SHT 5578

Known as:	SHT 5578
Cite this page as:	"SHT 5578". 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-sht5578 (accessed 12 May 2026).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Unknown
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TB
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Gloss
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	4.4 × 2.3 cm
Number of lines:	3+

Transliteration

b1x	wa nta
b2x	tā ko[¯] [¯yä]
b3x	[e] – [l](·)i

Transcription

b1x	n1 n2 wanta°
b2x	n3 n4 tākoy
b3x	n5 e(ka)l(ym)i

Translation

b1x	thing(s)
b2x	would be
b3x	in the power

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

n1	wanta° could stand either for wanta〈re〉 (sg.) 'thing' or wanta〈rwa〉 (pl.) 'things' (although the gloss is found close to he right edge of the fragment, there would still have been space for a third akṣara). In both cases we would have to assume a misspelling for wäntare, wäntarwa. Perhaps the Tocharian gloss was meant to specify which of the semantic variants of kārya was intended.
n3	Although the endings could theoretically be restored differently, the Tocharian form seems to be only disyllabic, since a trace of the y and the ä can be seen, which are a bit lower and must therefore be in virāma position. The 3sg. is by far the most frequent form to meet this requirement. Further possibilities are theoretically 1sg. bhaveyam ~ tākoym; 2sg. bhaveḥ ~ tākoyt; 1pl. bhavema ~ tākoym. Excluded are 2pl. bhaveta ~ tākoycer and 3pl. bhaveyuḥ ~ tākoyeṃ (the variant tākoṃ is also excluded).

wanta° could stand either for wanta〈re〉 (sg.) 'thing' or wanta〈rwa〉 (pl.) 'things' (although the gloss is found close to he right edge of the fragment, there would still have been space for a third akṣara). In both cases we would have to assume a misspelling for wäntare, wäntarwa. Perhaps the Tocharian gloss was meant to specify which of the semantic variants of kārya was intended.

Although the endings could theoretically be restored differently, the Tocharian form seems to be only disyllabic, since a trace of the y and the ä can be seen, which are a bit lower and must therefore be in virāma position. The 3sg. is by far the most frequent form to meet this requirement. Further possibilities are theoretically 1sg. bhaveyam ~ tākoym; 2sg. bhaveḥ ~ tākoyt; 1pl. bhavema ~ tākoym. Excluded are 2pl. bhaveta ~ tākoycer and 3pl. bhaveyuḥ ~ tākoyeṃ (the variant tākoṃ is also excluded).

Philological commentary

n2	glosses probably Skt. [k]ā(r)y(a) '[something] to be done'.
n4	glosses Skt. bhave(t) (3sg.opt.) 'would be'.
n5	glosses Skt. vaśena (instr.sg.) 'by the power'.

SHT 5578

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