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PK NS 68

Known as:	PK NS 68
Cite this page as:	"PK NS 68". 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-pkns68 (accessed 11 Apr. 2026).
Provenience
Expedition code:	882
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	pa ñä kte śrā va – – – – – ///
a2	tu ypa r[w]e cwī ya /// – –
a3	[ṅ]w· nä mpa ri tta s̝s̝aṃ – – – – – – – – – – ///
a4	/// ṣa¯ ¯ñä ya – – – – – – ///
b1	/// ntra • pa [ñä] – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – ///
b2	[w]· pe cce sa [au] ṣa¯ ¯p /// – – –
b3	śe¯ ¯s̝ 6 || pa [ñä] – ///
b4	le nma pa ryā – ///

Transcription

a1	pañäkte śrāva(stine) (mäskīträ) ///
a2	tu yparwe cwī ya /// (klaiṃ) (e)
a3	ṅw(e)nämpa rittaṣṣäṃ (eṅweṃ) (wat) (klainämpa) (rittaṣṣäṃ) ///
a4	/// ṣañ ya(yāṣṣoṣ) (ekaññe) ///
b1	/// nträ • pañä(kte) (klyauṣa) (nāksate) (sāṅk) (kraupäṣṣä) (ce) (śikṣapāt) (śānmya) (•) (kuse) (ṣamāne) ///
b2	w(ai)peccesa auṣäp /// (saṃghāva)
b3	śeṣ 6 ॥ pañä(kte) ///
b4	lenma paryā(nma) ///

Translation

a1	Buddha (was staying) in [Śrāvastī.] ///
a2	thereupon, his /// /// (he) unites (the woman)
a3	with the man, (or unites the man with the woman) ///
a4	/// the possession begged by himself ///
b1	/// ... Buddha (heard it and blamed. He gathered the community and proclaimed this prescription. If the monk) ///
b2	with the possession, more ///
b3	SA. 6 Buddha ///
b4	(he built) the cells, ///

References

other

Ogihara 2009: 293-294

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.