THT 1231
| Known as: | THT 1231; Prelim. No. 48 |
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| Cite this page as: | Svetlana Burlak; Michaël Peyrot. "THT 1231". 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-tht1231 (accessed 08 Dec. 2023). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Svetlana Burlak; Michaël Peyrot |
Provenience | |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW) |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Buddhastotra |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
Object | |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 5 |
Images
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// ś· mñe ṣṣe – /// |
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| a2 | /// – (–) – ś[ai] ṣṣe ne ī ke – /// |
| a3 | /// – kk[e] nta śai ṣṣe ntse ma rsa rṣṣa ñca la kle nta [śl]e /// |
| a4 | /// ta nma ṣṣe ñca po yśī nta ā we mā ce rśai ṣṣe ntse kre /// |
| b1 | /// ·ñ· po nta kre ntau na¯ ¯ts• yo lai ññe nta tra ṅko nta cā /// |
| b2 | /// 6 me ska rai twe śi la ṣṣi ka lṣa mñe ṣṣa – – /// |
| b3 | /// [sa] 80 7 nau mye nta [ṣ](·)· /// |
| b4 | /// yo ktsi ci ñca ·e /// |
| b5 | /// – /// |
Transcription
| a1 | n1 /// (ai)ś(a)mñeṣṣe – /// |
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| a2 | /// – – – śaiṣṣene īke – /// |
| a3 | n2n3 /// – kkenta śaiṣṣentse marsärṣṣañca läklenta śle /// |
| a4 | n4n5n6 /// tanmäṣṣeñca poyśīnta āwe mācer śaiṣṣentse kre /// |
| b1 | /// ·ñ· ponta krentaunats yolaiññenta träṅkonta cā /// |
| b2 | n7 /// (80-)6 meska raitwe śilaṣṣi kälṣamñeṣṣa – – /// |
| b3 | /// sa 80-7 naumyentaṣ(ṣ)· /// |
| b4 | n8 /// (śwātsi) yoktsi ciñca(r)e /// |
| b5 | /// – /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... of wisdom ... |
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| a2 | ... in the world ... a place ... |
| a3 | ... the ... of the world; one who makes forget the sorrows; with ... |
| a4 | ... one who begets omniscient [Buddhas]; the grandfather [and] mother of the world; ... the good ... |
| b1 | ... of all virtues; evils [and] offences ... |
| b2 | ...(8)6 Joint [and] connection of moral behaviour; ... of endurance ... |
| b3 | ... 87 ... of the jewels ... |
| b4 | ... (food) [and] drink ... lovely ... |
| b5 | ... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| Striking is the lack of any finite verb form in the fragment: as far as can be established with the fragmentary portions preserved, the text consists of a series of nominal phrases consisting of a head noun and an adjective, genitive, locative, object, etc. In style it thus reminds of for instance the Buddhastotra with epithets in alphabetical order edited by Schlingloff 1955: 82-83. Indeed, this fragment seems to be part of a Buddhastotra as well, but so far no system in the sequence of the epithets can be found. The asignment of recto and verso is uncertain. | |
| Even though pāda-marking punctuation seems to be lacking completely, the whole text is probably metrical, witness the strophe numbers b2 (8)6 and b3 87. The metre is most probably 4 x 7¦7, in view of the fact that in all lines sequences of 4 and 3 syllables alternate: a1: (ai)ś(a)mñeṣṣe + 3 syllables a2: 4 syllables + śaiṣṣene a3: 2 syllables + kkenta śaiṣṣentse a3: marsärṣṣañca läklenta a4: tanmäṣṣeñca poyśīnta a4: āwe mācer śaiṣṣentse b1: 1 syllable + ·ñ· ponta krentaunats b1: yolaiññenta träṅkonta b2: meska raitwe śilaṣṣi b2: kälṣamñeṣṣa + 3 syllables b3: naumyentaṣ(ṣ)· + 3 syllables b4: 2 syllables + yoktsi ciñca(r)e The only places where pāda-marking punctuation might be found are b1 krentaunats\•, if the virāma dot replaces the pāda-final dot; and a4 śaiṣṣentse, which has a remarkable extra stroke on top of the last akṣara. If the metre is indeed 4 x 7¦7, the length of one line was approximately 50 syllables (4 x 14 = 56 syllables from 86 to 87; but since 87 stands about 7 akṣaras right of 86, the line length is 56 – 7 = 49). | |
| n1 | (ai)ś(a)mñeṣṣe: possibly followed by sārathiṃ 'charioteer', cf. PK AS 5B a5 = THT 313 a5. |
| n2 | /// – kk[e]nta: possibly the e-vowel is actually r. A reading to consider would be [y](ä)[r]kk(e)nta. |
| n3 | marsarṣṣañca: the second r is miswritten for e; read marsaṣṣeñca (see Malzahn 2010b: 758; Peyrot 2013c: 787. |
| n4 | : cf. Thomas 1988b: 161. |
| n5 | āwe: the translation 'grandfather' of Thomas 1988b: 161 is here provisionally followed, even though this definitely needs further confirmation. |
| n6 | śaiṣṣentse: a stroke on top of the last akṣara is probably to be ignored. |
| n7 | meska raitwe śilaṣṣi: This sequence is difficult to analyse. The easiest seems to take meska raitwe as a juxtaposed meske raitwe 'joint [and] connection'. However, the following śilaṣṣi can only be a nom.pl.m., so that the two words meske raitwe together would be a plural, a construction not normally found in Tocharian (perhaps this is a calque on Sanskrit?). Not probable is an interpretation meska rai twe 'O joint, you!' with meska as a vocative, because then śilaṣṣi would be even more difficult (the regular vocative would be śilaṣṣu). |
| n8 | yoktsi: there are traces under the first akṣara that cannot belong to it if this reading is correct. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 1231; TITUS: THT 1231
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №1231
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Malzahn, Melanie. 2010b. The Tocharian verbal system. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2013c. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Schlingloff, Dieter. 1955. Buddhistische Stotras aus ostturkistanischen Sanskrittexten. Sanskrittexte aus den Turfanfunden 1. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
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. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.
Thomas, Werner. 1988b. “Toch. B orotse-pacere ‘Großeltern’?” Historische Sprachforschung 101: 155–65.
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