THT 31
| Known as: | THT 31; B 31 |
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| Cite this page as: | Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 31". 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-tht31 (accessed 18 Apr. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Hannes A. Fellner |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 87.2 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Udānālaṅkāra |
| Passage: | Book 13 (Satkāravarga), part 1, strophes 36-46. |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Doctrine |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
| Meter: | 53436 (2x), 4545 (1x), 436 (1x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | Udānālaṅkāra B |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 8 |
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
| lf | 2 100 |
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| a1 | [p]· ·t· – – – – ·ñ· kt· m· n[ā¯] [¯k] w· [ña] sū /// /// [m]r· ·n· śā¯ ¯r • a llo ṅkna ṅk[e] [ś]· [nta] – |
| a2 | yya na e ntwe kka ṅke ya mī tra ṣpa mā¯ ¯t • skwa ssu ne sau pa plā ntau ye¯ ¯s ta [llā]¯ ¯ñcä la kle sso¯ ¯ñcä 30 6 ma¯ ¯nt swa pā s̝s̝a tte ka lpau ca śwā tsi yo ktsi a la nmeṃ ṣa ñka kā tsa lkā nta¯ ¯r • kuse yi kne |
| a3 | ri ta¯ ¯ñä so so yo¯ ¯s̝ weṃ ṣye tsai ra¯ ¯mt ko tai sa ya rke sa wi kṣe ñca¯ ¯ñä : a bhi jñä nta dhya na nma e ro¯ ¯s̝ eṃ ṣke ywā rco tsa lpo¯ ¯s̝ saṃ sā rmeṃ : ceṃ a ppa mā¯ ¯t yā mṣye nta¯ ¯r śwā tsi yo ktsi klpo rsa |
| a4 | 30 7 ce¯ ¯u wä ntre po yśi lye lyko rmeṃ we ña ta rya ślo ka nma ṣa mā ññe ntsa yā to¯ ¯ś • to tkā¯ ¯ts ai ku kwri tā kaṃ pa pā sṣo rñe nta ne no a nai śai wa wlā wau : ai śau myi ce¯ ¯u pa |
| a5 | llā nta¯ ¯r kre nto ā streṃ śau¯ ¯l śa ye ñcai wno lme : snai lai wo ṣpa ne ce tne ṣe me ślo ka kṣā me 30 8 wa ce ślo¯ ¯k we ña pu dñä kte kre ntaṃ lkā ṣṣi e rka tte ce tsya rke tsa mtsi |
| a6 | śco : ta ryā ai śa mñe tā ko¯ ¯yä kwri ṣa mā ne tne pu tko wä wi kṣe ñca ya rke sa : sru ka lñe kau ṣe ñca snai tsna mñe to tkā ntsai ku te ma¯ ¯nt ka rsau rmeṃ : a ppa mā¯ ¯t ya ma ske nta¯ ¯r mā yśe |
| a7 | ñca¯ ¯ñä a knā tsa¯ ¯ñä 30 9 trī ce ślo¯ ¯k we ña kwri ta ne śwā tsi ntse śle yo ktsi ntse klpau ca tā kaṃ wno lme : yo lo wä ntre ra kwri tā kaṃ sū ce¯ ¯ts mske ta¯ ¯r ya rka sa toṃ we ña ślo ka nma : te śā rsa |
| a8 | me pu dnä ktā nai śai mā ra nwai ku ka rsau ñya ka lṣle : pa pā ṣṣu ṣe¯ ¯k wa wā wlau a lo ka lymi ynū ca 40 ta ryai śa mñe nta tā kaṃ cwi nau ṣa ñña na cme la kuse ca mpne pya¯ ¯cä ka la tsi : ñä kcye |
| b1 | pi lkwa streṃ e rṣtra s̝pa nau ta s̝s̝aṃ po tsna mñe nta toṃ ta ryai śa mñe nta : e ru ka tā kaṃ po yśi ntsā ka lṣle trai vi dye ñe¯ ¯m a rhā nte mske ta r • ceṃ ksa yā mta¯ ¯r a ppa mā¯ ¯t wro cce lu pṣta¯ ¯r nrai sa |
| b2 | 40-1 kuse no sū tā kaṃ a pā ṣtte ka llaṃ śwā tsi a la nmeṃ ce co mpa kca ṣa rmtsa : tu meṃ pu tko s̝aṃ mai ma ñceṃ a ppa mā¯ ¯t sū ya ma sta¯ ¯r eṃ ṣkā rhā nteṃ wro cceṃ : ka ttā keṃ ksa yaṃ lkā tsi ṣe¯ ¯k |
| b3 | ṣe¯ ¯k tā rkaṃ spe lke ṣa mā ñña ttsai¯ ¯k pa¯ ¯st • cwi cai ya rke ya ma skeṃ swa lye ṅkaṃ mī yä s̝s̝aṃ 40 2 ce cme lṣe ya rke pe ti sa tri ke ta rra¯ ¯mt a knā tsa o nwa ññe śau¯ ¯l pa kta¯ ¯r • |
| b4 | wai ke wa ṣe s̝pa ka sko rwa¯ ¯t we ntsi klyi nne po we s̝s̝aṃ śwā tsi ntse pe rne sa : ma ñi ññe ra¯ ¯mt ka ttā ke¯ ¯ts yāṃ s̝aṃ ka ṣṣī ntso lypo¯ ¯s̝ pa lsko ce¯ ¯ts pā s̝ta¯ ¯r • |
| b5 | yā mtra lye ṅkaṃ a ppa mā¯ ¯t yaṃ po staṃ nrai nta ne 40 3 ṣeṃ ywā rco stmeṃ ltwe¯ ¯s̝ pu dñä kte¯ ¯ś snai ce ta llā nti ke meṃ ṣa mā ni ta tā ka¯ ¯s̝ • cai ṣa mā ññe ntse mai |
| b6 | yya ne a klyi lñe ntse¯ ¯s̝ pe rne sa ya rkā laṃ meṃ klpā ṣyeṃ : ta rko ṣā rte a llo ṅkna cme la tri wo¯ ¯s̝ a ttsai¯ ¯k ka ttā keṃ mpe ṣe : riṃ ne kuṣaiṃ ne o stwa ne ṣe¯ ¯k ye yeṃ ceṃ lka tsi |
