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PK NS 699
| Known as: | PK NS 699 |
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| Cite this page as: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator). "PK NS 699". 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-pkns699 (accessed 14 Jun. 2025). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator) |
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| Date of online publication: | 2012-08 |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Duldur-akur |
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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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| Script: | classical |
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Text contents |
| Title of the work: | Araṇemijātaka (?) |
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| Text genre: | Literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Jātaka/Avadāna |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Size (h × w): | 6.2 × 4 cm |
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| Number of lines: | 4 |
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| Interline spacing: | 1.4 cm |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// lr(·) mn(·) lya śa[ṃ] /// |
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| a2 | /// – śau ltsa : 1 || [tu] /// |
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| a3 | /// [sa] tke ma [n]e /// |
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| a4 | /// (·)o a ra [ñ](·) (·)a /// |
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| b1 | /// ka kl(·)(·) k(·) /// |
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| b2 | /// (·)[e] n[ai] e pre /// |
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| b3 | /// [r](·) mcu ṣke mā tri /// |
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| b4 | /// rya a mma kki /// |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1 | ... but (the life?) lies as it were ... |
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| a2 | ... (by/during) life. 1. Thereupon ... |
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| a3 | ... spreading out ... |
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| a4 | ... with the whole heart ... |
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| b1 | ... having become ... |
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| b2 | ... indeed ... sky ... |
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| b3 | ... (Uttara?) the prince to [his] mother ... |
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| b4 | ... (de)ar mother [diminutive] ... |
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Commentary
Parallel texts
Philological commentary
| * | The combination of the words mcuṣke "prince" and ammaki "dear mother" may point to the Araṇemijātaka (as proposed by Couvreur 1964), but this has, of course, to remain uncertain due the very small size of the fragment. |
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| n1 | The restoration (śau)l "life" proposed by Couvreur is possible, but uncertain. |
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Remarks
| * | Recto and verso are uncertain. |
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References
other
Couvreur 1964: 248
Bibliography
Couvreur 1964
Couvreur, Walter. 1964. “Nieuwe Koetsjische fragmenten van het Araṇemijātaka.” Orientalia Gandensia 1: 237–249 + I.
