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THT 1107

Known as:THT 1107; KVāc 15
Cite this page as:Hannes A. Fellner; Theresa Illés (collaborator). "THT 1107". 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-tht1107 (accessed 02 Nov. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Hannes A. Fellner; Theresa Illés (collaborator)

Provenience

Main find spot:Unknown
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Karmavācanā
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Vinaya
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Manuscript:THT 1102-1125
Preceding fragment:THT 1106
Following fragment:THT 1108
Material: ink on wood tablet
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):5.6 × 29 cm
Number of lines:5

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Transliteration

(continues from THT 1106)

a1/// sa – – – – ṣ· le – – – daṃ ci va raṃ [p]·¯ ¯ñ ma ma sa ma nva ha rā yu ṣmāṃ a ha
a2/// m· nt· rv· sa ma dhi t[i] – mi śla· ·[ṇ]· ·nta rvā so vā e vaṃ dvi ra – tṛ ra pi || te ra no pā tro e ṅka
a3/// tya ma ṣä lye pi [o] – lme tse po yśi pa ñi kte yā tka pā trai e ṅtsi ce snai ya rmä pa pā
a4/// pa pā ṣo rñe tse a yā to śc· (·)[au]¯ ¯[l] śai lyñe – ·sta rñe¯ ¯ś pā tro e ṅka ṣa lya sta rca ma kte ña ke ka
a5/// [kte] śau¯ ¯l śai lyñe [n]·[a] [s]·e [n]·e [w]e [ta] wa [t]a [l](·)· [p]· to ya – lyñe ka ryo rpi to ya ma lyñe a mo [ka] –
b1/// lyñe sa wa rñai kuse [ś]·¯ ¯l ś· ly[ñ]·· – ske nte tai [s]· – no snai y[p]a rwe saṃ sā rne spo rto ma ne su ksa bhā jaṃ
b2/// [ś]· wā sta e nte yña kteṃ te te mu – – ñi kci ya [n]· ·s· [ṣ]· na vai ru ḍi ṣa na ñka ñca na ma sta rka la ṣa na bha
b3/// śpā lmeṃ śwa tsa nma śa – sta na no nrai yn· e ñcu wa ñeṃ pa lko ṣä· kre pa staṃ śa wā sta mlo ṣä pi lke
b4/// – k·e sa pa rna ñe¯ ¯ts o sta me· [l]· lyñ[e] – ·e ·[e] ne saṃ ṣe mi ā lī ne pi ntwā twa rpa na ntra a lye¯ ¯k śā mñai
b5/// ·o ·o ·e [y]ä· – ·sa na ·[au]· – [l]yñ[e] nta po tsa· – [ṃ] a ṅ[k]ai· ske nte cme la e ṅka ṣe ñca na saṃ

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Transcription

(continues from THT 1106)

a1n1n2n3n4 /// (antarvā)s{†ä} – – – (we)ṣ(ä)le (॥)
*(tave)daṃ civaraṃ
*p(o)ñ
*mama samanvaharāyuṣmāṃ aha¬
a2(m)n5n6n7
*(cīvara)m (a)nt(a)rv(ā)sam adhiti(ṣṭhā)mi śla(kṣ)ṇ(o) (a)ntarvāso evaṃ dvir a(pi) tṛr api
*te rano pātro eṅka¬
a3(ṣalya)n8n9 /// (wasatpā)t yamaṣälyepi o(no)lmetse poyśi pañikte yātka pātrai eṅtsi ce snai yarmä papā¬
a4(ṣorñe)n10n11n12n13 /// papāṣorñetse ayātośc(a) (ś)aul śailyñe(tse) (a)starñeś pātro eṅkaṣalya star-ca mäkte ñake ka
a5n14n15n16n17n18 /// (ya)kte śaul śailyñen(t)a s(k)en(t)e weta watal(yñe) p·to ya(ma)lyñe karyor pito yamalyñe amokä(nta)
b1n19n20 /// °lyñesa warñai kuse ś(au)l ś(ai)lyñ(enta) skente tais(a) (ra)no snai yparwe saṃsārne sportomane su ksa bhājaṃ
b2n21n22n23n24 /// ś(a)wāsta ente yñakteṃ tetemu (ṣaiyt) ñikciyan(a) (y)s(ā)ṣ(a)na vairuḍiṣana ñkäñcana mastarkaläṣana bha¬
b3(janta)n25n26n27n28n29n30 /// śpālmeṃ śwatsanma śa(wā)sta nano nraiyn(e) eñcuwañeṃ palkoṣä(ṃ) krepastaṃ śawāsta mloṣä pilke
b4n31n32n33 /// (yä)k(n)esa pärnañets ostame(ṃ) l(a)lyñe·e ·e nesäṃ ṣemi ālīne pintwāt warpananträ alyek śāmñai
b5n34n35 /// (p)o (t)o(ṃ) (t)e yä(knet)sana (ś)au(l) (śai)lyñenta po tsa(tku)ṃ aṅkai(ṃ) skente cmela eṅkaṣeñcana saṃ¬
*(sār)

