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PK NS 31 and 294
| Known as: | PK NS 31 and 294; PK NS 294 |
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| Cite this page as: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Hannes A. Fellner (collaborator). "PK NS 31 and 294". 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-pkns31 (accessed 20 Apr. 2025). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Hannes A. Fellner (collaborator) |
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| Date of online publication: | 2014-08 |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Duldur-akur |
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| Expedition code: | DA fd. (NS 31) + M 881e 14, caisse 48 (NS 294) |
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| Collection: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TB |
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| Linguistic stage: | classical |
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| Add. linguistic characteristics: | late |
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| Script: | classical |
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Text contents |
| Title of the work: | Muktālatā-Avadāna |
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| Text genre: | Literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
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| Meter: | 543 (4x) |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Size (h × w): | 12 × 29 cm |
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| Number of lines: | 6 |
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| Interline spacing: | 1.8 cm |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// saṃ ma ra no ksa a [l]y·¯ ¯k śau mo nmeṃ • tu meṃ we || bha rya ci tā kne (– – – –) – – ·[nṣ]l· /// |
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| a2 | /// sa sweṃ nmeṃ tsre lñe ṣṣe ñi wa se mpe l[ye] nä kṣa¯ ¯ñä ī me sa [m]·· [te] ñ[p]o ma rma nma ne /// |
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| a3 | /// ○ ¯lk [||] [wa] lo we s̝s̝aṃ la ri ya spa ntai po¯ ¯ñä || mu kti ka we s̝s̝aṃ ta ne ksa ṣṣe /// |
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| a4 | /// ○ [wa] lo we s̝s̝aṃ snai ne rke pa l[y]a ka me • || tu meṃ yṣi ntse la lau ka rne /// |
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| a5 | /// [e] cce pkā ka lā nte re ki ta [rne] [sa] wä rpo rmeṃ la¯ ¯cä pla ktu kaṃ [ñ]a [eṃ] ṣke to¯ ¯t |
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| a6 | /// [lo] ke rcci yeṃ ne ñi· [ṣā] me || tu meṃ ka ryo rta¯ ¯ñcä [m]· /// |
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| b1 | /// ·n· – [ma] rma nma ne sa¯ ¯k (–) msā ne ta ka rṣkñe sa : pu dñä kte /// |
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| b2 | /// [s]ā¯ ¯u mu kti ka mñcu ṣka eṃ ṣke [t]o [ta] [ta] rya nau mi ye nta yne ś[r]a[¯] [¯]m[t] (–) [ś]ś[a] mu sa ra /// |
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| b3 | /// ○ ṅwa ññe ja mbu dvi pmeṃ tsrā wa w[ä] tkā wa hai kka ṣṭa mā wa ne s̝pa ta rya [nau] /// |
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| b4 | /// ○ po ke ktseṃ ne nai twe śe ma ne • pru tka ske ma ne [ra]¯ ¯mt o no lme au ntsa te la /// |
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| b5 | /// [m]· ā ksau pre kṣaṃ ne la ri ya kuse sta¯ ¯rcä • tu meṃ we s̝s̝aṃ || ka ryo rtta ññe ne [||] ·e ñi [l]a rya ntse pa lsko /// |
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| b6 | /// e[ṃ] ṣke lā ṅkri ṣṣi krā so tā ka¯ ¯ñcä klo¯ ¯s̝ to tka : ceṃ¯ ¯ts vi bhi ṣa ṇe – (– – – – – –) ·e – /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | /// ... there is not even any ... from another man. Thereupon s/he says: in [the tune] bharyacitāk: |
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| a2 | /// ... the terrible poison of the separation from the lord destroys me [and] it took away my consciousness in all veins ... |
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| a3 | /// ... the wish. The kind says: O dear lady, speak trustfully! Muktikā says: Here someone ... |
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| a4 | /// The king says: Let us see without delay! Thereupon at dawn (lit. illuminating of the night) ... |
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| a5 | /// ... summon (the merchants?) here! Having received the speech of the king in her head the female doorkeeper left. In the meantime ... |
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| a6 | /// The king wants you (pl.) in the palace. Thereupon the merchants ... |
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| b1 | /// ... in the veins happiness entirely went for her because of serenity. The Buddha-lord ... |
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| b2 | /// ... this princess Muktikā in the meantime has somehow set up the three jewels in front of the eye ... |
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| b3 | /// ... I am separated [and] excluded from the lovely Jambudvīpa. Alas indeed I have also set up the three jewels for him ... |
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| b4 | /// ... the collapse went into (his?) whole body. The living being as if filled up started (to leave?) ... |
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| b5 | /// I will announce ... He questions her: O dear lady what happens to you? Thereupon she says: in [the tune] merchant's thing. Which [is] the thinking of me the dear one ... |
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| b6 | /// ... until the people of the city Laṅkā will have brought a little anger for you. To them (the king) Vibhiṣaṇa ... |
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Commentary
Philological commentary
| * | The metrical passage is in the meter bharyacitāk which is 4x12 syllables with a rhythm of 4/4/4. There are no visible pāda boundaries. |
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| n1 | The reading 〈ma〉 is absolutely safe. This cannot be the end of a preceding word. Therefore it may be a scribal mistake for the negation mā, or it is an alternative form of this particle in weak position. In fact, the association mā + ksa is quite common. |
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| n2 | Here starts a different metrical stanza in the tune käryorttaññe which is 4x12 with a rhythm of 5/7. |
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Remarks
| * | The fragment PK NS 31 is completed to the right by the small fragment PK NS 294. The joins are located at lines a2 and a3. The whole fragment belongs to the right part of a large leaf including traces of the string hole. There are traces of ruling. |
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References
other
Pinault 1994: 107 n. 4
Translations
Peyrot 2013a: b3 (231); Peyrot 2013b: a3 (738)
Bibliography
Peyrot 2013a
Peyrot, Michaël. 2013a. “Review of: The Tocharian Verbal System.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 213–59.
Peyrot 2013b
Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Pinault 1994
Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1994. “Formes verbales nouvelles dans les manuscrits inédit du fonds Pelliot Koutchéen.” In Tocharisch. Akten der Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Berlin, September 1990, edited by Bernfried Schlerath, 4:105–205. TIES Suppl. Reykjavík: Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands.
