PK NS 24

Known as:	PK NS 24; Pelliot Koutchéen Nouvelle Série 24; PK AS 5E
Cite this page as:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Adrian Musitz (translation). "PK NS 24". 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-pkns24 (accessed 17 Sep. 2024).
Edition
Editor:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator); Adrian Musitz (translation)
Date of online publication:	2013-08
Provenience
Expedition code:	882.2
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānastotra
Passage:	28c-31d [shorter version]
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Meter:	53436 (2x), 4545 (1x), 436 (1x)
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	7.2 × 18.3 cm
Number of lines:	4
Interline spacing:	1.6 cm

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Transliteration

a1	/// ss(·) o kta tsai klyo mñai ytā ri : rṣā keṃ¯ ¯ts lā nte pe ṣpi rttu pe lai kn(·) ṣṣ(·)
a2	/// (·)ai kā mai śpā lmeṃ klyau ssi pe lai kne o ktma nā ntseṃ : ṣe ke klyau ṣo¯ ¯r e
a3	/// e ne ṅkā meṃ i ndri nta pa rnāṃ ña na vi ṣai nta ka rso¯ ¯ymä au
a4	/// [c](·) ma¯ ¯r^• : 20 9 ā tma vā¯ ¯rgä pai kā mai ṣa ña¯ ¯ñmä cä mpi¯ ¯m yā
b1	/// [e] tswai ne ssi śco rma mñe rī ma¯ ¯r^• : pu tka lyñe ne cä ñca rñe ṣe¯ ¯k
b2	/// [t](·) kle śa ṣṣai srū ka lñe ṣṣai a ntse ṣṣai ma raṃ ṣṣai s̝pa : 30 pe
b3	/// [w](·) lñe nta : mā ā rto yma¯ ¯r mā we ñi¯ ¯m bu ddha va caṃ śa sta rma¯ ¯ś ya
b4	/// me kauṃ sū śau¯ ¯l śpā lmeṃ : mā no ka nte pi kwa la snai pe le mpa [r]i [t]to¯ ¯s̝

Transcription

28c	a1 /// (klyau)ss(i) oktatsai ; klyomñai ytāri :
28d	rṣākeṃts lānte peṣpirttu ; pelaikn(e)ṣṣ(e) a2
29a	/// (p)aikāmai ; śpālmeṃ klyaussi pelaikne ; ok tman= āntseṃ :
29b	ṣe keklyauṣor ea3 n1(ñcīmar) ///
29c	eneṅkāmeṃ indrinta ; pärnāṃñana viṣainta ; karsoym aua4(spa)
29d	/// (treñ)c(ī)mar : 20-9
30a	ātmavārg paikāmai ; ṣañ-añm cämpim yāb1 n2(tässi)
30b	/// etswai nessiśco ; rmamñ= erīmar :
30d	putkalyñene cäñcarñe ; ṣek b2 /// (we)t(a) kleśaṣṣai ; srūkalñeṣṣai antseṣṣai ; maraṃṣṣai ṣpä : 30
31a	peb3(yālavārg) /// w(e)lñenta :
31c	mā ārtoymar mā weñim ; buddhavacaṃ śastarmaś ; yab4 n3(mim) /// (ṣe)me kauṃ ; sū śaul śpālmeṃ :
31d	mā no kante pikwala ; snai pelempa rittoṣ

Translation

a1	... to hear the noble eightfold path.
a1+	The (wheel) of the law turned by the king of sages...
a2	... I wrote the law, excellent to hear, eighty thousand elements/skandhas (?)...
a2+	May I once seize the hearing (of the law).
a3+	May I truly knnow the internal senses and the external sense-objects.
a4	I wrote the ātmavarga.
a4+	May I be able to tame myself.
b1	... may I evoke the tendency to be... towards... Always sweet in division...
b2	the struggle with Kleśas, death, Skandhas, Māras...
b2+	Peyālavarga... sayings...
b3	May I not approve, may I not say,
b3+	may I strive for the word of the Buddha and the śāstras...
b4	One day, the best life. Not... a hundred years connected with lawlessness...

Commentary

Parallel texts

	PK AS 5B, PK AS 5C, PK NS 25 and 26

Remarks

	The fragment has two press marks PK AS 5E and PK NS 24, i.e. there is no joint of two different fragments. The right part of a leaf without trace of the string hole. This leaf belongs to a different manuscript than the other Udānastotra fragments of the series PK NS 23, 25-26, 27, 28.
	See the complete translation in PK AS 5B from b3 and PK AS 5C until a3.

Philological commentary

n1	eneṅkāmeṃ is an adverb based on the adverb eneṅka. In the parallel PK NS 25 and 26 we have an adjective eneṅkāññeṃ, which is actually problematic because it has a masculine instead of the expected feminine. The expected form eneṅkāññana would be parallel to the antonym pärnāṃñana. But it would entail a sandhi with indrinta in order to fit the metre. Apparently, the two copyists had alternative strategies for avoiding a problem with this passage in the archetype. The original text ought to have had eneṅkāññana= ndrinta with a sandhi form of indrinta. The text alteration then seems to have started by reintroduction of the i-vowel.
n2	The two other parallel texts PK NS 25 and 26 a 3-a4 and PK AS 5B b 6 have the wording rmamñe eru with hiatus. As a matter of fact, rmamñ= erīmar is more consistent with the repetitive use of optative forms in this text and it shows regular sandhi. Since the sequence with hiatus is odd for a metrical passage, one would assume that the present formulation is more original.
n3	The PPt rittoṣ is the grammatically expected form agreeing with the oblique śaul. However, a syllable is missing in this colon. The parallel version PK AS 5C a 3 has rittowo, which is problematic. Therefore the original version most likely had rittoṣo, and this poetic form was replaced by prosaic rittoṣ here at the expense of the metre. On the other hand, the copyist of PK AS 5C did not recognize the form rittoṣo and replaced it by the metrically similar rittowo, making the syntax more complicated.

References

other

Lévi 1933: 61-2

Bibliography

Lévi 1933

Lévi, Sylvain. 1933. Fragments de textes koutchéens. Udānavarga, Udānastotra, Udānālaṁkāra et Karmavibhaṅga, publiés et traduits avec un vocabulaire et une introduction sur le «tokharien». Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.

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