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THT 1540.g

Known as:THT 1540.g; Prelim. No. 432; Pencil No. 3312
Cite this page as:"THT 1540.g". 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-tht1540g (accessed 07 Nov. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:T III MQ 69
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:middle archaic

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:4

Images

Transliteration

a1/// ·u ///
a2/// s· ·k· wa twā ññe ///
a3/// – tā ko mña¯ ¯ś yo lyai ·ä mai yä l·e ///
a4/// [bra] hma ṇe – – ·ai ra – ka nte ·ai – – ///
b1/// kuse ta ll· (–) ·t· – mtsi kuse wa¯ ¯t – ///
b2/// ·o ·e ki ·e wā ·o¯ ¯s̝ po ā ñ·ā ///
b3/// – s·ā a ṣ·ā ka [s]e ///

Transcription

a1/// ·u ///
a2/// ·k· wa twā ññe ///
a3/// – tākom ñaś yolyai ·ä maiyä l·e ///
a4/// brahmaṇe – – ·ai raka nte ·ai – – ///
b1/// kuse ll··t·mtsi kuse wat – ///
b2/// ·o ·e ki ·e ·oṣ po āñ·ā ///
b3/// – s·ā a ṣ·ā se ///

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1540g; TITUS: THT 1540

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №1540

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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