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THT 188

Known as:THT 188; B 188; Bleistiftnummer 2374
Cite this page as:"THT 188". 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-tht188 (accessed 07 Mar. 2026).

Provenience

Main find spot:Murtuk
Expedition code:T III M 175.3
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:late
Script:classical

Text contents

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

Object

Manuscript:Abhidharmakośa γ
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Images

Transliteration

a4/// ki me te saṃ skṛ tā dha rmā • kuse to¯ ¯yä saṃ ///
a5/// y· ta sa ho tpā da a pi ke ci dvi dya nta i ///
b1/// p[aṃ] ce mā dha rma jā ta ya[¯] [¯][t] tu ne¯ ¯k o ltso rsa pi[¯] [¯][ś] ///
b2/// mṣu wa s̝pa • snai cme lñe tsa na pa¯ ¯t • ta tr· ///
b3illegible

Transcription

a4/// kim ete saṃskṛtā dharmākuse toy saṃ ///
a5/// y(a)ta sahotpāda api kecid vidyanta i ///
b1/// paṃcemā dharmajātayat tune-k oltsorsa piś ///
b2/// (tetaṃ)mṣuwa ṣpäsnai cmelñetsana pattatr(a) ///
b3///

Commentary

Remarks

*Lines a1-3 and b4-5 are lost. On IDP, recto and verso are reversed.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008L
Tamai 2011C1
Tamai 2011C14

References

other

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 108

Online access

IDP: THT 188; TITUS: THT 188

Bibliography

IDP

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

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

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.