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THT 1546.b-d

Known as:THT 1546.b-d; Prelim. No. 440; Pencil No. 4981
Cite this page as:"THT 1546.b-d". 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-tht1546b (accessed 09 Mar. 2026).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kumtura
Specific find spot:6. Höhle
Expedition code:T III Qu 2
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Unidentified Jātaka
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:prose; verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 359-360
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:3+

Images

Transliteration

a1/// ·waṃ¯ ¯s spa /// /// – pa¯ ¯stä /// /// – nai – – ///
a2/// [ne] rvāṃ ṣeṃ ske /// /// – ·ai s̝aṃ ṣā – /// /// l· ·n· ṣṣai ///
a3/// ·ai [y]o – ///
b1/// ·ma ya k[ṣa]ṃ¯ ¯ts – /// /// ·t· ntse tke /// /// ·m· l· ///
b2/// we sa ñä – /// /// ṣka : po /// /// – (–) mā ka ///
b3/// – l·e – ///

Transcription

a1/// ·waṃs spä /// /// – päst /// /// – nai – – ///
a2/// nervāṃṣeṃ ske /// /// – ·aiṣäṃ ṣā – /// /// ·n· ṣṣai ///
a3/// ·ai yo – ///
b1/// ·mä yakṣaṃts – /// /// ·t·ntse tke /// /// ·m· ///
b2/// wesäñä – /// /// ṣka : po /// /// – – ka ///
b3/// – l·e – ///

Commentary

Remarks

*Three very small fragment belonging to the same five-lines manuscript as THT 359 and THT 360; even though they do make a joint, all three are edited here together as they have been put under glas.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1546b; TITUS: THT 1546

other

Tamai 2007a: №1546

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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