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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 06 Oct. 2024).
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.