SHT 1181

Known as:	SHT 1181
Cite this page as:	"SHT 1181". 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-sht1181 (accessed 10 Apr. 2026).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Sengim
Specific find spot:	[purchased]
Expedition code:	T II S 50
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):	3.4 × 4.7 cm
Number of lines:	3+

Images

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Transliteration

b1	– nā [ka]¯ ¯m unread knā nmā na¯ ¯s̝

Transcription

b1	– nākäm unread knānmānaṣ

Translation

b1	reproach ... wise

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*	Maue 2010: 346 reads tākam\, in which he sees a 1sg.opt. tākim 'Iwould be'. Accordingly, he reads the Skt. text as sy[ā](ṃ)[:]. Although Peyrot 2014: 151 can offer no solution for the gloss, he thinks that the reading of Sander and Waldschmidt 1985: 175 is correct (see above, phil.comm.): the p of p(a)ṇḍi[t]· is lowered and must be part of a compound akṣara; instead of syāṃ, we should have had syām\; and tākäm for tākim would be highly unusual. If nākäm is read correctly, it might be expected to have glossed a form of Skt. nind- or nindā. The following gloss is clear (cf. Maue 2010: 346): knānmānaṣ is for knānmānäṣ (nom.pl.) 'wise'.

Maue 2010: 346 reads tākam\, in which he sees a 1sg.opt. tākim 'Iwould be'. Accordingly, he reads the Skt. text as sy[ā](ṃ)[:]. Although Peyrot 2014: 151 can offer no solution for the gloss, he thinks that the reading of Sander and Waldschmidt 1985: 175 is correct (see above, phil.comm.): the p of p(a)ṇḍi[t]· is lowered and must be part of a compound akṣara; instead of syāṃ, we should have had syām\; and tākäm for tākim would be highly unusual. If nākäm is read correctly, it might be expected to have glossed a form of Skt. nind- or nindā. The following gloss is clear (cf. Maue 2010: 346): knānmānaṣ is for knānmānäṣ (nom.pl.) 'wise'.

Philological commentary

*	The first item glosses Skt. /// ·y· sy(ā)[t] - Sander and Waldschmidt 1985: 175 reads the line as /// + .. sy(ā)[t]=paṇḍi[t]. ///.
*	The second item clearly glosses Skt. p(a)ṇḍi[t]· 'wise'.

References

other

Peyrot 2014: 133, 151; Maue 2010: 346

Online access

IDP: SHT 1181

Bibliography

IDP

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

Maue 2010

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

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.