THT 263
| Known as: | THT 263; B 263; THT 1433 |
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| Cite this page as: | "THT 263". 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-tht263 (accessed 14 Jan. 2025). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Specific find spot: | Rothkuppelraum |
| Expedition code: | T III MQR 86 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | archaic |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Kāvya |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
| Meter: | 543 (4x) |
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] ru – pra – – || /// |
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| a2 | /// a ñma ntse ka rtse śco ts·· ·[ai] /// |
| a3 | /// ntra la kle ñ[ä] – – /// |
| a4 | /// a knā tsa ño l[yp]o [tse] /// |
| b1 | /// |
| b2 | /// |
| b3 | /// |
| b4 | /// mai ya s· n[au]¯ ¯s̝ ka [ls̝a] /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// karu(ṇa)pra(lāpne) ॥ /// |
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| Xx | a2/// añmäntse kärtseśco ts·· ·ai /// |
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| Xx | a3/// nträ läkle ñä – – /// |
| Xx | a4/// aknātsañ olypotse /// |
| Xx | b1n1 /// b2n1 /// b3n1 /// b4/// maiyas(a) nauṣ kälṣä /// |
Commentary
Remarks
| Lines a5 and b5 are lost. THT 263 has been re-published as THT 1433. |
Philological commentary
| n1 | The lines are abraded. |
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Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Peyrot 2008 | A1 |
| Tamai 2011 | C1 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 263, THT 1433; TITUS: THT 263, THT 1433
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 161; Tamai 2007a: №1433
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. 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. 2007. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.
Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.
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.
