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SI Strelkov-D 84.b

Known as:SI Strelkov-D 84.b
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Provenience

Collection:Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg)

Language and Script

Language:TB

Text contents

Text genre:Non-literary
Text subgenre:Account
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Manuscript:Assemblage IX
Material: ink on wood tablet
Number of lines:1

Transliteration

a1/// m· ki ke cau śā lpta ṣeṃ cā neṃ ka mā te 1000 te tse pau ///

Transcription

a1n1 /// kike cau śāl ptaṣeṃ cāneṃ kamāte 1000 tetse pau° ///

Translation

a1/// ... took/brought the coins belonging to the Śāl stūpa: 1000. (These are) ... of/to him. ///

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1pau ///: maybe pau(śye) “tax” or pau(tke) “land rent” (Ching 2010: 318).

References

other

Ching 2010: 318

Bibliography

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.