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THT 1148

Known as:THT 1148; Prelim. No. 199; Pencil No. 2282
Cite this page as:Georges-Jean Pinault (transliteration); Michaël Peyrot. "THT 1148". 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-tht1148 (accessed 12 Nov. 2025).

Edition

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

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III Š 91.30
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Nanda?
Text genre:Literary

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):5.1 × 5.8 cm
Number of lines:2
Interline spacing:2.0 ~ 2.1 cm

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Transliteration

a1/// – ///
a2/// – ā tyā lmo¯ ¯s[] ///
a3/// va su ndha ri ku¯ ¯cä ///
b1/// [t]· ṣtā mca¯ ¯s̝ cmo l[aṃ] – ///
b2/// [||] tma¯ ¯s̝ ptā ñka [t]·· ///

Transcription

a1/// – ///
a2/// – ātyā lmos ///
a3n1 /// va sundhari kuc ///
b1/// ṣtām caṣ cmolaṃ – ///
b2/// ॥ tmäṣ ptāñkät (käṣṣi) ///

Translation

a1...
a2... [she was] sitting on the grass ...
a3... Sundarī ... who ...
b1... tree ... in this birth ...
b2... Then the Buddha, the teacher, ...

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1sundhari: sic, certainly for sundari.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1148; TITUS: THT 1148

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №1148

Bibliography

IDP

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

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.