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PK NS 167
| Known as: | PK NS 167 |
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| Cite this page as: | Athanaric Huard. "PK NS 167". 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-pkns167 (accessed 05 May 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 | mn[o] sa lpa mñai pa tka ·e /// |
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| a2 | se nme : eṃ [t]we [p]wā ra /// |
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| a3 | pwā ra – rka na ma ne /// |
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| a4 | la kle ss[o] [n]· we śe ñña ntsa y· /// |
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| a5 | śc[i] ye a kr[ū] na s[w]ā sa [ṣy]eṃ || [tu] /// |
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| a6 | p·a [d](·)a t(·)e [y]· [t*e] sā – – /// |
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| b1 | lts· – [c]o nta¯ ¯m śu – – /// |
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| b2 | skai nā¯ ¯t ka ·e pyām [ts]i pañ· – /// |
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| b3 | la [n]· ññe – m· yai [t]ko¯ ¯r ste /// |
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| b4 | [ña] ce [t]· k· li haṃ sa – /// |
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| b5 | s̝a a ra¯ ¯ñcä lkās·e – /// |
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| b6 | – ka·[ṅ]ke la kle ss· /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 |
… At this time, s/he put down (?) the blazing … |
| a2 |
… they tear up the … Then fire … |
| a3 |
… fire burning… |
| a4 |
… with sorrowful voices … |
| a5 |
… they let rain tears [as] rain. Then … |
| a6 |
… … |
| b1 |
… |
| b2 |
… you attempt to harm the Buddha … |
| b3 |
… royal … commandment … |
| b4 |
… |
| b5 |
… seeing the heart … |
| b6 |
… then … unhappy … |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| n1 |
patka ⋅e: difficult sequence. patka should be a form of the root pätkā- ‘put down, throw down’ (for this meaning, see Huard 2022: 508). At face value, it could the 3rd singular of the preterit of this root. Accordingly, sälpamñai should agree with a noun lost in the lacuna. A reading [sk]e for the last akṣara of the line is quite unlikely. It might be read ttse instead. |
| n2 |
(tsa)rkanamane: an alternative restoration tärkanamane ‘emitting’ is unlikely, because the erased akṣara was quite large in size. |
| n3 |
akrūna: krū looks like it is a kru with a virāma stroke. However, since a virāma stroke is not needed in this context, it seems that the “virāma”-stroke is actually a sign for long ū—maybe wrongly read on a previous manuscript. krū is never attested, but there is a trū in THT 182 b4, which has a stroke to the right of the >ta<, similar to the shape of the present “virāma”-stroke. |
| n4 |
The line is much erased and difficult to interpret. One might read pradat(t)e, which would be a Sanskrit name or the part of a Sanskrit name. |
| n5 |
haṃsa: this might be the beginning of a Sanskrit proper name, such as Haṃsakuśa (Edgerton 1953: 617a). |
Bibliography
Edgerton 1953
Edgerton, Franklin. 1953. Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit grammar and dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Huard 2022
Huard, Athanaric. 2022. “Recherches sur les textes de méditation en tokharien.” PhD thesis, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
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