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THT 1249

Known as:THT 1249; Prelim. No. 64
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz (translation). "THT 1249". 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-tht1249 (accessed 13 Mar. 2026).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz (translation)

Provenience

Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Manuscript:Avadāna
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

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Transliteration

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a1/// ke ṣpa ne ci rkā ne sa ksa rtse kly· ntsa • ṣpa ne lkā t[s]i ///
a2/// n·a [k]e ma ṅkā wa • pra dyo te e ṅsa te¯ ¯ñä po nau ·ai ///
a3/// p[ai] ne ne klo yo ma¯ ¯r śau la ṣṣai pro skai ne pa ka ///
a4/// – soṃ śka se sta¯ ¯rś || sā ra ṇe we ṣṣaṃ sa – ///
a5/// – ñä || o mno kā tyā ya – ///
b1/// ·k· ma¯ ¯r śtwa rā ykne re tke mp· – ///
b2/// – trai ne o ko mā ka ra no e nä ske ma ne – ///
b3/// k·au tko ma¯ ¯r ko¯ ¯s cwī te ntse pa rki mā yā mma¯ ¯r || ///
b4/// ·k·¯ ¯t pai ntsa¯ ¯s̝ ta ne sa bra hma cā ri nta wā ṣmo ///
b5/// m·[ṃ] o rka mo tā ka kā nyā ya ne cau ṣa¯ ¯ñä leṃ ///

Transcription

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a1/// ke ṣpane cirkā-nesa ksartse kly(a)ntsaṣpane lkātsi ///
a2/// n·a ke mäṅkāwapradyote eṅsateñ po nau ·ai ///
a3/// painene kloyomar śaulaṣṣai proskaine pa k·a ///
a4/// – soṃśka se starśsāraṇe weṣṣäṃ sa – ///
a5/// – ñäom no kātyāya(ne) ///
b1/// ·k· mar śtwarāykne retkemp(a) – ///
b2/// – traine oko māka rano enäskemane – ///
b3/// k(l)autkomar kos cwī tentse parki yāmmar ॥ ///
b4/// ·k·t paintsa tane sa brahmacārinta wāṣmo ///
b5/// m(e)ṃ orkamo tāka kānyāyane cau ṣañ leṃ ///

Translation

a1... let sleep over him (?),
a1he slept early.
a1... dream...
a1+... I was deprived...
a2Pradyota seized me... all...
a2+... I am falling to (your?) feet.
a3In fear for my life...
a3+... dear son, this... is yours.
a4Sāraṇa says...
a5Then, Kātyāyana...
a5+... with the army of four kinds...
b2... in three... as fruit... also instructing many...
b2+... I turn... as long as I do not benefit him.
b3+... on the feet... here... the Brahmacārin... friend...
b4+... was darkness... from...
b5Kātyāyana... his own cell...

Commentary

Remarks

*Same leaf as THT 1681 and THT 2981.f.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1249; TITUS: THT 1249

other

Ogihara 2012

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №1249

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2012

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2012. “The ‘Avadāna manuscript’ in Tocharian B.” Tokyo University Linguistic Papers 32: 109–243. http://repository.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2261/52749/1/ggr032007.pdf.

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.