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Translation

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a1(seize this antarvāsa garb, a soft antarvā)sa. (This [must be] spoken) three (times). [These words must be repeated in Skt.]: [Is] this (your) garb? Say: [Yes, it is] mine. Pay heed to this, venerable one! I,
a2(N.N.), seize (this) antarvāsa (garb), (a) so(ft) antarvāsa. Thus a second [and] a third time. Thus, too, (you shall) seize the eating bowl.
a3The Omniscient, the Buddha, has commanded the being to be ordained to seize the eating bowl since (it(?) leads (?) to(?)) immeasurably moral conduct [śīla].
a4(Because(?),) for the purity of living [your] life [ājīvapāriśuddhu], [which is] conductive to moral conduct, you shall seize the eating bowl. Just as now [for you]
a5([there is] no way of living [your] life [ājīva] [left] among the householders(?)) – ignoble(?) ways of living life are fighting wars(?), ploughing(?), trade [krayavikraya], the crafts,
b1for/with/to x-ing [and] so on, whatever [other] ways of living life [there are] – just so [there is] (n)o [eating bowl] existing in the beginning-less saṃsāra
b2(left), from which you have (not) eaten. When you (were) born among the gods, (from) divine golden, beryl, silver [and] crystal vessels
b3(heavenly(?)) food you were eating. In hell, then, you were eating red-hot iron balls, [and] molten copper
b4(you were drinking). Of the heretics, (of which) there are ... (96) [different] ways of going from the house, some consume the alms food from the palm[s] of their hand[s], others (from) human
b5(brainpan[s]) .... (All these) suchlike ways of living life are completely wrong [and] erroneous, since they lead to [new re]births [and]

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Commentary

Philological commentary

*The supplementation and commentaries follow Schmidt 1986: 13-16, 77-78, 132-133.
n3About 14 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n4The beginning of the line can probably be supplemented with (wlaṃśkeṃ antarvā)s; cf. Schmidt 1986: 132, and commentary to THT 1106: a1.
n7About 9 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n9About 7 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n13About 8 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n17About 8 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n18The first word in this line may perhaps be read as and supplemented to [y](a)kte - hardly [s·]kte and certainly not (mä)kte! The ending of the last word in this line is uncertain.
n20About 9 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n23About 9 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n24The last word in this line should probably be supplemented to bha(jānäntane) or bha(jāntane) - or perhaps even be corrected to bhā(jantane)?
n30About 9 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n33About 8 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.
n35About 12 akṣaras are missing at the beginning of this line.

Remarks

*According to Schmidt 1986: iv-v the ms. comes either from Qizil or from Tumšuq.
*From this leaf 2 large fragments are preserved: one to the right of the string hole, about 6 cm wide; and another fragment from the right side at a distance of about 1 cm from the other, consisting of 5 pieces and about 16 cm wide. The recto is discoloured to a blackish hue rendering the script almost illegible. The leaf number is not preserved.
*The original ms. was 29 cm wide and 5.6 cm high, with the string hole 6.5 cm from the left margin. It was written by at least three hands: scribe 1, a beautiful, delicate script, from leaf 1 to 11 a1; scribe 2, distinguished by a number of orthographical idiosyncrasies/errors, from leaf 11 a1 to and including 19; scribe 3 from leaf 20 to end. The final leaves A and B THT 1123 and THT 1124 may have been written either by scribe 2 or a fourth hand. Cf. Schmidt 1986: v, 2-3.
*This leaf is in hand 2.

