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THT 251

Known as:	THT 251; B 251
Cite this page as:	"THT 251". 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-tht251 (accessed 05 May 2024).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shorchuk
Expedition code:	T III Š 29.3
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:	archaic
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Śatapañcāśatka
Passage:	82-91
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Buddhastotra
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

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Transliteration

a1	ta va nā [n]ya tra śā sa na – – – ¯ñ mā a lye ke pi e na s̝s̝a lyñe 80 2 e va me kā nta kā ntaṃ nte • ma ntrā kka a lo ka lymi cä ñca re /// /// na bā li śa : pi lko nt· ///
a2	ya di vi ga rha· [t]i – – – (–) [k]wr[i] nā kse· ra – – sti dṛ ṣṭi sa mo ri pu : mā ne saṃ pi lko nta mpa e ne śle sā¯ ¯m 80 3 a nvā bhuṃ [k]th· /// /// • y· ma ne ta kā sta kuse ///
a3	sa naṃ ba hu : ś[ai] – – (–) ñyā tse mā ka – ta tsa· smṛ [tya] vi rū pe pi • tu e pi yā¯ ¯cä klo rmeṃ mā ta se mā ne ne ra [no] /// /// sa [n]e bha ve¯ ¯t klye [ll]e ///
a4	80 4 prā ge va hi – – [k]tu śca • [k]ut[e] nno s̝pa ka rtse we ṣṣe ñca ntse • hi [ta] ka rtu śca śā sa [na]¯ ¯m • ka rtse ya mi ntse ///
a5	– lle tā ko¯ ¯i • ā [dī] [p]ta śi ra sā pi te • sa lpo wsai a ṣtsa ra n[o] ta¯ ¯ñä 80 5 bhu ji ṣya tā bo dhi su kha¯ ¯m • s̝a ñā ñmtsa ne sa lyñe ka [r]sa ///
a6	– mai na tsä ññe • prā – ·e tvā tma tā t· rva¯ ¯m • yä nmā stra ta¯ ¯ñ pe lai kne meṃ po • i daṃ bha dra ca tu ṣṭa ya¯ ¯m • te maṃ¯ ¯nt mai ma ntse śtwe rā tse ///
b1	– mu ce ru pa tā pa n· – – – ra ntse pa lśa lyñ· • ā śvā sa naṃ [n]ṛ de vā nā¯ ¯m • tsā rwä s̝a lyñe śā mna ñä kte tsä • ka ro ti ta va śā sa na¯ ¯m • ya ma· ṃ ///
b2	– cme la tse o ro tse [k]· nä ttse • a sa ṅga ma na pa gra ha¯ ¯m • s[nai] tre ṅ[ka][¯] [¯][l] snai kra mpā lyñe tse • śā sa ne na ta va krā ntaṃ • wä tkā s̝s̝a lyñe sa ta ///
b3	·s· ra no wä tkā s̝s̝a [l]· 80 8 tva cchā sa na ra sa jño hi • ta¯ ¯ñ wä tkā s̝s̝a lyñe ntse śu ke ai śe ñca ka tu • tī ṣṭhe [tka] l· ///
b4	vā svai rī • yaṃ ma – – – ma kte ā [ñ]me • ya tra mṛ tyo ra go ca ra : e n[t]e sru kā lyñe ntse mā ymi ye • 80 9 ā ga ma /// /// • [ś]· – wä nta r· ///
b5	pā sa na sya – – – – lyñe lā re [ya] mä lyñe tse • kā la tra ya vi bhā go sti • pre ści ya ntso ta ryā ntso pā ke ya ma lyñe ne saṃ /// /// [ta] – [śā] sa na¯ ¯m • mā pa rna ///
b6	ka l[y]ā [ṇa] ka li la¯ ¯m • – ·(·)ā kka kre ntau na sa ā cce • ta ve va mṛ ṣi pu ṅga va • ta ñce rṣā ka ññe ṣṣu kau rṣu : śā sa naṃ nā śra yaṃ /// /// kn[e] mā sai mya mä ske ntra k[u]·e ///

Transcription

	tava nānyatra śāsana(m)

	(•) (tä)ñ mā alyekepi enäṣṣälyñe 80-2

	evam ekāntakāntaṃn te

	• mäntrākka alokälymi cäñcare (täñ)

	(dṛṣṭirāge)na bāliśa

	: pilkont(a) ///
a2

	yadi vigarha(ṃ) ti

	(•) (pelaikne) kwri nākse(nt)rä (•)

	(nā)sti dṛṣṭisamo ripu

	: mā nesäṃ pilkontampa eneśle sām 80-3

	anvābhuṃkth(ā) (yad) (asyārthaṃ)

	• y(u)mane takāsta kuse ///
a3

	sanaṃ bahu

	: śai(ṣṣentse) ñyātse māka (•)

	tat sa(ṃ)smṛtya virūpe pi

	• tu epiyāc klormeṃ mā tasemānene rano

	(stheyaṃ) (te) (śā)sane bhavet

	klyelle ///
a4	80-4

	prāg eva hi(tava) ktuś ca

	• kute nno ṣpä kärtse weṣṣeñcantse •

	hitakartuś ca śāsanam

	• kärtse-yamintse /// (yama)-
a5	-(ṣṣä)lle tākoi •

	ādīptaśirasāpi te

	• sälpowsai aṣtsa rano täñ 80-5

	bhujiṣyatā bodhisukham

	• ṣäñ āñmtsa nesälyñe kärsa ///
a6	– mainätsäññe •

	prā(pyat)e tvātmatāt (sa)rvam

	• yänmāsträ täñ pelaiknemeṃ po •

	idaṃ bhadracatuṣṭayam

	• te mäṃnt maimantse śtwerātse ///
b1

	(na)mucer upatāpan(am)