| b7 | 40 4 lkā ṣyeṃ mā ttsai¯ ¯k tu ṣa mā ni wa syau so s̝aṃ sa ṅghā ṭi ṣe mi ysa lye rṣye nta¯ ¯r • ta nā pa te ntsa o stwa sa e kñi nta sa e ntse ño ma nta ñye nta¯ ¯r ṣe mi : ke te pka nte |
| b8 | yā m[y]eṃ ka l·au ·e [c]ai ce¯ ¯ts sa ñi ts[m]e [nta]¯ ¯r a r[tsa] (–) auṃ [:] [eṃ] ·[ā] /// /// [l]ai [ñ]e – [5] ·e – – – – – [lā] ṣ·aṃ [a] lyai kke kmo¯ ¯s̝ ñyā tse [n]e ·e |
Transcription
| lf | 2-100 |
Translation
| a1 | ... [35d] ... the Buddha, he said a parable ... |
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| a1+ | However, other powers of (humans) he himself may, after all, mistreat. |
| a2 | [36d] |
| a2 | “I am happy [and] glad, you [are] miserable ones, unhappy ones”, thus he who has not kept up [moral conduct thinks] as one receiving eating and drinking from elsewhere, if they only look on their own belly. |
| a2+ | Those who, longing for the [right] way, are satisfied and like from a sewer keep away from veneration, who have evoked the knowledge and the meditations [and] are half freed from the Saṃsāra, those they mistreat as a consequence of obtaining eating and drinking. |
| a4 | [37d] |
| a4 | With regard to this fact the Omniscient spoke three strophes for the benefit of monkhood: If he is known by few, but carefully disciplined in the [moral] conducts, the sages praise him as a being living a good, pure life, without lassitude or sleep. |
| a5 | [38d] |
| a5 | This he proclaimed to them here as a first strophe. |
| a5+ | The second strophe the Buddha spoke – he saw the good ones [were] angry – to increase their veneration: |
| a6 | If there should be here a monk having the threefold knowledge, [therefore] keeping away, separated from veneration, destroying death [and] free from [evil] influences since they know that he is known only by few, they mistreat him ignorant fools. |
| a7 | -[39d] |
| a7 | The third strophe he spoke: If a being here should be an acquirer of eating and drinking, even if it be of bad character, it is [still held] in veneration by them. Such strophes he spoke, |
| a7+ | [and] this he made them know, the Buddha: |
| a8 | Truly, not the one who is famous nor the one who is known [is] my pupil. The [moral] conduct he must have kept up, always disciplined, going directed towards a single goal, [40d] [and] the threefold knowledges he must have, [i.e. he must be one], who can remember [his] earlier births, the divine one who causes clear sight, and makes all [evil] influences disappear; only if he has evoked such threefold knowledges, he is the pupil of the Omniscient, the Arhat Traividya [“having the threefold knowledge”] by name. |
| b1+ | If someone should mistreat this one, he will be thrown into a great hell. |
| b2 | [41d] |
| b2 | For if the one, who does not behave morally, receives eating from elsewhere, [and thus] mistreats the worthy ones, who for this or another reason are separated from it, all the way to the great Arhats. |
| b2+ | If one goes forever to see the great householders, he will have to give up the fervor of monks. |
| b3 | [42d] |
| b3 | Him these [householders] venerate, [but] he harms the other [monk]s. By the veneration and flattery of this existence the foolish one is, as it were, confused [and] trusts that life is immortal. |
| b4 | And if he had to speak a lie and the untruth or gossip, for the sake of food he says anything; he does slave service, as it were, for the householders; but if, more than for the teacher, he cares for these ones’ thinking [and] |
| b5 | [43d] |
| b5 | mistreats the others, he will afterwards go into the hells. These ones who [only] went half from the house to the Buddha from a poor, miserable condition had become monks. |
