PK NS 56

Known as:	PK NS 56; Pelliot Koutchéen Nouvelle Série 56; 1205 (prov. num.)
Cite this page as:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator). "PK NS 56". 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-pkns56 (accessed 27 Jul. 2024).
Edition
Editor:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator)
Provenience
Main find spot:	Khitay-bazar
Expedition code:	M. 442
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Add. linguistic characteristics:	late
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	7.2 × 16.2 cm
Number of lines:	5
Interline spacing:	1.4 cm

Images

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Transliteration

a1	/// ku rsa rwa au rtse e mpa rkre o ro cceṃ tsu wai ceṃ bo dhi sa
a2	/// rñai sa tyā nu pa ri va¯ ¯rt kaṃ twa sa vi pa śyiṃ śi khiṃ vi śva
a3	/// [s]nai o lya po po yśiṃ ñe ṣṣe la ntuṃ ñe¯ ¯ś a bhi ṣe¯ ¯k yā
a4	/// [k]ā¯ ¯s̝ śpā lmeṃ pa ñä ktaṃ ñe pe rne ṣṣe vyā ka ri¯ ¯t ka lpo¯ ¯s̝
a5	/// nta ne ā klyi yā mo¯ ¯s̝ śtwā ra dhya na nma meṃ pī¯ ¯ś a bhi
b1	/// a lai ta cci kre ntau na meṃ śa¯ ¯k va śi tveṃ ññe nta sa ka
b2	/// [s]paṃ ntai tsaṃ ñe nta śa¯ ¯k mai yyaṃ se¯ ¯s̝p te meṃ ma nte śa
b3	/// [l]kā lñe sa wa rñai toṃ kre ntau na ka llā lñe ne snai sklo¯ ¯k
b4	/// s̝pa cme la ne cme lñe srū ka lñe : la ka ṣṣe ñcaṃ a pā
b5	/// [r]· pa te mpa : ta se ma ne po pī¯ ¯ś ā ntseṃ tse re kwa ka ka rso ṣcai :

Transcription

a1	n1 /// kursarwa aurtse emparkre orocceṃ tsuwaiceṃ bodhisa-
a2	-(tveṃts) /// (wa)rñai satyānuparivart kaṃtwasa vipaśyiṃ śikhiṃ viśva-
a3	-(bhūṃ) /// snai olyapo poyśiṃñeṣṣe lantuṃñeś abhiṣek yā-
a4	-(moṣ) /// (tet)kāṣ śpālmeṃ pañäktäṃñe perneṣṣe vyākarit kälpoṣ
a5	/// (ompalskoññe)ntane āklyi yāmoṣ śtwāra dhyananmameṃ pīś abhi-
b1	-(jñänta) /// alaitacci krentaunameṃ śak vaśitveṃññentasa ka
b2	/// späṃntaitsäṃñenta śak maiyyaṃ se ṣp temeṃ mante śa
b3	/// lkālñesa warñai toṃ krentauna källālñene snai sklok
b4

Xx	/// ṣpä ; cmelane cmelñe srūkalñe :
Xx	lakäṣṣeñcaṃ apāb5(kärtse)n2 ///
Xx	(e)r(e)patempa :
Xx	tasemane po pīś āntseṃ ; tserekwa ka kärsoṣ cai :

Translation

a1+	... the wide [and] long (way?) of [many] leagues ... of the great [and] progressing bodhisattvas ...
a2+	... with a tongue having truth as a consequence, starting with ..., Vipaśyin, Śikhin, Viśvabhū, ... having acc(omplished) the consecration for the kingship without superior, pertaining to omniscience ... having received immediately the excellent prophecy pertaining to the rank of Buddha... having studied in the (concentration), (having reached?) from the four visions the five supernatural know(ledges) ... not having fallen away from virtues, through the ten demonstrations of power ... (with?) marks of self confidence, and the ones who, provided with ten powers, following that ... without doubt in the obtaining of these virtues starting with seeing ...
b4	... and the rebirth [and] the death in the [five forms of] existences;
b4+	showing evidently
b5	... these ones have understood all the five skandhas comparable to the form as deception

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

	We have some late forms: two times a nominative plural in -an instead of -añ (b2, b4) and the relative pronoun se for kuse (b2). The former is in accordance with the unusual spelling of geminate -ññ- by -ṃñ- pointing to a genuine depalatalization in the TB variety of the scribe, with -ṃñ- being a somewhat artificial orthography.
n1	The adjective tsuwaits(ts)e is based on the adverb tsuwai ‘towards, up to’, so that it may refer to the progress of the bodhisattvas in their career.

Philological commentary

	In b4 a meter of 15 syllables seems to start; the text before seems to be prose.
	The use of anusvāra is remarkable; often we find redundant anusvāra and also anusvāra before palatal nasal instead of palatal geminate.
n2	It seems that tasemane has to be constructed with the preceding comitative erepatempa even though this belongs to a different pāda.

Remarks

	Might belong to the same manuscript as PK NS 112.

References

other

Couvreur 1954: 82; Couvreur 1948: 329

Photo

Van Windekens 1940

Bibliography

Couvreur 1948

Couvreur, Walter. 1948. “Het eenhoornmotief in de Tochaarse B-literatuur.” In Miscellanea J. Gessler, edited by Karel C. Peeters and Robert Roemans, 325–30. Deurne/’s-Gravenhage: Govaerts/Nĳhoff.

Couvreur 1954

Couvreur, Walter. 1954. “Review of: Westtocharische Grammatik, Band I. Das Verbum.” Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen 208: 79–92.

Van Windekens 1940

Van Windekens, Albert J. 1940. De Indo-Europeesche bestanddeelen in de Tocharische declinatie. Philologische Studiën, Teksten en Verhandelingen 21-22. Leuven: Université Catholique Louvain.

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