SI B 119(1)

Known as:	SI B 119(1); U 15
Cite this page as:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator). "SI B 119(1)". 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-sib1191 (accessed 09 Nov. 2025).
Edition
Editor:	Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator)
Provenience
Main find spot:	Unknown
Collection:	Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg)
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:	archaic
Script:	archaic
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānavarga
Passage:	28.31c-36b
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	Udānavarga SI B 119
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	7.8 × 13 cm
Number of lines:	6

Transliteration

lf	100 10 9
a1	m[o] ṣne ra no s̝pa tsā rw[o] ytra • [a] st· [ta]· [y]a ///
a2	[h]i śo ca te • yo lo ne no yā mo ṣne [nai] [m]· [s̝ta] [r]a [ci] – ·[e] ///
a3	pi śo ca te • [e] ne stai s̝pa yā mo ṣne ○ – – ///
a4	pu ṇye tu kṛ te hi na nda te • ○ yä rpo ne no ///
a5	mo ṣne lau ke yā mo ṣne ra no [kā] [c]·[¯] [¯n^•] ///
a6	///
b1	///
b2	su nai meṃ ṣtra su o lyä po tse [me]· ṣta¯ ¯r ///
b3	i ha na nda ti pr(·) tya ca «na» nda te • ○ ta ne kā ccä ///
b4	yä rpo a nta pi ne kā cc[ä]¯ ¯n^• ○ • ///
b5	ma tma na • lye lyä ko rmeṃ yā mo¯ ¯r a ///
b6	ci ra k[ṛ] te dū ra kṛ te pi śo ca te • l[au] [ka] ///

Transcription

100-10-9

*	(yā)¬
a1	¬moṣnen1 rano ṣpä tsārwoyträ •

*	ast(i) ta(s)ya (vipāka)

*	hi śocate

*	• yolone no yāmoṣne nai m(eṃ)ṣtär{†ä}

*	ci(rakṛt)e

*	pi śocate

*	• enestai ṣpä yāmoṣne – – ///
a4

*	puṇye tu kṛte hi nandate

*	• yärpone no /// (yā)¬
a5	¬moṣnen4 lauke yāmoṣne rano kāc(cä)n ///
a6	n5 ///
b1	///
b2	su nai meṃṣträ su olyäpotse me(ṃ)ṣtär ///
b3	n6

*	iha nandati pr(e)tya ca nandate

*	• tane kāccä(n) ///
b4	n7 n8 yärpo antapine kāccän • ///
b5	n9 n10

*	m atmana

*	• lyelyäkormeṃ yāmor a(stareṃ) ///
b6	n11

*	cirakṛte dūrakṛte pi śocate

*	• laukä(ññe) (yāmoṣne) ///

Translation

a1	Even about (something good) done (in secret) one should feel relieved. [31c] Sanskrit
a2	Sanskrit When a bad thing has been done, however, one feels sorrowful. [32a] Sanskrit
a3	Sanskrit and when it has been done in secret (one feels sorrowful). [32c]
a4	Sanskrit But when a good deed (has been done one rejoices). [33a]
a5	Even when it has been done in the past, (even) if it has been done far away, one rejoices. [33b]
b2	This one feels sorrowful indeed, this one feels very sorrowful. [34c]
b3	Sanskrit Here one rejoices ..., [35a]
b4	having done a good deed one rejoices on both sides (= in this life and in afterlife). [35b]
b5	Sanskrit having seen the pure deed (done by himself). [35d]
b6	Sanskrit (Even when it has been done) in the past ... [36b]

Other

a1	(Wenn es [scil. das Verdienst, Skt. puṇya] lange getan und auch wenn es in der Ferne) getan worden ist, dürfte er guten Mutes sein. (Schmidt 1974: 175)

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*	Note that several forms of the text point to archaic Tocharian B: yärpone (a4), olyäpotse (b2), lyelyäkormeṃ (b5) and laukä(ññe) (b6).
n7	At the beginning of the line one reads very clearly yärpo instead of yarpo. But it is due to the fact that it belongs to a compound translating Skt. kṛtapuṇyaḥ (35b). Probably this compound can be restored as yamor-yärpo.
n9	As match of Skt. viśuddham lit. ‘clean, pure’ (35d) the obvious restoration is the TB adjective astare.
n11	Apparently, in order to translate Skt. cira- ‘lasting a long time, existing from ancient time’ Tocharian used an adjective derived from the same basis as TB lauke ‘distant, remote’, which in this text corresponds to Skt. dūra- ‘being far away’. It seems possible to restore the former adjective as an archaic form laukäññe of classical laukaññe.

Parallel texts

*	Sanskrit (Bernhard 1965: 362-364)

Philological commentary

n1	The first word ought to be restored as yāmoṣne translating Skt. kṛte (31c).
n2	Before the tear of the paper there is place for four akṣaras that are largely erased; one can nevertheless read the beginning of the Sanskrit pāda 32b.
n3	Before the tear of the paper one finds the schnurloch and maybe two erased akṣaras.
n4	The first word ought to be restored as yāmoṣne translating Skt. kṛte (33b).
n5	and b1 contain no more than unreadable remains of some akṣaras.
n6	Skt. pretya has been misspelled as pratya and the verb Skt. nandati as ndate.
n8	After the dot there is space for 3-4 akṣaras of Sanskrit text (35c).
n10	The spelling atmana is mistaken for Skt. ātmanaḥ (35d). The preceding word was viśuddham. After the initial vowel a some akṣaras are erased before the tear of the paper.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008	A2
Tamai 2011	C14

References

other

Lévi 1933: 49; Bernhard 1965: 362-364

Translations

Schmidt 1974: a1 (175)

Bibliography

Bernhard 1965

Bernhard, Franz. 1965. Udānavarga. Band I, Einleitung, Beschreibung der Handschriften, Textausgabe, Bibliographie. Sanskrittexte aus den Turfanfunden 10. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.

Lévi 1933

Lévi, Sylvain. 1933. Fragments de textes koutchéens. Udānavarga, Udānastotra, Udānālaṁkāra et Karmavibhaṅga, publiés et traduits avec un vocabulaire et une introduction sur le «tokharien». Paris: Imprimerie Nationale.

Peyrot 2008

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

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.

Tamai 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.