THT 1547.a
| Known as: | THT 1547.a; Prelim. No. 441; Pencil No. 4983 |
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| 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 19 Aug. 2026). |
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+ |
Images
Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | /// ○ s(·) /// |
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| 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 | /// s· /// |
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| a2 | n1 /// tā kektseñ k·ts· – – – – – /// |
| a3 | /// – – : – ñi olyapo mā l· /// |
| b1 | /// – – wr· ṣpä rṣākeṃ wināskeṃ • rṣā(ke) /// |
| b2 | n2 /// °k{†ä} twe täṅk(w)aṃ ñ·a – ·iṃ /// |
| b3 | /// °ñc{†ä} /// |
Translation
| a2 | ... this body [obl.] ... the belly/womb (?) ... |
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| 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
| n1 | k(·)ts(·) can be a form of kātso 'belly, womb'. |
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| n2 | Pace 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
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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.
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.
