THT 2685
| Known as: | THT 2685; Prelim. No. 5850 |
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| Cite this page as: | Adrian Musitz. "THT 2685". 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-tht2685 (accessed 09 Mar. 2026). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Adrian Musitz |
Provenience | |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | late |
| Script: | cursive |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Non-literary |
| Text subgenre: | Account |
| Verse/Prose: | prose |
Object | |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Scroll |
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 | /// – [py]· [r]· /// |
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| a2 | pa ñcwa ri ke wi yna ra kṣi – /// |
| a3 | i kaṃ ñu ne ka pyā re¯ [¯s] |
| a4 | pa ñcwa ri ke wñi ya ra kṣi te lyā ka [¤] |
| a5 | ñweṃ ne ka pyā re¯ ¯s kl· se ·i /// |
| a6 | pa ñcwa ri ke wñi ya ra kṣi te lyā ka [¤] /// |
| a7 | me ñe ra paṃ ññe |
| b1 | ¤ |
Transcription
| a1 | /// (ka)py(ā)r(es) /// |
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| a2 | pañcwarike wiynarakṣi(te) /// |
| a3 | ikäṃ ñune kapyāres /// |
| a4 | pañcwarike wñiyarakṣite lyāka ¤/// |
| a5 | ñweṃne kapyāres kl(e)se (w)i /// |
| a6 | pañcwarike wñiyarakṣite lyāka ¤/// |
| a7 | meñe rapaṃññe |
| b1 | ¤ |
Translation
| a1 | ... to/of the kapyāri... |
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| a2 | The Pañcwarike Wiynarakṣite... |
| a3 | On day twenty nine, ... of/for the kapyāri... |
| a4 | The Pañcwarike Wñiyarakṣite saw it ¤ ... |
| a5 | On the last day of the month, klese of/for the kapyāri: two... |
| a6 | The Pañcwarike Wñiyarakṣite saw it ¤... |
| a7 | The final month. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 2685; TITUS: THT 2685
Edition
Tamai 2007a: №2685; Ching 2010: 235
Bibliography
Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.
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.
