CEToM | SI B 120(1)
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SI B 120(1)
| Known as: | SI B 120(1); U 23 |
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| Cite this page as: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator). "SI B 120(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-sib1201&outputformat=print (accessed 20 Sep. 2024). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Georges-Jean Pinault; Melanie Malzahn (collaborator) |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Unknown |
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| Collection: | Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | Skt.; TB |
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| Linguistic stage: | archaic |
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| Script: | classical |
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Text contents |
| Title of the work: | Udānavarga |
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| Passage: | 31.32b-39b |
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| Text genre: | Literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Doctrine |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose |
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Object |
| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Size (h × w): | 8.1 × 9.2 cm |
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| Number of lines: | 7 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// ·[y]· • sa dai va[ṃ] saṃ ka lpa /// |
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| a2 | /// 30 2 sthū lā nvi ta rkā na tha [v] /// |
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| a3 | /// vi ta rka ya nvai sa ta taṃ vi ta rkāṃ • pa lsk /// |
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| a4 | /// na so vi ta rkā¯ ¯n• • to nno ai śau mye pa /// |
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| a5 | /// r· v[ā] ya • ri nä stra snai lyi pra [mā] /// |
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| a6 | /// [mbho] pa maṃ kā ya mi maṃ vi di tvā • sa pū [le] /// |
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| a7 | /// yma raṃ pa no ai śa mñe ṣṣe ye pe sa • j· t /// |
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| b1 | /// ktā ke ktse ñka rso rmeṃ • na ga ro pa maṃ ci tta ma dhi /// |
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| b2 | /// ya mi maṃ vi di tvā • ma ntra kkā¯ ¯k ṣi¯ ¯m me nā¯ ¯[k] [ly] /// |
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| b3 | /// [c]· • rī ye me nā¯ ¯k pa lsk· e ṅku [s̝a] – • /// |
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| b4 | /// ppa ṣṣī tra snai o stā ko¯ ¯i 30 7 [k]u /// |
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| b5 | /// pa lsko e ṅku s̝a¯ ¯p • yu dhye ta mā raṃ pra [j]·ā /// |
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| b6 | /// [ka] rso rmeṃ 30 8 saṃ bo dhya ṅge [ṣu] /// |
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| b7 | /// • a nu pā dā na mā śri /// |
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Transcription
| sthūlān vitarkān atha v(āpi) |
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| vitarkayan vai satataṃ vitarkāṃ |
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| • rinästrä snai lyiprä mā /// |
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| a6 | /// |
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| (ku)mbhopamaṃ kāyam imaṃ viditvā |
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| nagaropamaṃ cittam adhi(ṣṭhitaṃ) (ca) |
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| yudhyeta māraṃ praj(ñ)ā(yudhena) |
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Translation
| a1 | Sanskrit |
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| a2 | 32 Sanskrit |
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| a3 | Sanskrit (The one) conjecturing (conjectures) ... [33c] |
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| a4 | Sanskrit But the wise one (strives to control) those conjectures of the mind, [34a] |
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| a5 | Sanskrit he abandons (them) without rest for the sake of no (future existence), [34c] |
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| a6 | Sanskrit (Having seen this body being similar to a) jar, [35a] |
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| a7 | but one should (fight) against Māra with the weapon of wisdom. [35c] Sanskrit |
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| b1 | Having recognized this body being similar (to foam), [36a] Sanskrit |
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| b2 | Sanskrit Just so (having se)en (this body) being similar to a dwelling, [36b] |
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| b3 | Sanskrit and holding the mind firm similar to a city, [37b] |
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| b4 | and one should take care that he (= Māra) shall be without home. [37d=38d] Sanskrit |
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| b5 | and holding the mind firm. [37b=38b] Sanskrit |
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| b6 | Having recognized ... [38a=38d] Sanskrit |
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| b7 | Sanskrit [39d] |
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Commentary
Linguistic commentary
| The text has archaic spellings and the archaic version of the comitative affix: rinästrä (a5), maräṃpa (a7), aiśämñeṣṣe (a7), pälsko (b3, b5), paṣṣīträ (b4). |
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| n3 | As translation of Skt. apunarbhavāya (34c) ‘in order to not being born again’ one may assume TB mā näno cmelñeścä. The phrase nano täm- ‘to be born again’ is already recorded, cf. TA mā nunak cmol. |
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| n4 | An optative of the verb wätā- ‘to fight’ seems to be the best translation of Skt. yudhyeta ‘one should fight’ (35b). This verb is here construed with comitative while the Sanskrit original has the accusative. Note that the comitative affix has here the form -pa as in other archaic texts. Before we have the oblique singular of mār corresponding to the form maraṃ met in the Uv text PK AS 1A a4. |
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Parallel texts
Philological commentary
| Instead of Skt. sthūlān in a2 the authoritative text reads sthūlāṃ (33a), while in a4 both our text and the authoritative version have vitarkān (34a) before interpunction. Note also the TB spelling with dotted virāma. |
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| n1 | The first akṣara belongs to the TB translation of Skt. nirāśaḥ ‘without (false) hope, expectation’ in the sense of ‘effortless, discouraged’ (32b). Very tentatively one may propose to restore (snai maiy)y(a) ‘without strength, energy’. |
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| n2 | As last word of the Sanskrit pāda 33c Lévi 1933 wrongly reads vitarkaṃ and thus this form was recorded by Bernhard 1965, but the manuscript has clearly vitarkāṃ vs. vitarkān in the authoritative text. |
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| n5 | The Sanskrit text is very repetitive since pādas b, c, d of each stanza from 35 to 38 are identical; furthermore, the first pāda contains only variations about the object ‘body’ (35a, 36a) or ‘world’ (37a, 38a) and the simile either ‘jar’ (35a, 37a) or ‘foam’ (36a, 38a). Apparently the translator tried to condense the content of these four stanzas, but it was not done consistently. In addition, it is near certain that the stanzas numbered 37 and 38 are permuted compared to the authoritative text. What is surprising is the last pāda of the stanza 38 in the Tocharian text which ends with kärsormeṃ that corresponds to Skt. viditvā of the respective first pāda of all these stanzas. Contrary to the assumption of Bernhard 1965: 420 n4, the Tocharian text of b2 does not presuppose a reconstruction of a different Sanskrit wording as evam āgāropamaṃ ‘just so similar to a dwelling’. That would entail to suppose that the pādas 37a-b had a totally different construction than the other stanzas. It is more likely that ṣim menāk lyelyäkormeṃ is an alternative translation or interpretation that constructed nagaropamaṃ as the supplementary simile after kumbhopamaṃ. Skt. nagara- ‘city’ was understood as ‘dwelling’ and the metaphor of the body as a dwelling or house is quite trivial. |
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Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
References
other
Lévi 1933: 54; Bernhard 1965: 418-421
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.
Tamai 2011
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.
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