THT 1646.c
| Known as: | THT 1646.c; Prelim. No. 596; Pencil No. 2187 |
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| Cite this page as: | Angelo Mascheroni (translation). "THT 1646.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-tht1646c (accessed 12 Jul. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Angelo Mascheroni (translation) |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Expedition code: | Š 91 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
Object | |
| 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
| a5 | /// [k]y· - [m]u /// |
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| a6 | /// [ñ]ciṃ pra ca[r] [v]ibhi /// |
| b1 | /// [yä] slu ta [mp](e) w – /// |
| b2 | /// mi [m]ā e[s̝a] – /// |
Transcription
| a5 | n1 /// (ratä)(k)y(o) (sā)mu(drä) /// |
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| a6 | /// (āri)ñciṃ pracar vibhi(ṣane) /// |
| b1 | n2 /// (yä)slu tampew(āts) /// |
| b2 | n3 /// (ca)mi mā eṣä(l) /// |
Translation
| a5 | ... the ocean ... with (his) army ... |
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| a6 | ... (his) brother by heart Vibhīṣaṇa ... |
| b1 | ... powerful enemy ... |
| b2 | ... should not be given to him ... |
Other
| a6 | ... "brother by heart" ... (Carling and Pinault 2023: 42-43) |
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| b2 | ... ему (т.е. Раме) не следует отдавать ... (Itkin 2024: 9) |
Commentary
Remarks
| The edition of this fragment is based on Itkin 2024: 9, fragments THT 1646.c is joined to m-tht1370b, and they are connected to A 10. | |
| For the new proposed line order, see Itkin 2024: 9. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | Based on A 10, Itkin 2024: 9 proposes to restore (ratä)[k]y(o) (sā)[m]u(drä). |
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| n2 | Itkin 2024: 9 proposes to restore (yä)slu tampew(āts), i.e. Rāvaṇa, who had abducted Sītā. |
| n3 | Itkin 2024: 9 proposes to restore (ca)mi mā eṣä(l). The subject, given the context, should be Sītā. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 1646c; TITUS: THT 1646
other
Tamai 2007a: №1646; Itkin 2024: 9
Translations
Carling and Pinault 2023: a6 (42-43); Itkin 2024: b2 (9)
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Itkin, Ilya B. 2024. Tocharian A texts from the Berlin Collection: New Data. Moscow. https://www.hse.ru/sci/diss/909852479.
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.
