SHT 4201

Known as:	SHT 4201
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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):	7.5 × 4.5 cm
Number of lines:	7(+?)

Images

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Transliteration

b2	/// nyā tu ne la kña¯ ¯m^•

Transcription

b2	/// nyātune läkñam

Translation

b2	I will hang up ...

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*	Schmidt (Wille 2008: 313) reads läṃkñam for expected läṅkñam, but there is no trace of an anusvāra. The velar nasal may simply have been lost in the cluster ṅkñ. As noted by Schmidt, the restoration of the preceding noun, which may also be read tyātune, is uncertain and the relation of the gloss to the Sanskrit text is unclear. Peyrot 2014: 161 identifies a further possible reading, kyātune, which would make a restoration (ā)kyātune possible. This could be an abstract derived from a borrowing from Skt. ākhyāta 'declared', etc. i.e. 'declaration'. But even if this speculative restoration is correct, the combination with the verb länk- 'hang up, let dangle' remains mysterious.

Schmidt (Wille 2008: 313) reads läṃkñam for expected läṅkñam, but there is no trace of an anusvāra. The velar nasal may simply have been lost in the cluster ṅkñ. As noted by Schmidt, the restoration of the preceding noun, which may also be read tyātune, is uncertain and the relation of the gloss to the Sanskrit text is unclear. Peyrot 2014: 161 identifies a further possible reading, kyātune, which would make a restoration (ā)kyātune possible. This could be an abstract derived from a borrowing from Skt. ākhyāta 'declared', etc. i.e. 'declaration'. But even if this speculative restoration is correct, the combination with the verb länk- 'hang up, let dangle' remains mysterious.

Philological commentary

*	Glosses Skt. s(a)ṃmod(a)y(āmi) 'I carry on a salutatory conversation' (Edgerton 1953: II, 581b).

Remarks

*	May belong to the same ms. as SHT 3286.

References

Online access

IDP

Miscellaneous

Peyrot 2014: 160-1; Wille 2008: 313

Bibliography

Edgerton 1953

Edgerton, Franklin. 1953. Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit grammar and dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press.

IDP

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

Peyrot 2014

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

Wille 2008

Wille, Klaus. 2008. Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 10. Die Katalognummern 3200–4362. Vol. 10. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland 10. Stuttgart: Steiner.