SHT 1821

Known as:	SHT 1821
Cite this page as:	"SHT 1821". 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-sht1821 (accessed 08 Dec. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Unknown
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):	9.5 × 9.5 cm
Number of lines:	6+

Images

Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

b5	wä śśi tsu ne yā

Transcription

b5	wäśśitsuneyā

Translation

b5	with ease

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*	The form is a perlative singular. Schmidt (Wille 2000: 18) rather reads wäśśitsune[y]ā(ṣ\), apparently confusing the perlative in -a with the ablative in -ṣ. As pointed out by Schmidt in a later publication (Schmidt 1999b: 284), wäśśitsune is an abstract derived from an adjective wäśśi that is actually attested in YQ III.8: a7 mā täm wäśśi ānant märkampalṣināp prucca(mñe) 'It is not easy, Ānanda, (to describe?) the advantage of the law'. A connection with TA wäṣt 'double' as suggested by Ji et al. 1998: 180 is formally attractive, but semantically far from obvious.

The form is a perlative singular. Schmidt (Wille 2000: 18) rather reads wäśśitsune[y]ā(ṣ\), apparently confusing the perlative in -a with the ablative in -ṣ. As pointed out by Schmidt in a later publication (Schmidt 1999b: 284), wäśśitsune is an abstract derived from an adjective wäśśi that is actually attested in YQ III.8: a7 mā täm wäśśi ānant märkampalṣināp prucca(mñe) 'It is not easy, Ānanda, (to describe?) the advantage of the law'. A connection with TA wäṣt 'double' as suggested by Ji et al. 1998: 180 is formally attractive, but semantically far from obvious.

Philological commentary

*	Glosses Skt. sugamatvān (abl.sg.; for sugamatvāt in sandhi before n) 'with easiness'.

References

other

Peyrot 2014: 153; Wille 2000: 18; Malzahn 2007b: 311

Online access

IDP: SHT 1821

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ji et al. 1998

Ji, Xianlin, Werner Winter, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 1998. Fragments of the Tocharian A Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka of the Xinjiang Museum, China. Transliterated, translated and annotated by Ji Xianlin in collaboration with Werner Winter, Georges-Jean Pinault. TLSM 113. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Malzahn 2007b

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007b. “A preliminary survey of the Tocharian glosses in the Berlin Turfan Collection.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 301–19. Heidelberg: Winter.

Peyrot 2014

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

Schmidt 1999b

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1999b. “Review of: Fragments of the Tocharian A Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka of the Xinjiang Museum, China.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 8: 277–85.

Wille 2000

Wille, Klaus. 2000. Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 8. Die Katalognummern 1800–1999. Vol. 8. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland 10. Stuttgart: Steiner.