(kālkne) ///
a3	/// (ā)yornta aiske(mane) ///
a5	/// pontaṃts aiṣ(ṣ)i ///
a6	/// nt· waiptār te ///
b1	/// lkāskeman(e) ///
b2	/// kaklāyau ste ///
b3	/// (ṣe)mi lkāntarn1 cai ///
b4	/// (e)rkeñc w(l)au(wa) ///
b5	/// ś(a)won(a) ///

Translation

a1	…
a2	… (in) the good (wish) towards Buddhahood …
a3	… giving gifts …
a4	… gave to all [beings] …
a5	… separately …
b1	… seeing…
b2	… is fallen …
b3	… some are seen …
b4	… black [and] downcast…
b5	… great …

Commentary

Philological commentary

	According to Timothée Chamot-Rooke (p.c.), this fragment can be completed on the left side by m-pkns407 and is parallel to m-ioltoch1, for which see Wilkens and Peyrot 2017 An edition of this joint is in preparation.
n1	lkāntar: scribal mistake for lkāntär.

Bibliography

Wilkens and Peyrot 2017

Wilkens, Jens, and Michaël Peyrot. 2017. “Weitere Parallelen in Tocharisch B zur altuigurischen Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā: Mahendrasena-und Ṣaḍdanta-Avadāna.” In Zur lichten Heimat: Studien zu Manichäismus, Iranistik und Zentralasienkunde im Gedenken an Werner Sundermann, edited by Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Akademienvorhaben Turfanforschung, 683–710. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.