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PK NS 64

Known as:	PK NS 64
Cite this page as:	"PK NS 64". 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-pkns64 (accessed 16 Dec. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Duldur-akur
Specific find spot:	DA Angle ouest grande cour
Expedition code:	DA Angle Ouest Grd. Cour 31.11
Collection:	Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Vinaya
Object
Manuscript:	PK NS 64 ff
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī

Transliteration

a1	/// ·[y]· [ṣa] nā ksa – ///
a2	/// – – – – – nmya • ma k[sū] ///
a3	/// – ·t· ta rka na lle ·[e] – – – – ///
a4	/// ·[n]· ṣ[e] me wa ssi pa¯ – ///
b1	/// – – [pā]¯ ¯t śā nmya ma k[s]u ///
b2	/// [s]· wa ssi pa[¯] [¯s]·ä – – – – – – – – – ///
b3	/// [wa] ssi tā kaṃ – ///
b4	/// m[a]¯ ¯s̝ – ///

Transcription

a1	/// (kl)y(au)ṣa nāksa(te) ///
a2	/// (śikṣapāt) (śā)nmya • mäksū ///
a3	/// (päs)t() tärkanalle (d)e(śit) (yamaṣle) ///
a4	/// ·n· ṣeme wassi pä(st) ///
b1	/// (śikṣa)pāt śānmya mäksu ///
b2	/// s(u) wassi päs(t) (tärkanalle) (deśit) (yamaṣle) ///
b3	/// wassi tākaṃ – ///
b4	/// maṣ – ///

Translation

a1	/// heard and blamed. ///
a2	/// (Buddha) proclaimed (the prescription.) If (a monk) ///
a3	/// should be abandoned. (The confession should be made.) ///
a4	/// a single piece of clothing ///
b1	/// (Buddha) proclaimed the prescription. If (a monk) ///
b2	/// the clothes (should be abandoned. The confession should be made.) ///
b3	/// the clothes will be ///
b4	/// ... ///

References

other

Ogihara 2009: 306-308

Bibliography

Ogihara 2009

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2009. “Researches about Vinaya-texts in Tocharian A and B [Recherches sur le Vinaya en tokharien A et B].” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.