| b5+ | These achieved, by the power of monkhood and for the sake of [their] scholarship, veneration from elsewhere, |
| b6 | [but] indifferent to the other births, mingling only with householders, always went to the towns, villages and houses, to see these. |
| b7 | [44d] |
| b7 | Monks of this kind did not look at those who had worn the Saṃghāṭī [“a monk's robe”]. Some [of them] evoked discord; some were angry out of envy for benefactors, houses and possessions. |
| b7+ | These - the hindrance of whom they would have to make at the acquisition [of food and drink] - are their enemies [thinking]: |
| b8 | [45d] |
| b8 | “They increase [in number] every day” ... malice. ... is sick, others have come in distress. |
Other
| a2 | ... [wenn] sie nur auf den eigenen Bauch sehen. (Schmidt 1974: 325) |
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| a4 | if he is [someone who] knows little (Peyrot 2013b: 323) |
| a6+ | Wenn hier ein Mönch das dreifache Wissen haben sollte, [daher] abgesondert bei Verehrung sich fernhaltend, den Tod zerschmetternd [und] von [sündigen] Einflüssen frei, so machen ihn [doch] die unwissenden Toren verächtlich, da sie wissen: "[Er ist nur] von wenigen gekannt." (Schmidt 1974: 462-3) |
| a7 | If a being is obtaining food and drink here, even if he is of bad nature, it is [worthy of] reverence for them. (Peyrot 2013b: 314) |
| a7+ | This the Buddha let them know clearly: «Not even the famous and the [well] known is my pupil [40c], [but who] practices moral behaviour, [is] always self-controlled, [and is] going to only one goal [40d], who may have the threefold knowledge, who can recall [his] former births [41a], calls forth a divine pure view, [and] lets disappear [bad] influences. Only if he has called forth the threefold knowledge is he a pupil of the Buddha and becomes an arhat called “traividya” [41c]. If one treats him badly, one is besmirched with great hell [41d]. But if he who does not practice moral behaviour obtains food from elsewhere, he treats badly excellent ones that are excluded from it for this or that reason, including the great arhats [42b]. If someone always and always goes to see the householders, [and] really lets go off the monastic zeal, [42c] him they honour, [but] he causes damage to others [42d]. Through the honour of this [re]birth the fool is as if confused [and] considers life immortal [43a]. If he has to utter a lie, harsh speech, or senseless talk, for the glory of food he says everything [43b]. He does as if servant’s work for the householder, and if he guards their thought more than the teacher’s, and treats others badly, he goes to the hells afterwards.» (cf : ii, 52–53) (Peyrot 2013b: 681) |
| a8+ | Fürwahr, nicht der Gekannte [und] Berühmte [wtl. der Gerußte] [ist] mein Schüler. Die [sittliche Haltung] muss er bewahrt haben, stets gezügelt nur auf ein Ziel gerichtet gehend, [und] das dreifache Wissen muss er haben, [d.h. einer sein], der sich [seiner] früheren Geburten erinnern kann, den göttlichen, klaren Blick hervorruft und alle [sündigen] Einflüsse schwinden macht. (Schmidt 1974: 322) |
| b1 | Wenn diesen [scil. den Traividya genannten Arhat] einer verächtlich macht, wird er in die große Hölle geworfen. (Schmidt 1974: 212) |
| b1 | [Wenn] diesen[scil. den Traividya] einer verächtlich macht, so wird er in die große Hölle geworfen. (Schmidt 1974: 463) |
| b3 | Durch die Verehrung [und] Schmeichelei dieser Existenz ist der Törichte förmlich verwirrt [und] hält das Leben für unsterblich. (Schmidt 1974: 156) |
| b3 | Durch die Verehrung [und] Schmeichelei dieser Existenz ist der Törichte förmlich verwirrt [und] vertraut auf ein ewiges Leben. (Schmidt 1974: 174) |
