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THT 1616.c

Known as:THT 1616.c; Prelim. No. 541; Pencil No. 2643
Cite this page as:"THT 1616.c". 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-tht1616c (accessed 06 Dec. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:MQR
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

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

Images

Transliteration

a1/// – [n]· – ///
a2/// – kwi rso – ///
a3/// keṃ [ya] – – – ///
a4/// – ///
b1///
b2/// t· sa ///
b3/// – ne s· – ///
b4/// – mā ne ṣa [m]· – ///

Transcription

a1/// – – ///
a2/// (śa)k wi rso(nta) ///
a3/// keṃ ya(skaṣṣalya) ///
a4/// – ///
b1///
b2/// sa ///
b3/// – ne – ///
b4/// (ṣa)māne ṣam(āneṃ) ///

Translation

a2/// twelve spans ///
a3/// the ground [should be begged] ///
b3/// a monk ... [a monk] ///

Commentary

Remarks

*Frg. zu MQ 49.2/3; tw. ed. sub B 323: (Frg. 1 = Frg. f; Frg. 2 = Frg. b; Frg. 3 = Frg. e; Frg. 4 = Frg. g)

References

Online access

IDP: THT 1616c; TITUS: THT 1616

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №1616; Ogihara 2009: 194-195

Bibliography

IDP

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

Ogihara 2009

Ogihara, Hirotoshi. 2009. “Researches about Vinaya-texts in Tocharian A and B [Recherches sur le Vinaya en tokharien A et B].” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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