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SI P 65.b.1

Known as:SI P 65.b.1; SI P/65b1; SI 2088
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Provenience

Main find spot:Kucha
Collection:Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg)

Language and Script

Language:Skt.; TB

Text contents

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

Object

Following fragment:SI P 65.b.2
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):3.4 × 11.5 cm
Number of lines:3

Images

Transliteration

a1– – : u pa sthā ya ka : spa kta nī ke : – – – ///
a2ku ttra ā si : e nte ṣai yta : ku ttra ga c·a – ///
a3s· : kuce ya ma¯ ¯st : kiṃ ka ro mi : kuce ya m[s̝a] – ///
bxto kha ri ka : kuca ññe i s̝ca ke
b3u pa [dh]ā na : [ma] lka ñña : ·iṃ pi pa si : kuce yo¯ ¯kt

(continues on SI P 65.b.2)

Transcription

a1– – :
*upasthāyaka
*: spaktanīke : – – – ///
a2
*kuttra āsi
*: ente ṣaiyt{†ä} :
*kuttra gac(ch)a(si)
*(kiṃ) (karo)¬
a3¬s(i)
*: kuce yamäst :
*kiṃ karomi
*: kuce yamṣä(m) ///
bx
*tokharika
*: kucaññe iṣcake
b3
*upadhāna
*: mälkäñña :
*(k)iṃ pipasi
*: kuce yokt

(continues on SI P 65.b.2)

Translation

a1... serviteur. ... ///
a2... où étais-tu? ... où vas-tu? ///
a3... que fais-tu? ... que fais-je? ///
b3... soubassement (?). ... que bois-tu?

(continues on SI P 65.b.2)

References

Images

Vorobyov-Desyatovsky 1958; Bailey 1970; Takata et al. 2009: 70

Discussion of forms

Schmidt 1999a; Pinault 2002

Bibliography

Bailey 1970

Bailey, Harold W. 1970. “Tokharika.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 102 (2): 121–22.

Pinault 2002

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 2002. “Tokh. B kucaññe, A kuciṃ et skr. tokharika.” Indo-Iranian Journal 45: 311–45.

Schmidt 1999a

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1999a. “Irrwege der Textinterpretation II. Zum Ansatz eines westtocharischen Verbums mutk- 1. ‘renforcer’ (‘verstärken’), 2. ‘fermer (la porte)’.” Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 59: 98–106.

Takata et al. 2009

Takata, Tokio, Kyoto National Museum, and The Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, eds. 2009. シルクロード文字を辿って : ロシア探検隊収集の文物 – On the trail of texts along the Silk Road: Russian expeditions discoveries of manuscripts in Central Asia. Kyoto: Kyōto-Kokuritsu-Hakubutsukan.

Vorobyov-Desyatovsky 1958

Vorobyov-Desyatovsky, Vladimir Svyatoslavovich. 1958. “Pamyatniki central’noaziatskoj pis’mennosti.” Uchenye zapiski instituta vostokovedeniya 16: 280–308.