THT 189

Known as:	THT 189; B 189; Bleistiftnummer 2406
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Provenience
Main find spot:	Murtuk
Expedition code:	T III M 146.2
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:	late
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Abhidharmakośa
Passage:	(a)pratisaṃkhyānirodha
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Abhidharma
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	Abhidharmakośa δ
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	5

Images

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Transliteration

a1	/// sra vā nā sra ve bhyo la bhya ta i tya rtha • mā kuce tu pra ti saṃ khyā ni ///
a2	/// dha rmā ye bhya pra ti saṃ khyā ni ro dho la bhya te nā pra ti sa(·) khyā ni ro dha \| ne saṃ ///
a3	/// saṃ wi te po ka lpā sta¯ ¯r^• • sa nti ye bhyo no bha yaṃ la bhya ta i [ti] ///
a4	/// śco tpa tti dha rme bhyā sā sra ve bhya • a ti¯ ¯t^• pra tyu tpaṃ pe lai kne nta meṃ ///
a5	/// t· saṃ khyā ni ro dha kka ka ka lpā sta¯ ¯r^• • a nā ga te bhyo nā sra ve bhyo nu tpa tti dha ·e ///
b1	/// ṅka lñe ṣa ñi ñe tsa na pe lai kne nta m[eṃ] • kuse kli ṣṭe s[ta] re tu sa pra ti saṃ khyā ni [r]o ///
b2	/// lpā ske nta¯ ¯r \| a nā sra ve bhya u tpa tti dha rme bhyo ti ta pra tyu tpa nne ///
b3	/// ñe tsa na sta re tu sa a pra ti saṃ khyā ni ro¯ ¯t mā ka lpā sta¯ ¯r ///
b4	/// re ṇa va kṣyā ma • tai sa ktu ka po staṃ • ta ne o rtse sa we ñe¯ ¯m ///
b5	/// r[v]i jñā naṃ tse • ta da nyā ni ru pā nta rā ṇi • tu mpa meṃ a lo ṅkna śa ///

Transcription

*	sravānāsravebhyo labhyata ity artha

*	• mā k_uce tu pratisaṃkhyāni(rot) ///
a2	///

*	dharmā yebhya pratisaṃkhyānirodho labhyate nāpratisa(ṃ)khyānirodha

*	। nesäṃ ///
a3	/// (ne)säṃ wi te po kälpāstar •

*	santi yebhyo nobhayaṃ labhyata iti

*	ś cotpattidharmebhyā sāsravebhya

*	• atit pratyutpaṃ pelaiknentameṃ ///
a5	/// (pra)t(i)saṃkhyānirodha kka ka kälpāstar •

*	anāgatebhyo nāsravebhyo nutpattidha ·e ·

*	///
b1	/// (snai) (tsä)ṅkalñe ṣañiñetsana pelaiknentameṃ • k_use kliṣṭe stare tusa pratisaṃkhyāniro(t) ///
b2	/// (kä)lpāskentar ।

*	anāsravebhya utpattidharmebhyo titapratyutpanne

*	///
b3	/// (ṣañi)ñetsana stare tusa apratisaṃkhyānirot mā kälpāstar ///
b4	///

*	(vista)reṇa vakṣyāma

*	• taisa-k tu ka postaṃ • tane ortsesa weñem ///
b5	/// r vijñānaṃtse •

*	tadanyāni rupāntarāṇi

*	• tumpameṃ aloṅkna śa ///

Translation

b4	[SKT:] ... we will say in detail [TB:] likewise we will afterwards say here in detail

Other

b4	[skt:] … we will say in detail [tb:] likewise we will afterwards say here in detail (Peyrot 2013b: 290)

References

Online access

IDP: THT 189; TITUS: THT 189

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 108-109

Translations

Peyrot 2013b: b4, b4 (290)

Bibliography

IDP

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

Peyrot 2013b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

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.

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.