CEToM | THT 226

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THT 226

Known as:THT 226; B 226; Bleistiftnummer 2759
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz (translation). "THT 226". 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-tht226&outputformat=print (accessed 13 Apr. 2026).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz (translation)

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Specific find spot:Rothkuppelraum
Expedition code:T III MQR 79
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:archaic

Text contents

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

Object

Manuscript:THT 224-227
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:3

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

a1/// ṣṣe ta¯ ¯ṅws la reṃ s[o] yñcka ra mta 6 yke p[o] [s]ta
a2/// śśa nmu se kle śa nma ṣṣe[ṃ] śa nma nma sa prā kre mā
a3/// [meṃ] tsä lpa tsi¯ ¯s̝c wro [cc]ā ñma la ṣl·e sa wä l·e
b1/// ka ruṃ ce¯ ¯u [o] ro cce ta¯ ¯ñ kuce sa to tw[ä] lke [s]· –
b2/// no snai ke śla kle ntā lya ka stā twe ma pi [ś]ai ṣṣe ta ñ[s̝a]
b3/// tsi ne¯ ¯u s̝a k[ta] ñcä m[pa] mñe ṣe¯ – wro tsā ñma la ṣ[l]·e

Transcription

a1/// ṣṣe täṅw s lareṃ soyñcka ramt{†ä} 6 yke postä
a2/// śśänmu se kleśänmaṣṣeṃ śänmanmasa prākre
a3/// meṃ tsälpatsiṣc wrocc= āñmalaṣl(ñ)esa wäl(k)e
b1/// karuṃ ceu orocce täñ kucesa tot wälke
b2/// no snai keś läklentā lyakastā twe mapi śaiṣṣe täñ ṣä
b3/// tsi neuṣä-k täñ cämpämñe ṣe(-k) wrots= āñmalaṣl(ñ)e

Translation

a1... love for... like the dear
a1Step by step...
a1+... this one, firmly bound by the shackles that are the Kleśas, ... not...
a2+... for long with great compassion... to save... from (saṃsāra/the Kleśas)...
a3+... your great compassion, through which for so long...
b1+... you experienced pain without number.
b2Surely, the world... to you...
b2+... earlier, your power was always your great compassion...

Commentary

Remarks

*In one frame with THT 225 and THT 227.a, THT 227.b, THT 227.c.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008A1
Malzahn 2007aA4
Tamai 2011A2
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 226; TITUS: THT 226

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 135

Translations

Thomas 1957: a2 (265); Thomas 1968: a1 (205)

Bibliography

IDP

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

Malzahn 2007a

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007a. “The most archaic manuscripts of Tocharian B and the varieties of the Tocharian B language.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 255–97. Heidelberg: Winter.

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.

Thomas 1957

Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Thomas 1968

Thomas, Werner. 1968. “Zur Verwendung von toch. A oki/B ramt und A mäṃtne/B mäkte in Vergleichen.” Orbis 17: 198–231.

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.

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