Linguistic commentary

n1weṣäle for weṣṣälle.
n2samanvaharāyuṣmāṃ: sic! and should be corrected to samanvāharāyuṣmāṃ.
n5eṅkaṣalya for eṅkaṣälya.
n6ślakṣṇa: it is unclear what is meant by this - perhaps a piece of clothing not made from smaller pieces, but cut from a single cloth? ślakṣṇam antarvāsaṃ is also to be found in Mainz 629, a Skt.-Uy. Karmavācanā text (cf. Maue and Röhrborn 1976: 208ff.), which, however, does not contribute to an explanation of ślakṣṇa.
n8wasatpāt for wasaṃtpāt; yamaṣälyepi for yamaṣṣälyepi; onolmetse for onolmentse; pañikte for pañäkte; eṅtsi for eṅktsi; yarmä for yarm; papāṣorñe for papāṣṣorñe.
n10papāṣorñetse for papāṣṣorñentse; ayātośca for ayātośco for ayātośc; śailñentse for śailyñentse; astarñeśc for astaräññeś; eṅkaṣalya for eṅkaṣälya; star-ca for star-c.
n11ayātośc(a) (for ayātośc(ä)) is a postposition taking the genitive and meaning 'for (the benefit of)' (cf. THT 31 a4).
n12starca sic! for starcä (= starc).
n14śailyñenta for śailñenta; yamalyñe for yamalñe.
n15weta watal(yñe) is a figura etymologica; watal(yñe) is an Abstr. II of wät- ‘fight’. Cf. THT 1105 a5 wata /// and commentary.
n16The form p·to cannot be supplemented with any certainty. The word would appear to be the TB equivalent of TA pate 'agriculture, ploughing'.
n19śailyñenta for śailñenta; sportomane for sporttomane.
n21ñikciyana for ñäkciyana; ysāṣana for ysāṣṣana; ñkäñcana for ñkañcana; mastarkaläṣana for mastarkaläṣṣana; bhajanta for bhājanta.
n22mastarkaläṣe is an adjectival derivation of so far unattested *mastarkal ‘rock crystal’.
n25nraiyne for nraine; krepastaṃ for krepasteṃ; mloṣä for mloṣ.
n26krepastaṃ sic! To be corrected to krepasteṃ, cf. THT 529 b 5 iñcuwaññeṃ krepaste(ntsa). krepaste = ‘ball, globe, Skt. guḍā’. Further attestations: krepaste /// in THT 529 b5 (= Skt. guḍābhiḥ) and krepäste /// in THT 3598 b6.
n27śawāsta the finite Pt. of the root śu is always formed from the stem śāwā in this ms.
n28mloṣä from *mlau ‘molten’, PPt. of the root mäl-, ca. ‘be squashed, melt (?)’, which is also etymologically related to German schmelzen ‘melt’ (IE *(s)mel-d-).
n29pilke ‘copper, Skt. tāmra’.
n31pärnañets for pärnāññeṃts;lalyñe for lalñe; ālīne for ālyine; warpananträ for wärpanantär.
n32pärnañets sic! for pärnāñets.
n34śailyñenta for śailñenta.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1107; TITUS: THT 1107

Edition

Tamai 2014: 371-373; Tamai 2007a: №1107; Schmidt 1986: 13-14, 47-48

Translations

Schmidt 1986: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 (77-79); Tamai 2014: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 (371-373)

Bibliography

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Maue and Röhrborn 1976

Maue, Dieter, and Klaus Röhrborn. 1976. “Ein zweisprachiges Fragment aus Turfan.” Central Asiatic Journal 20: 208–21.

Schmidt 1986

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1986. “Fragmente eines buddhistischen Ordinationsrituals in westtocharischer Sprache. Aus der Schule der Sarvāstivādins. Text, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen und Indizes.” Habilitation.

Tamai 2007a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2007a. “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” Thesaurus indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan collection. 2007. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.

Tamai 2014

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2014. “The Tocharian Karmavācanā.” Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology (ARIRIAB) at Soka University for the Academic Year 2013 17: 365–94.

TITUS

Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.