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THT 270

Known as:	THT 270; B 270
Cite this page as:	"THT 270". 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-tht270 (accessed 07 Dec. 2023).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Expedition code:	T III Š 67.17
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Kāvya
Verse/Prose:	verse
Object
Manuscript:	THT 266-272
Leaf number:	(100-80)
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	3

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	/// ·[ñ]· kti po sa· sā [r]ṣṣeṃ wn· lme· – – – – – – [cme]
a2	/// snai ka rstau se ka rtse ṣṣe a k· ·[k]ñ· p[o] wno lmeṃ mpa
a3	/// ñcä ṣṣe vi mā ne saṃ va ra ṣṣe yā ta lñe mā ka rsta yta¯ ¯rñä 30 6
b1	/// saṃ sā ·n· yke po staṃ pa ra [m]· nu ka lpā sta¯ ¯r pi¯ ¯ś cme
b2	/// to¯ ¯t ñi tā koṃ a ra ñ[c]i ṣe me ṣe me
b3	/// ¯k pi¯ ¯ś cme la : ko so¯ – ///

Transcription

a1	/// ·ñ· kti po sa(ṃ)sārṣṣeṃ wn(o)lme(ṃ) – – – – – (:) cme
a2	/// snai kärstau se kärtseṣṣe ak(āl) k ñ(i) po wnolmeṃmpa
a3	/// ñcäṣṣe vimāne saṃvaräṣṣe yātalñe mā karstaytär-ñ 30-6
b1	/// saṃsā(r)n(e) yke-postäṃ param(ā)nu kälpāstär piś cme
b2	/// tot ñi tākoṃ arañci ṣeme ṣeme
b3	/// k piś cmela : koso – ///

Other

a3	Die Fähigkeit der Zurückhaltung im Herzenspalast möge mir nicht abgeschnitten werden. (Schmidt 1974: 208)

Commentary

Remarks

	The leaf number is based on the strophe numbers in this fragment and in THT 271.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011a	C1
Tamai 2011a	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 270; TITUS: THT 270

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 163-164

Translations

Schmidt 1974: a3 (208)

Bibliography

IDP

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

Schmidt 1974

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

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 2011a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. 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.”