THT 248

Known as:	THT 248; B 248; Bleistiftnummer 2597
Cite this page as:	"THT 248". 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-tht248 (accessed 06 Jun. 2026).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:	T III MQ 17.27
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	archaic
Add. linguistic characteristics:	late
Script:	middle archaic
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Buddhastotra
Verse/Prose:	verse
Meter:	5555 (1x), 444343 (1x), 55 (1x), 4443 (1x)
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	3.2 × 11 cm
Number of lines:	3

Transliteration

a1	/// [s̝s̝](·) tsa rka lyñe sa krui ce¯ ¯u meṃ sva lwai nsa ko stai me yyā to tpa lks̝aṃ ma ntra kuse wña
a2	/// e¯ ¯u ○ rtsñe sa ta ñkre nte wna ko sñi cä mpa mñe to twe ñe¯ ¯u ñe ñmu ta r[n]e
a3	/// [2] pa ls(·)o sa e rwt[s]e tre ṅka tte ci mpā ne śle ta ko y[t]a to tyo ka nta ñpo ta [k]o
b1	/// ·ta [rc]ṣ(·) ksn[a] [y](·) ñu y[ä] lts· ka lpa nma a ro nvo mā ta ñ[i] r[o] pa l[e]¯ ¯u n(·) k[u]t(·)
b2	/// ktai ○ śa mñe sā spa ntai we ntsi cä mpi mcä 3 śtwe rśka nma ṣṣā streṃ ke me
b3	/// ko¯ ¯ī ntsa cä ñcro na wña sta tsa lype lye ntspe lki ñä s̝a ñkre ntau na snai ne tka

2a	a1n1 /// ṣṣ(äṃ) tsärkälyñesa
2b	kr_ui ce_umeṃ svalwainsa ko= s{t→n}ai meyyā tot pälkṣäṃ
2c	mänt ra k_use wñaa2(re) (onolmi) ; /// ; e_urtsñesa täñ krentewna
2d	kos ñi cämpämñe tot weñe_u ; ñeñmu tärne a3 /// 2
3a	päls(k)osa erwts= etreṅkätte ; cimpā =neśle takoy {n}ta
3b	tot yokäntañ po takob1(yeṃ)n2 ; ; /// ·tärc ṣ(e)k snay (ā)ñu
3c	yälts(e) kalpänma aron vo ; mā täñ iro pale_un(a)
3d	k_ut(a)b2(meṃ) (ñäś) (ye)kt= aiśämñesā ; späntai wentsi cämpim-cä 3
4a	śtwer śkänmaṣṣ= āstreṃ kemeb3(ntsa) ; (yaitoṣ) ko_īntsa cäñcrona
4b	wñasta tsälypelyents pelkiñä ; ṣäñ krentauna snai netk{a→e}

a1	... through torture.
a1	If, from this one, through... how much he can, so much he burns (him?).
a1+	Thus, which beings said... in breadth your virtues, as many as I have the ability to, so many I will relate with the crown of the head bowed down ...
a3	Even if someone was broad and not clinging in mind like you, even if so many drinkers were all... always without cessation, even if a thousand kalpas end totally, the praise for you would not cease (?)n3
b1+	Whence could I confidently speak for you with my meagre knowledge?
b2+	With your mouth, adorned with pure teath of four decades, you related delightful virtues of your own for the sake of those who are to be liberated, without urging.

a2	As much as I have the ability, so much I will say with the crown of the head bowed down … (Peyrot 2013b: 709)

*	The meter has 4x15 syllables (8/7 or 7/8).
n1	According to the calculation by Sieg/Siegling in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 149, pāda 2b ends after pälkṣäṃ and lacks two syllables. Sieg/Siegling also propose to correct svalwainsa into swañcainsa.
n3	Interpreting iro as āroy.

n2	Thomas 1997: 109 fn. 198 considers iro a mistake for .

Hackstein 1995: a1 (111), a2 (68); Peyrot 2013b: a2 (709); Thomas 1952: b3 (49); Thomas 1957: a1 a2 (221), b2 (176); Thomas 1970a: b1 (460); Thomas 1997: b1 (109)