THT 261
| Known as: | THT 261; B 261; THT 2973.a; THT 2973.b |
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| Cite this page as: | "THT 261". 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-tht261 (accessed 07 Dec. 2023). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Qizil Miŋ-Öy |
| Specific find spot: | Rothkuppelraum |
| Expedition code: | T III MQR 88 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW) |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | archaic |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Kāvya |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
| Meter: | M17; M9 |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 252-265 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 5 |
Images
Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | /// ka lle [s]· [pa] ssa kwä /// |
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| a2 | /// ññe sa o stmeṃ lna s̝s̝aṃ kuse mā /// |
| a3 | /// ·[t]· spa kt[ā] [nṣe] yä rpo te ścma ntā ka [nma] s̝[s̝]aṃ /// |
| a4 | /// || a ñcā ls̝a rne yā mu sa /// |
| a5 | /// m· s·· 1 – w·o [c]·e – – /// |
| b1 | /// [k]· [kr]· [p]· /// |
| b2 | /// lm[e](·) s[o] [y]lñ[e] [yä] [nmā] s̝s̝aṃ 3 e ṣ[k]e /// |
| b3 | /// l[m]e : [wsā] sta lau te [la] lñe ṣṣe sa kwa[¯] [¯]śc /// |
| b4 | /// ṅ[k]e [ś]ai ṣṣ· tri śa lle 5 [tau] [ru] /// |
| b5 | /// [y]ä rke [nt]· [m]āṃ twe [:] [6] /// |
Transcription
| Xx | /// kalles(a) pässäkwä /// a2 |
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| Xx | 13σ /// ññesa ostmeṃ |
| Xx | lnäṣṣäṃ kuse mā /// 13σ |
| a3 | /// ·t· spaktānṣe yärpo teśc mantā känmäṣṣäṃ /// |
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| a4 | /// ॥ |
| 1a | añcāl ṣärne ; yāmusa /// 3σ |
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| Xx | a5/// m· s·· 1 – w(r)oc(c)e – – /// |
| Xx | b1/// k(a)kr(au)p(au) /// |
| 3c | b2 |
| 3d | 3σ /// lme· ; soylñe yänmāṣṣäṃ 3 |
| 4a | eṣke /// 7σ |
| 4b | 9σ |
| 4c | b38σ /// lme : |
| 4d | wsāsta laute ; lälñeṣṣe säkwaśc |
| 5a | /// 9σ |
| 5b | 9σ |
| 5c | b49σ |
| 5d | 3σ /// ṅke ; śaiṣṣ(e) triśälle 5 |
| 6a | tau ru /// 7σ |
| 6b | 9σ |
| 6c | b59σ |
| 6d | 4σ /// yärkent· māṃ twe : 6 |
Commentary
Remarks
| THT 261 has been re-published as THT 2973.a-b. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Peyrot 2008b | A1 |
| Tamai 2011a | C14 |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 261, THT 2973; TITUS: THT 261, THT 2973
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 160; Tamai 2007a: №2973
Translations
Thomas 1952: b4 (35)
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2008b. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2007a. “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” Thesaurus indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan collection. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.
Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”
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