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THT 1144

Known as:THT 1144; Prelim. No. 194; Pencil No. 2138
Cite this page as:Georges-Jean Pinault (transliteration); Michaël Peyrot. "THT 1144". 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-tht1144 (accessed 24 Jun. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Georges-Jean Pinault (transliteration); Michaël Peyrot

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III Š 96.14
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Jātaka/Avadāna

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):6.2 × 6.7 cm
Number of lines:3
Interline spacing:2.0 - 2.3 cm

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Transliteration

a1/// sa klā ṅkaṃ kr· mā [kr]· ///
a2/// da śā stra ntu ā [k]l[u] ///
a3/// [ñ]· knu sa ksa¯ ¯k [ś]· ///
b1/// mk· klyu ṣu ra¯ – ///
b2/// [l]y· ka ñcaṃ wä rta ṣiṃ – ///
b3/// sa ś[ś]i ā rt[s]·oṃ ā ///

Transcription

a1n1 /// s{†ä} klāṅka-ṃ kr(i) kr(i) ///
a2n2 /// (ve)daśāsträntu āklu ///
a3n3 /// ñ(u)k nu säksäk ś· ///
b1/// (tä)m k(a)klyuṣurä(ṣ) ///
b2n4 /// (ā)ly(a)käñcaṃ wärtaṣiṃ – ///
b3/// (wra)saśśi ārts(k)oṃ ā ///

Translation

a1... he rode him/her, [if this is his/her] will or not ...
a2... has taught the teachings of the vedas ...
a3... but I ... sixty ...
b1... having heard this ...
b2... the ... of another forest ...
b3... of the beings ... each day ...

Commentary

Remarks

*The lower margin (recto) is preserved.

Philological commentary

n1klāṅka-ṃ: cf. Carling et al. 2009: 176b.
n2: cf. A 97 b6 vedaśāstraṃ.
n3ñ(u)k nu: another possibility would be ñ (k)[a]knu. There is no vowel sign on top of the ‹ñ›, and there seems to be no ligature part below it, but a lower part ‹k› or ‹u› cannot be excluded.
n4(ā)ly(a)käñcaṃ: this variant is attested once more in A 267 a1, against ālakäñcaṃ in A 12 a3, A 15 a6, A 110 b5 (Sieg et al. 1931: 193).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1144; TITUS: THT 1144

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №1144

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

IDP

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

Sieg et al. 1931

Sieg, Emil, Wilhelm Siegling, and Wilhelm Schulze. 1931. Tocharische Grammatik. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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.

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.