PS Bl 18.6

Known as:	PS Bl 18.6; Pelliot Sanskrit numéro bleu 18.6
Cite this page as:	Michaël Peyrot. "PS Bl 18.6". 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-psbl186 (accessed 09 Nov. 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:	3+?

Images

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Transliteration

b1x	/// – ·[o]¯ ¯u ·[k]· – ///
b2x	·ai [n]·o rmeṃ

Transcription

b1x	n1 n2 /// – (s)o_u(ś)k(e) – ///
b2x	n3 (y)ain(m)ormeṃ

Translation

b1x	dear son/little son(?)
b2x	having attained

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

n1	I tentatively assume that (s)ou(ś)k(e) is a further variant of soṃśke and sauśke (Peyrot 2008: 92).

Philological commentary

n2	Possibly glosses Skt. yaṃ kumāraṃ 'that ... youth'. This gloss is hardly readable, and the interpretation is uncertain. The corresponding Sanskrit text is unfortunately lost. On the basis of a text reconstruction of this passage of the Mahāgovindasūtra of the Dīrghāgama by Gudrun Melzer (Munich), I suggest that the text above the gloss may have been the yaṃ kumāraṃ cited above.
n3	Glosses Skt. āsādya 'near' (reading and identification by Klaus Wille with the help of a text reconstruction by Gudrun Melzer). If correctly read, the gloss does not translate āsādya in its grammaticalised sense of 'near, close by', but in a more literal sense 'having approached, obtained'. The reading of the first two akṣaras is made difficult by a piece of paper from another fragment that sticks on the surface (i.e. the text itself is probably not abraded). A large part of the second consonantal element of the second akṣara can be seen, which seems compatible with m, although this m must then have been a little different from that of the following akṣara. The akṣara rmeṃ is lowered compared to the preceding akṣaras, in order to remain under the lower part of the akṣara dya of the Skt. text.

Possibly glosses Skt. yaṃ kumāraṃ 'that ... youth'. This gloss is hardly readable, and the interpretation is uncertain. The corresponding Sanskrit text is unfortunately lost. On the basis of a text reconstruction of this passage of the Mahāgovindasūtra of the Dīrghāgama by Gudrun Melzer (Munich), I suggest that the text above the gloss may have been the yaṃ kumāraṃ cited above.

Glosses Skt. āsādya 'near' (reading and identification by Klaus Wille with the help of a text reconstruction by Gudrun Melzer). If correctly read, the gloss does not translate āsādya in its grammaticalised sense of 'near, close by', but in a more literal sense 'having approached, obtained'. The reading of the first two akṣaras is made difficult by a piece of paper from another fragment that sticks on the surface (i.e. the text itself is probably not abraded). A large part of the second consonantal element of the second akṣara can be seen, which seems compatible with m, although this m must then have been a little different from that of the following akṣara. The akṣara rmeṃ is lowered compared to the preceding akṣaras, in order to remain under the lower part of the akṣara dya of the Skt. text.