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THT 163

Known as:THT 163; B 163; Bleistiftnummer 2525
Cite this page as:"THT 163". 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-tht163 (accessed 21 Jun. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:T III MQ 49.16
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Pratītyasamutpāda
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Abhidharma
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Manuscript:Pratītyasamutpāda α
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

Images

Transliteration

a1/// m· nno cai ā [lo] t· ///
a2/// t· yä kne sa śau mo srau kaṃ ///
a3/// la pu tkau wa wai pt❠¯r ///
a4illegible
b3illegible
b4/// ·w· rau ññe śm[ā]· n· [p]· pe ku ///
b5/// kne sa śa ktā lye tā kaṃ tu ·[ä] ///
b6/// nr[ai] ṣṣe • pa klyau ṣta [n]e ///

Transcription

a1n1 /// n no cai ālo ///
a2/// t(e) yäknesa śaumo sraukaṃ ///
a3/// la putkauwa waiptār ///
a4///
b3///
b4/// ·w· rauññe śmā·n· p(a)peku ///
b5/// knesa śäktālye tākaṃ tu ·ä ///
b6/// nraiṣṣepäklyauṣ tane ///

Commentary

Remarks

*In one frame with THT 162 and THT 164. Lines a5-6 and b1-2 are missing.

Philological commentary

n1Sieg and Siegling 1953: 90 transliterate the final akṣara as t[a/ā].

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011C2
Tamai 2011C14

References

other

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 90

Online access

IDP: THT 163; TITUS: THT 163

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 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.

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.