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THT 303.b

Known as:THT 303.b; THT 303; B 303; Bleistiftnummer 2415
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot. "THT 303.b". 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-tht303b (accessed 20 Jun. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Michaël Peyrot

Provenience

Main find spot:Murtuk
Expedition code:T III M 145
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Udānavarga
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 299-303
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī

Images

Transliteration

a1/// a śe ñcai y·· – ///
a2/// – [li] – ///
b3/// [n]· ·[k]· ///
b4/// śau mo ṣṣe [ā] ///

Transcription

a1/// aśeñcai y·· – ///
a2/// – li – ///
b3/// ·k· ///
b4/// śaumoṣṣe ā ///

Commentary

Remarks

*In one frame with THT 301, THT 303.a, THT 303.c and THT 303.d. Lines a3-4 and b1-2 are lost. Lines a1 and b4 were by Sieg and Siegling 1953: 192 cited as "Nr. 303 Frgm. d." and "Nr. 303 Frgm. e.", respectively (THT 303).

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011C1
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 303b; TITUS: THT 303

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 192

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.