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THT 277

Known as:	THT 277; B 277; Bleistiftnummer 2647
Cite this page as:	Adrian Musitz (translation). "THT 277". 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-tht277 (accessed 22 Jan. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Adrian Musitz (translation)
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil Ming-öy
Specific find spot:	Rothkuppelraum
Expedition code:	T III MQR 69
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Kāvya
Verse/Prose:	verse
Meter:	43434 (4x)
Object
Manuscript:	THT 276-278
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	3

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Transliteration

lf	6
a1	t[au] pe sa /// /// ·ñ· [p]· yyo ra rś[e] rksa lā bha sa (–)
a2	rṣṣe mā t[r]e ṅ[k]a /// /// ṣa ñśā mna wro ccā kā lksa me ksi (–)
a3	ṅku śai ṣṣe tse ya [p]·· /// /// k[l]e śa nma ṣṣai we ta ne ma ṅko rñe [s]·
b1	ñe mai tsī mā ṣcwī ai kne /// /// [k]·¯ ¯ś śau la tse mā ma rse lle 10 [4] (–)
b2	pu śa ma ṣṣe ke s(·)e ·o /// /// kre : ṣaṃ¯ ¯ñ[ä] pa lskau ntse tse re kwa ke ·[e]
b3	ā ñme ka rsa /// /// l·ā tsi wa rks̝la ta ṅktsi kle śa nma ///

Transcription

lf

6

Xx	a1 taupesa ///
13d	/// ·ñ· p·yyo rar ; śerksan1 lābha;sa(tkā)a2rṣṣe ; mā treṅka /// 1σ
14b	/// ṣañ śāmna wrocc= ; ākālksa ; meksi (e)a3ṅku ; śaiṣṣetse ; yap·· /// 3σ ///
14c	kleśanmaṣṣai ; wetane ; mäṅkorñes(a) ; b1 ñem aitsī ; mā ṣ cwī aikne
14d	/// 10σ /// k·ś ; śaulatse ; mā märselle 10-4
15a	(yai)b2pu śama;ṣṣe kes·e ·o /// 9σ /// kre :
15b	ṣaṃñ pälskauntse ; tserekwa ; ke(t)e b3 āñme ; karsa /// 5σ
Xx	5σ /// l(k)ātsi ; warkṣlä taṅktsi ; kleśanma ; /// 4σ

Translation

a1	... with a heap...
a1+	... through the string/text of the Lābhasatkāra... not clinging...
a2+	... his own people, having seized meksi with a great wish, ... (country ?) of the world...
a3+	In the battle with the Kleśas, it is not his duty to give (his?) name out of deprivation (?).
b1	... of life... is not to be forgotten.
b1+	Having entered... of tranquillity...
b2+	Whose wish it is to know the follies of his own mind, ... to experience power, to stop the Kleśas...

Commentary

Remarks

*	The leaf number is on the recto!

Philological commentary

n1	Could śerksa be a calque of skr. grantha "binding" but also "book, text"?

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011	L2
Tamai 2011	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 277; TITUS: THT 277

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 168-169

Bibliography

IDP

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

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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.