SHT 1157

Known as:	SHT 1157
Cite this page as:	"SHT 1157". 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-sht1157 (accessed 11 Dec. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Murtuk
Expedition code:	T III M 169
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TA
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Gloss
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	7.7 × 11.2 cm
Number of lines:	5

Images

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Transliteration

lf	100 10 9
b2	ywa wo¯ ¯n[t]^• koṃ

Transcription

100-10-9

b2	ywawont koṃ

Translation

b2	matured day

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*	Maue 2010: 345 reads ywawont\ ko and identifies the gloss as TA, remarking that -ont is found "bei Adjektiven des Typs parno und PP des Typs kälpo" ["with adjectives of the parno-type and with PPs of the kälpo-type"]. Indeed, ywawont is probably a preterite participle of the verb yäwā- 'turn towards', also used in the sense 'ripen' (Malzahn 2010: 805-7; Peyrot 2013b: 799). Apparently the present stem ywa- was reintroduced into the pt.ptc. of this verb, which regularly is ywo, obl.sg.masc. ywont. Whether vikāla° is to be taken as 'zur Unzeit' ['at an inopportune time'] (cf. Sander and Waldschmidt 1985: 155) or simply as 'in the twighlight; in the evening' remains to be seen.

Maue 2010: 345 reads ywawont\ ko and identifies the gloss as TA, remarking that -ont is found "bei Adjektiven des Typs parno und PP des Typs kälpo" ["with adjectives of the parno-type and with PPs of the kälpo-type"]. Indeed, ywawont is probably a preterite participle of the verb yäwā- 'turn towards', also used in the sense 'ripen' (Malzahn 2010: 805-7; Peyrot 2013b: 799). Apparently the present stem ywa- was reintroduced into the pt.ptc. of this verb, which regularly is ywo, obl.sg.masc. ywont. Whether vikāla° is to be taken as 'zur Unzeit' ['at an inopportune time'] (cf. Sander and Waldschmidt 1985: 155) or simply as 'in the twighlight; in the evening' remains to be seen.

Philological commentary

*	Glosses Skt. vikāla° 'twilight, evening, afternoon'.

References

Online access

IDP: SHT 1157

other

Peyrot 2014: 133, 150; Maue 2010: 345

Bibliography

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Malzahn 2010

Malzahn, Melanie. 2010. The Tocharian verbal system. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Maue 2010

Maue, Dieter. 2010. “Uigurisches in Brāhmī in nicht-uigurischen Brāhmī-Handschriften Teil II.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hung. 63: 319–61.

Peyrot 2013b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

Peyrot 2014

Peyrot, Michaël. 2014. “Notes on Tocharian glosses and colophons in Sanskrit manuscripts I.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 131–79.

Sander and Waldschmidt 1985

Sander, Lore, and Ernst Waldschmidt. 1985. Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 5. Die Katalognummern 1015–1201 und 63 vorweggenommene höhere Nummern. Vol. 10, 5. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: Steiner.