| b4+ | Er [scil. der Törichte] wird aber, [wenn] er mehr als auf den Lehrer auf das Denken dieser achtet [und] die anderen verächtlich macht, hinterher in die Höllen gehen. (Schmidt 1974: 406) |
| b7 | Einige [von ihnen] riefen Zwietracht hervor [oder: riefen bei sich Neid hervor], einige zeigten böse Gesinnung aus Neid auf die Gabenherren, die Häuser [und] Besitztümer. (Schmidt 1974: 334-5) |
| b7 | Es sahen solcher Art Mönche gar nicht auf die, welche das Saṃghāṭī-Gewand angezogen hatten. Einige [von ihnen] riefen Zwietracht hervor, einige zeigten böse Gesinnung aus Neid auf die Gabenherren, die Häuser und Besitztümer. (Schmidt 1974: 165) |
Commentary
Parallel texts
| Uv 13.12-13.14, THT 32 |
Philological commentary
| Contains strophes 36-46 of the first part of the Satkāravarga (XIII) in a 21,21,18,13-syllable-metre (rhythm: ab: 8/7/6, c: 9/9 or 4/5/4/5, d: 7/6). Due to damage at the top edge the first recto and last verso lines are mostly lost. Contains translation of Uv 13.12-13.14. | |
| n1 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 67 fn. 3 the reading aṣpamāt should be corrected to aṣpamāt in the transcription. |
| n2 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 67 fn. 6 the reading kärsaurmeṃ should be corrected to kärsormeṃ in the transcription. |
| n3 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 67 fn. 7 the reading yarkasa should be corrected to yarkesa in the transcription. |
| n4 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 67 fn. 8 wawāwlau is a scribal error for wawlāwau. |
| n6 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 68 fn. 8 lkatsi should be corrected to lkātsi in the transcription. |
| n7 | Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 68 fn. 2. |
Remarks
| The original manuscript is missing, but was an almost complete leaf, slightly more damaged at the top edge. On the left edge of the verso side the leaf number (200, corrected from 190) could be read. |
Linguistic commentary
| n5 | kuṣaiṃne for kwaṣaine. |
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References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 52-53; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 67-68 notes 198-200
Translations
Carling 2000: a2 a3 (322), b1 (143), b1=32a4 (142), b1=32a4 (72), b2 (323), b5 (234), b6 (164), b7 (234), b8 (240); Hackstein 1995: a2 (250), a3 (47), a5 a6 (137), a6 (54, 133), b1 (47), b4 (174, 200), b7 (47), b8 (136, 249); Krause 1952: a2 (45), a6 (32); Meunier 2013: a6 a7 (160), b1 (160), b3 (163, 164), b7 b8 (169); Peyrot 2013b: a4 (323), a7 (314), a7 a8 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 (681); Schmidt 1974: a2 (325), a6 a7 (462f), a6 a7 (462-3), a8 b1 (332), a8 b1 (322), b1 (212), b1 (463), b1=B32a4 (463), b3 (156, 174), b3 (156), b3 (174), b4 b5 (406), b7 (165, 334f), b7 (334-5), b7 (165); Sieg and Siegling 1949: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b8 (II, 51-53); Sieg and Siegling 1983: a2 (198), a5 (199), a8 (200), b2 (200); Thomas 1952: b1 (48); Thomas 1954: a2 (759), a3 (759), a5 a6 (753), a7 (760), b2 b3 (714), b4 (730), b6 (714); Thomas 1957: a2 a3 (291), a4 (167), a5 (47, 167), a7 (167), a7 a8 (169), b5 b6 (57), b6 b7 (68), b8 (259); Thomas 1958a: b4 b5 (144); Thomas 1960a: a3 (202); Thomas 1967a: b1 (68); Thomas 1967c: b4=B32a6 (167), b5 b6 (175); Thomas 1968: a2 a3 (210), a7 (198), b3 (203); Thomas 1970: a6 (268), a8 b1 (272); Thomas 1972: a5 (439), a7 (442), b3 (462), b4 (434), b6 (459); Thomas 1979b: a5 (25), a6 (30), a7 (16); Thomas 1979d: a7 (156); Thomas 1983: b6 (25); Thomas 1986: a5 (139); Thomas 1997: b3 (86), b4=B32a6 (84)
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