	(•) (mā)räntse pälśälyñ(e) •

	āśvāsanaṃ nṛdevānām

	• tsārwäṣälyñe śāmna ñäktetsä •

	karoti tava śāsanam

	• yama(ṣṣä)ṃ ///
b2	– cmelatse orotse k(e)nättse •

	asaṅgam anapagraham

	• snai treṅkäl snai krämpālyñetse •

	śāsanena tava krāntaṃ

	• wätkāṣṣälyñesa tä(ñ) /// (mārä)-
b3	-(nt)s(e) rano wätkāṣṣäl(yñe) 80-8

	tvacchāsanarasajño hi

	• täñ wätkāṣṣälyñentse śuke aiśeñca katu •

	tīṣṭhet kal(lpam)

	vā svairī

	• yaṃ ma(kte) (tane) mäkte āñme •

	yatra mṛtyor agocara

	: ente srukālyñentse mā ymiye • 80-9

	āgama(syārthacintāyā)

	• ś(āstärntse) wäntär(e) ///
b5

	pāsanasya (ca)

	(waräṣṣa)lyñe lāre yamälyñetse •

	kālatrayavibhāgo sti

	• preściyantso täryāntso pāke yamalyñe nesäṃ (•)

	(nānyatra) ta(va) śāsanam

	• mā parna ///
b6

	kalyāṇakalilam

	• (mäntr)ākka krentaunasa ācce •

	tavevam ṛṣipuṅgava

	• täñ ce rṣākäññeṣṣu kaurṣu :

	śāsanaṃ nāśrayaṃ(ti) (ye)

	(•) (pelai)kne mā saim yamäskenträ ku(s)e ///

Translation

a1	Your teaching, not that of anyone else is in this way singularly lovely, your...
a1+	... (foolish) views...
a2	If they reproach the law, there is no enemy like (false) views.
a2+	You who have enjoyedn1 (?)...
a3	s'étant souvenu de cela.
a3	Much distress of the world Having remembered that, (you) have to persist even in non-appearing/deformed (?) (teaching)
a4	First, the (teaching) of the one saying good and doing good... would have to be done by you even if your head would burn (?).
a5	Being... through one's self...
a6	... they will all achieve tranquillity from your law.
a6+	This is thus the fourfold bliss.
b1	Your teaching causes pain to Māra, consolation to gods and men.
b2	Of birth, great, of the earth, without clinging, without entanglement (is your teaching).
b2+	Through your teaching even the teaching of Māra is (overcome).
b3	For the one who knows the taste of your teaching... goes himself as is his wish there where death has no territory.
b4+	There is a partition of the three times of thinking of the meaning of the teaching and of making dear practice.
b5+	This (teaching) of yours... not outside... thus full of virtue, you bull of a sage!
b6	Those who don't make the law their refuge...

Other

a2	[skt:] if [fools] contemn your teaching [tb:] if they blame the law (cf 168) (Peyrot 2013b: 325)
a5+	Freiheit [wtl. das Nach-seinem-eigenen-Selbst-Sein], (das Glück der) [vollkommenen] Erkennt(nis [d.h. der Erleuchtung], die Verehrung deiner Tugenden), Weisheit: all dies - eine erfreuliche Vierheit - wird aus deiner Lehre erreicht. (Schmidt 1974: 231)
b6	Dass sie [scil. die Menschen] nicht zu dieser deiner Lehre, [die] so voll von guten Eigenschaften [ist], Zuflucht nehmen, o du Vorzüglichster [wtl. Stier] unter den Weisen, (was [ist] verderblicher als das?) (Schmidt 1974: 434)

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1	The usual translation for the root yu- is "ripened". However, the Sanskrit parallel text has anvābhuṃkth(ā), which belongs to the root bhuj- "enjoy".

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008	A2
Tamai 2011	C1
Tamai 2011	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 251; TITUS: THT 251

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 151-152; Shackleton Bailey 1951: 181

Translations

Hackstein 1995: b1 (111); Krause 1952: a4 (47), b2 (40); Meunier 2013: a3 (149); Peyrot 2013b: a2 (325); Schmidt 1974: a5 (230f), a5 a6 (231), b6 (434)

Bibliography

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

IDP

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

Krause 1952

Krause, Wolfgang. 1952. Westtocharische Grammatik, Band I. Das Verbum. Heidelberg: Winter.

Meunier 2013

Meunier, Fanny. 2013. “Typologie des locutions en yām- du tokharien.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 123–85.

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

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.

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Göttingen.

Shackleton Bailey 1951

Shackleton Bailey, David Roy. 1951. The Śatapañcāśatka of Mātṛceṭa. Sanskrit Text, Tibetan Translation & Commentary and Chinese Translation. With an Introduction, English Translation and Notes. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.

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.”