SHT 4477

Known as:	SHT 4477
Cite this page as:	"SHT 4477". 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-sht4477 (accessed 08 Dec. 2025).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Unknown
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TB
Text contents
Title of the work:	Vasubandhu, Abhidharmakośabhāṣya
Passage:	349.8-22
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Gloss
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	5.7 × 10.3 cm
Number of lines:	3+

Transliteration

b_y	kra [m]tsa sa ntā nä ntse
b_z	[k]o¯ ¯[s] [yā] [m]o [r]·· unread mo kṣa bhā gi ma skeṃ t[ra]

Transcription

b_y	n1 n2 kramtsa santānäntse
b_z	n3 kos yāmor(nta) unread mokṣabhāgi mäskeṃträ

Translation

b_y	through the krama ... of the santāna
b_z	how many deeds? ... [these] are mokṣabhāgīyas

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

n1	The TB gloss with the two calques kram* and santāṃ* is remarkable: perhaps the glossator only wanted to indicate the case of the Sanskrit words.

Philological commentary

n2	Glosses Skt. Abhidh-k-bh (Pradhan 1975: 349 l. 9 - for this section of the Abhidharmakośabhaṣya, cf. de La Vallée Poussin 1980: vol. IV, 178-9) krameṇa hi santān(a)sy(a) 'step by step ... of the series'.
n3	kos yāmor(nta) glosses Skt. Abhidh-k-bh (Pradhan 1975: 349 l. 13) kati karmaṇi (for karmāṇi) 'how many deeds?'. mokṣabhāgi mäskeṃträ glosses Skt. Abhidh-k-bh (Pradhan 1975: 349 l. 13-4) kati karmaṇi : triṇi karmā(ṇi) (for kati karmāṇi : triṇi karmā(ṇi) 'How many deeds? Three deeds.' This gloss clearly specifies which kinds of deed are discussed, namely mokṣabhāgīyas 'leading to final deliverance'.

Glosses Skt. Abhidh-k-bh (Pradhan 1975: 349 l. 9 - for this section of the Abhidharmakośabhaṣya, cf. de La Vallée Poussin 1980: vol. IV, 178-9) krameṇa hi santān(a)sy(a) 'step by step ... of the series'.

kos yāmor(nta) glosses Skt. Abhidh-k-bh (Pradhan 1975: 349 l. 13) kati karmaṇi (for karmāṇi) 'how many deeds?'. mokṣabhāgi mäskeṃträ glosses Skt. Abhidh-k-bh (Pradhan 1975: 349 l. 13-4) kati karmaṇi : triṇi karmā(ṇi) (for kati karmāṇi : triṇi karmā(ṇi) 'How many deeds? Three deeds.' This gloss clearly specifies which kinds of deed are discussed, namely mokṣabhāgīyas 'leading to final deliverance'.

References

Online access

IDP

Miscellaneous

Peyrot 2014: 165; Wille 2012: 81-2

Bibliography

de La Vallée Poussin 1980

de La Vallée Poussin, Louis. 1980. L’Abhidharmakośa de Vasubandhu. Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques 16. Bruxelles: Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises.

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.

Pradhan 1975

Pradhan, Prahlad. 1975. Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam of Vasubandhu. With introduction and indices by Aruna Haldar. 2nd ed. Vol. 8. Tibetan Sanskrit Works Series. Patna: K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute.

Wille 2012

Wille, Klaus. 2012. Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 11. Die Katalognummern 4363–5799. Vol. 11. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland 10. Stuttgart: Steiner.