THT 1578.a
| Known as: | THT 1578.a; Prelim. No. 492; Pencil No. 4984 |
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| Cite this page as: | Melanie Malzahn. "THT 1578.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-tht1578a (accessed 07 Nov. 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 709 |
| 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: | 2+ |
Images
Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| lf | 40 9 |
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| a1 | rto ne¯ ¯s̝ yā /// |
| a2 | ne¯ ¯ś• la re /// |
| a3 | (– – –) [l](·) /// |
| b1 | ki naṃ ñe ya /// |
| b2 | e cce śe ma – /// |
Transcription
| lf | 40-9 |
| * | (wa)¬ |
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| a1 | ¬rtone ṣ yā° /// |
| a2 | n1 °neś lare(ñ) /// |
| a3 | – – – l· /// |
| b1 | n2 ki naṃ ñe ya /// |
| b2 | n3 ecce śema(-ñ) /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... and in the (for)est ... |
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| a2 | ... towards ... the dear [ones] ... |
| a3 | ... |
| b1 | ... |
| b2 | (s)he came hither (to me) ... |
Commentary
Remarks
| Small fragment from the left part of a five-line leaf with the left margin and leaf number preserved. Mentioned in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 323 sub no. 354 but not edited. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | -neś is most likely the end of an allative form. |
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| n2 | Word separation unclear. |
| n3 | A small part of the ñ is still visible. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 1578a; TITUS: THT 1578
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №1578
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.
