SHT 395
| Known as: | SHT 395; SHT 395/1; SHT 395/2; Lüders no. S 253; Gö 79 |
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| Cite this page as: | "SHT 395". 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-sht3951 (accessed 11 Feb. 2026). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadt-Höhle or Nāgarāja-Höhle or Handschriften-Höhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 64 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | Skt.; TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Writing exercise |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
| Text subgenre: | Gloss |
| Verse/Prose: | prose |
Object | |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Size (h × w): | 6.2 × 8.3+18.2 cm |
| Number of lines: | 5, 2 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | yū tta¯ ¯k ka pyā – ○ ¤ mo kṣa gu pte ṣā mne¯ ¯r ca¯ ¯s̝ po stāṃ dvi po[¯] [¯ñ] ā [jñi] |
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| a2 | |
| a3 | ¯p kṣāṃ ha rki ka pyā[¯] [¯]r[r] |
Transcription
| a1 | n1n2 yūttak kapyā(r) ¤mokṣagupte ṣāmner caṣ postāṃ dvi poñ ājñi |
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| a2 | n2 śark ca re seṃ |
| a3 | °p kṣāṃ harki kapyārr a mokṣagupte āśri |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| The transliteration is based on Ogihara 2014: 115-116. | |
| n1 | According to Ogihara 2014: 115, note 1, a reading yūntak\ is also possible. |
| n2 | ā[jñi] and āśr[i] are written upside down. |
Remarks
| Two fragments belonging to the same leaf. The verso side contains Karmavācanā in Sanskrit (ed. Härtel 1956: 35 (no. 47), 75, 110f.); apart from the text edited here, there are three other lines with random akṣaras by a different hand. |
References
Online access
Edition
Waldschmidt and et al. 1965: 175; Ogihara 2014: 115-116
Bibliography
Härtel, Herbert. 1956. Karmavācanā. Formulare für den Gebrauch im buddhistischen Gemeindeleben aus ostturkestanischen Sanskrit-Handschriften. Sanskrittexte aus den Turfanfunden, III. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2014. “Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 103–29.
Waldschmidt, Ernst, and et al. 1965. Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 1. Die Katalognummern 1–801. Unter Mitarbeit von Walter Clawiter und Lore Holzmann. Vol. 1. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland 10. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag.
