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THT 304

Known as:	THT 304; B 304; THT 1503.b
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Provenience
Main find spot:	Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Expedition code:	T III MQR 102
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB; Sanskrit
Linguistic stage:	archaic
Script:	archaic
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānavarga
Passage:	1.20-25
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	verse
Meter:	M18
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

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	/// (–) [tr](·) m(·) [s]t(·) [dha] naṃ me st(·) [ty]e ///
a2	/// ·ñ· n· – – – – – (–) ne [sa]ṃ [n][kā] t[e] ksa a knā [tsa] ///
a3	/// – [ṇ]i na ra nā ri śa [t]ā ni [ca] [bho] gaṃ vai sa mu dā nī – ///
a4	/// – w[ṣ]e ma ne [ta] ntne ya neṃ sru ka lle ntse 20-1 || sa – ///
a5	/// – • po nau ta lyi ā ke ka krau pa s̝a ·o ·o ///
b1	/// ·[t]· [h]· jī vi ta¯ ¯m ya thā ka rmma g(·) [m](·) (·)[y]· ///
b2	/// śa ktā lye mpa ke ka mo s̝a 20 3 || na ra kaṃ pā pa ///
b3	/// [y](·) mi ntse yā m[o] ṣe pi [yä] rpo ntse yñä kteṃ ymi – ///
b4	/// [na] [pa] (– – –) (·)i (–) [ra] mpra vi śya na vi dya te sa [ḥ] pṛ ///
b5	/// ·[o] rsa mā ne [saṃ] su ke ntsa ///
b6	/// – ///

Transcription

	(pu)tr(o) m(e) st(i) dhanaṃ me st(ī) ty e(vaṃ) (bālo) (vihanyate)

Xx	/// ·ñ· n· – – – – – – nesäṃn kā
Xx	te ksa aknā;tsa /// 13σ

	(sahasrā)ṇi naranāriśatāni ca bhogaṃ vai samudānī –

21d	6σ /// (kre)w;{ṣ/p}emane tänt;ne yaneṃ ; srukallentse 20-1

	॥ sa – ///
a5	/// – • po nautalyi āke kakraupaṣä ·o ·o ///
b1	///

	(maraṇān)t(aṃ) h(i) jīvitam yathākarmma g(a)m(iṣ)y(anti) (puṇyapāpaphalopagāḥ)

23d	8σ /// śäk;tālyempa ; kekämoṣä 20-3

	॥

	narakaṃ pāpa

Xx	(nraine) (yolo) ; y(ā)mintse ; yāmoṣepi ; yärpontse ; yñäkteṃ ymi(ye)

	na pa(rvatānāṃ) (v)i(va)ram praviśya na vidyate saḥ pṛ(thivīpradeśaḥ)

Xx	9σ /// ·orsa ; mā nesäṃ ; su kentsa (ike) (:)

References

Online access

IDP: THT 304, THT 1503b; TITUS: THT 304, THT 1503

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 192-193; Tamai 2007a: №1503

Translations

Thomas 1969d: a4 (298); Thomas 1983a: a4 (18)

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 2007a

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

Thomas 1969d

Thomas, Werner. 1969d. “Zur tocharischen Wiedergabe der Sanskrit-Verba des Udānavarga.” Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung 83: 290–322.

Thomas 1983a

Thomas, Werner. 1983a. Der tocharische Obliquus im Sinne eines Akkusativs der Richtung. Abhandlungen d. Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse 6. Mainz: Verlag d. Akad. d. Wissenschaften und d. Literatur.

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.”