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THT 209.a

Known as:THT 209.a; B 209; B 209a; Bleistiftnummer 2694
Cite this page as:"THT 209.a". 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-tht209 (accessed 05 May 2024).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:T III MQR 55
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Buddhastotra
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 203-209
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:4

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Transliteration

a1– – – ·[t]· n[a]¯ ¯ś ci w[ī] na sk· – ///
a2– sta śa kta lye śka ñce śa k·au – ///
a3///
b3l· r· – ci wī na skau ///
b4– wa wa yau wa ntre [ai] s[i] ///

Transcription

a1 n1 – – – ·t· naś ci wīnask(au) – ///
a2 (śta)sta śaktalye śkäñce śak (k)au(m) ///
a3 ///
b3 l· r· – ci wīnaskau ///
b4 wawayau wantre aisi ///

Commentary

Remarks

By Sieg and Siegling 1953: 124-125 edited as "Nr. 209". In one frame with THT 208 and THT 209.b. Lines a4 and b1-2 are lost. On IDP, recto and verso are reversed compared to Sieg and Siegling 1953: 125.

Philological commentary

n1 w[ī]nask(au): with either ī or i.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008 A3
Tamai 2011 C5
Tamai 2011 C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 209a; TITUS: THT 209

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 124-125

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.”