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THT 1547.a

Known as:THT 1547.a; Prelim. No. 441; Pencil No. 4983
Cite this page as:Melanie Malzahn. "THT 1547.a". 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-tht1547a (accessed 15 Jul. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Melanie Malzahn
Date of online publication:2014-07-31

Provenience

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

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

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

Object

Manuscript:THT 352-354
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:3+

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Transliteration

a1/// ○ s(·) ///
a2/// [t]ā ke ktse¯ ¯ñä k(·) ts(·) (– –) – (–) – ///
a3/// – (–) : – ñi o lya po mā l· ///
b1/// – (–) [wr]· s̝pa rṣā keṃ wi nā skeṃ • rṣā ///
b2/// ka twe ta ṅ[k](·)aṃ [ñ](·)a (–) ·iṃ ///
b3/// ○ ñcä ///

Transcription

a1/// ///
a2n1 /// kektseñ k·ts· – – – – – ///
a3/// – – : – ñi olyapo ///
b1/// – – wr· ṣpä rṣākeṃ wināskeṃrṣā(ke) ///
b2n2 /// °k{†ä} twe täṅk(w)aṃ ñ·a·iṃ ///
b3/// °ñc{†ä} ///

Translation

a2... this body [obl.] ... the belly/womb (?) ...
b1... and they venerate the Ṛṣi. The Ṛṣi ...

Commentary

Remarks

*Small fragment from the middle of a five-line leaf with the string hole. Party edited in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 232 sub no. 354.

Philological commentary

n1k(·)ts(·) can be a form of kātso 'belly, womb'.
n2Pace Tamai, one has to read ans restore k(\) twe taṅ[k](w)aṃ instead of kante taṅ·aṃ ·o.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1547a; TITUS: THT 1547

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №1547

Bibliography

IDP

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

Sieg and Siegling 1953

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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