PS Bl 18.1
| Known as: | PS Bl 18.1; Pelliot Sanskrit numéro bleu 18.1 |
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| Cite this page as: | Michaël Peyrot. "PS Bl 18.1". 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-psbl181 (accessed 27 May 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Michaël Peyrot |
Provenience | |
| Collection: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds Pelliot Koutchéen (Paris) |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | Skt.; TB |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Gloss |
Object | |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 7 |
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Transliteration
| a2x | (–) l[l]ā lle |
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| a3x | ·ai tku |
| a4x | m[t]s· ts[e] [k]ā y[e] |
| a4y | ye [nt]· ·u kā ra /// |
| b1x | /// ·ñ· – ¯ts |
| b1y | – (–) [s]tsi¯ ¯ś |
| b3x | [p]e l[k]i[¯] [¯]ñ |
| b3y | snai [trai] [ko] [ñ]e ttse |
| b3z | [a] [yā] [t]o ññe¯ ¯ś s̝pa |
Transcription
| a2x | n1n2 (pä)llālle |
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| a3x | n3 (y)aitku |
| a4x | mts·tse kāye |
| a4y | n4 yent(e) ·ukārä /// |
| b1x | n5n6 /// ·ñ· – ts |
| b1y | n7n8 (wikä)stsiś |
| b3x | n9 pelkiñ |
| b3y | n10n11 snai tr{ai/i}ko«r»ñettse |
| b3z | n12n13 ayātoññeś ṣpä |
Translation
| a2x | to be praised |
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| a3x | ordered |
| a4x | ... |
| a4y | wind ... |
| b1x | ... |
| b1y | in order to drive off (?) |
| b3x | because of |
| b3y | without confusion (?) |
| b3z | and for the benefit |
Commentary
Linguistic commentary
| This gloss is very interesting because it contains apparently three Tocharian lexical items that were so far unknown. Ironically, however, precisely these three words can hardly be read with any certainty. Even the word division is not clear. The only clear item is yent(e) 'wind', which glosses °vāta° 'id.'. It is likely that the translation of daṃśa° 'gadfly' begins with m[t]s· ts[e]; this may even be the whole word. The reading of the lower consonantal elements is far from certain. The following akṣara [k]ā is probably the beginning of the next word, the translation of maśaka 'mosquito', because no word may end in -ā. Since the paper is abraded, it is not clear whether any akṣaras are completely lost until yent(e): there may also simply be a space between these two words. As the last word of the gloss, we expect the translation of °ā[t](a)[p](a)° 'heat', but no known lexeme can be recognized. The normal word for 'heat' is emalya or emalle (Adams 2013a: 839). | |
| n1 | The number of verbs that form a gerund in °llālle is very restricted, and this is the only verb with a suitable meaning. |
| n5 | For the first element, in view of the ·ñ· that is preserved, a restoration to an abstract in -ññe, i.e. gen.pl. (cf. the Skt. reference above) °(ñ)ñ(enta)ts, is a possibility. |
| n7 | As for the root of the second element, a trace of one akṣara can be discerned, but we would expect at any rate two akṣaras. The preserved trace may belong to the lower part of ka = kä, or of wi. However, the root may also have to be restored differently; only the reading of the causative infinitive in the allative case is assured. |
| n10 | snai-tr{i}ko(r)ñettse: The reading of the gloss is very uncertain. The beginning snai and the end ñettse can be read with relative certainty, so that it must be a negated abstract in any case. However, precisely the part where the root must be is hardly legible. The second akṣara, transliterated as [trai], seems not to have been formed correctly; therefore, a reading [tri] remains a possibility. The word trikor* is not attested so far, but would have been formed from trəyka- 'be confused' in the same way as snai-ykorñe 'diligence' from yəka- 'neglect'. |
| n12 | ayātoññeś ṣpä: The end of the gloss is clear: ṣpä 'and' renders Skt. ca; the all. -ś corresponds to the dat. °āyai; and even the suffix -ññe matches the Skt. abstr. in -tā-. The interpretation of the preceding akṣaras is more difficult. One problem is that there would seem to be an akṣara between the [a] and the [yā]. This would be illegible in any case, and I assume that there was simply a space betwen the two akṣaras because of the anusvāra of the Sanskrit line below. A possible reading then seems to be ayāto, which already means 'benefit' by itself (next to 'suitable'), but the suffix -ññe was very productive and may have been added to this word nevertheless. Although the semantic match is not perfect, this seems at least an acceptable translation of paramatā 'highest position; highest end'. For the first part of the compound, avyā[b]ādha°, see the preceding gloss. |
Philological commentary
| n2 | Glosses Skt. (a)[nu]m[o]d·[n]· –, a form of anumodana 'gratification' (Edgerton 1953: II, 32b; Hartmann 1991). The reading is relatively safe; the first akṣara is probably lost in a little hole to the left. |
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| n3 | Glosses Skt. anujñāta[ṃ] 'erlaubt, genehmigt (granted, allowed)' (Bechert and Waldschmidt 1973: I, 60a; Hartmann 1991). The problem with this gloss is that the two akṣaras are placed very far apart. One could be tempted to read the first as [ss]i for (wa)ssi 'garment' as a gloss of the preceding Skt. term cīvaram 'garment'. However, (wa)ssi would then lack its first syllable; it would be placed remarkably far to the right; and ktu would also lack any preceding syllable, in spite of the fact that in this place, the paper is not particularly abraded. The simplest seems to be, therefore, to read (y)aitku or perhaps [y]aitku, with the two akṣaras placed very far apart because of the large Skt. jñā in the middle. |
| n4 | Glosses Skt. daṃśamaśakavātā[t](a)[p](a)° 'Bremse, Mücke, Wind, Hitze (gadfly, gnat, wind, heat)' (Bechert and Waldschmidt 1973: II, 414b; Hartmann 1991); probably followed by °sarīsṛpa° 'Kriechtier (critter, creeping creature)'. The final akṣara in ukārä seems to be a little lower, so that it may be in virāma. |
| n6 | The first element glosses Skt. /// vāṇāṃ, a gen.pl. (Hartmann 1991). |
| n8 | The second element glosses Skt. pratigh(ā)t(āya) 'for warding off' (Hartmann 1991). The root is essentially illegible. |
| n9 | pelkiñ glosses Skt. /// danārtham 'because of ...' (Hartmann 1991), but obviously only the last part °artham; perhaps the preceding was originally also glossed. The k is written through the long ā vowel diacritic of the line below. The virāma cannot be seen, but the ñ is significantly lowered compared to the preceding l[k]i. The first akṣara is the most uncertain, as it seems to be closed. Nevertheless, it can hardly have to be read differently. |
| n11 | snai tr{i}ko(r)ñettse glosses Skt. avyā[b]ādha° 'frei von Beschwerden' ('without complaints', Bechert and Waldschmidt 1973: I, 178b; Hartmann 1991). |
| n13 | ayātoññeś ṣpä glosses Skt. avyā[b]ādhaparamatāyai ca 'and only for the sake of non-suffering' (Hartmann 1991; Trenckner et al. 1924: I, 485b under a-vyāpajjha-paramatā). |
References
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Peyrot 2015b: 113-116
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