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THT 223.a

Known as:THT 223.a; THT 223.1; B 223.1; Bleistiftnummer 2687
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot. "THT 223.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-tht223a (accessed 21 Mar. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Michaël Peyrot

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Specific find spot:Rothkuppelraum
Expedition code:T III MQR 69
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Add. linguistic characteristics:archaic
Script:classical

Text contents

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

Object

Manuscript:THT 220-223
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Images

Transliteration

a2/// [s]k· – ///
a3/// dh[i] sā tveṃ ṣā rka – ///
a4/// – dha tyā mo¯ ¯s̝ ka ru ntsa ///
a5/// re na ta ṅmai yyā [t](·)[e] ///
b1/// [w]· e [r]sa tai pa lsk· – ///
b2/// kca sa klya kā sta eṃ ///
b3/// tkā lyce no¯ ¯ṅk [w]· ///
b4/// – – ///

Transcription

a2/// sk· – ///
a3/// (bo)dhisātveṃ ṣārka(tai) ///
a4/// – dhat yāmoṣ karuntsa ///
a5/// rena täṅ maiyyāt(s)e ///
b1/// ersatai palsk(o) – ///
b2/// kca säk lyakāsta eṃ ///
b3/// (wä)tkālyce noṅk ///
b4/// – – ///

Commentary

Remarks

*In one frame with THT 223.b and THT 223.c. Extracts from this fragment were edited by Sieg and Siegling 1953: 133 under Nr. 223, Frgm. 1. Lines a1 and b5 are lost.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008A3
Tamai 2011C1
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 223a; TITUS: THT 223

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 133

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.