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THT 1499

Known as:THT 1499; Prelim. No. 364
Cite this page as:"THT 1499". 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-tht1499 (accessed 06 Mar. 2026).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil
Specific find spot:Stifterhöhle 1. Schlucht
Expedition code:T IV Qizil
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:7

Images

Transliteration

a1/// pa ṣu kiṃ no vā ·i ///
a2/// w[ä] rñai ce ynāṃ¯ ¯s – ///
a3/// a na ndā rśne || tsa ///
a4/// we se klā te e m·e ///
a5/// – śa ri pu ṇyi se ///
a6/// – ski ta¯ ¯r ta – ///
a7/// || su na ti ///
b1/// – nte ne • pu ///
b2/// – rnā meṃ skā kne ///
b3/// – ke ya pko tsai ·ai ///
b4/// kt· kṣe mā rju ne wa ///
b5/// lā [n]ts· mpa si ddhā r[th]e ///
b6/// – mnta ne o stye n[o] – ///
b7/// lā nte kau tstsa¯ ¯ś ///

Transcription

a1/// pa ṣu kiṃ no ·i ///
a2/// wärñai ce ynāṃs – ///
a3/// anandārśnetsa ///
a4/// we se klāte em·e ///
a5/// – śa ri puṇyi se ///
a6/// – skitär – ///
a7/// ॥ su na ti ///
b1/// – ntenepu ///
b2/// – rnāmeṃ skākne ///
b3/// – ke ya pko tsai ·ai ///
b4/// kt· kṣem ārjune wa ///
b5/// nts·mpa siddhārthe ///
b6/// – mnta ne ostye no – ///
b7/// lānte kautstsaś ///

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1499; TITUS: THT 1499

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №1499; Ogihara 2014: 110-111

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2014

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2014. “Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 15: 103–29.

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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