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PK NS 162
| Known as: | PK NS 162 |
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| Cite this page as: | Athanaric Huard. "PK NS 162". 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-pkns162 (accessed 04 Oct. 2024). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Athanaric Huard |
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Provenience |
| Collection: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// ṣ· – [n]· ·m· (– – –) o /// |
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| a2 | /// llā ñco pre ti re skeṃ ka ·m· kka lymi – ks· /// |
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| a3 | /// – se (–) nt· wä ścrī ram¯ ¯t• sa lpeṃ [ṣ]e m[ś]· ·e /// |
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| a4 | /// – (– –) – /// |
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| b1 | /// – (– –) [k]· /// |
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| b2 | /// [5] [y]·¯ ¯m ceṃ ri na tsi om pe¯ ¯k ysa /// |
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| b3 | /// re ki sa : se wa ne s[k]ai nau ye [sa] – l· /// |
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| b4 | /// s(·)a – ·e – (– – –) – /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | … |
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| a2 | … Miserable pretas float into every direction … any ... |
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| a3 | ... they burn at once like wäścrī(?) ... |
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| b2 | … 5. I will go to abandon them there ... |
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| b3 | … in speech … I [will] strive … you … in sewane … |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 | It is possible to restore taksenträ ‘they burn’ at the end of the line. |
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| n2 | wäścrī : interpretation and segmentation difficult. One could segment wä ścrī , and interpret ścrī as the syncopated nominative plural of ścīrye ‘star’. This would fit the context quite well. However, such a syncope is unparalleled and hard to admit. Alternatively, it could be the nominative of the adjective wästarye , which has been interpreted as an adjective related to an animal name, presumably the name of the camel (Bernard and Chen 2022: 23). Although this is formally more attractive, it is difficult to understand how this fits the context. |
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| n3 | At the end of the line, one could restore mś(am)e(ṃ) ‘from the fist’, a late form of mścameṃ . |
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| n4 | sewane is a hapax. Maybe a dual or a locative singular of a noun sewa* or sewo* , perhaps related to ṣewi ‘pretext’. |
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Bibliography
Bernard and Chen 2022
Bernard, Chams Benoît, and Ruixuan Chen. 2022. “A Fall into the Pit: Tocharian B koṣko, koṣkīye.” Indo-Iranian Journal 65 (1): 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06501001.
