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SHT 519.5

Known as:SHT 519.5; SHT 519/5 Bl. (12)
Cite this page as:"SHT 519.5". 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-sht5195&outputformat=print (accessed 16 Apr. 2026).

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III So 97
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Colophon
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī

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

lf10 2
b6wä rya ca ndre da śa ba¯ ¯l ā su¯ ¯k ś[ś]ä¯ ¯k

Transcription

lf10-2
b6wäryacandre daśabal āsuk śśäk

Translation

b6Vīryacandra passed Daśabala

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*On wärya- for Skt. Vīrya-, compare the TB names wäryacaṃndre, wäryaruci* and wäryasene (Pinault 1987: 186, Peyrot 2008: 55-6).
*Even though the second ś of śśäk is slightly damaged, the reading is certain. The remarkable form śśäk appears to reflect *ścäk, a kind of blend of śtäk and kcäk, the two competing 3rd Sg.Pt. forms of kätkā- 'cross'.
*The combination āsuk kätkā- is given as 'step over' by Carling et al. 2009: 58a. As pointed out by Georges-Jean Pinault (p.c.), this seems to refer to mastering of certain knowledge, perhaps a notion in the Prasādapratibhodbhava, or a text like one of the Daśabalasūtras (see e.g. Waldschmidt 1958, Wille 2014: 196). For this expression, compare YQ I.2: b7, where precisely āsuk śtä(k) is said of the eighteen vidyāsthānas.

Philological commentary

*This line, found at the end of Mātṛceṭa's Prasādapratibhodbhava, is written in a different hand. Therefore, it may be a later addition, not a real colophon.

References

other

Peyrot 2014: 133, 135

Online access

IDP: SHT 519/5

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

IDP

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

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Peyrot 2014

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

Pinault 1987

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1987. “Épigraphie koutchéenne. I. Laissez-passer de caravanes. II. Graffites et inscriptions.” Sites divers de la région de Koutcha, Mission Paul Pelliot, Documents archéologiques, 8: 59–196 + XL.

Waldschmidt 1958

Waldschmidt, Ernst. 1958. “Ein zweites Daśabalasūtra.” Mitteilungen des Instituts für Orientforschung 6: 382–405.

Wille 2014

Wille, Klaus. 2014. “Survey of the Sanskrit manuscripts in the Turfan collection (Berlin).” In From birch bark to digital data: Recent advances in Buddhist manuscript research. Papers presented at the conference of Indic Buddhist manuscripts: The State of the Field, Stanford June 15-19 2009, edited by Paul Harrison and Jens-Uwe Hartmann, 187–211. Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse 460; Beiträge zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens 80. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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