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THT 342

Known as:THT 342; THT 1585.a; B 342
Cite this page as:"THT 342". 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-tht342 (accessed 07 Dec. 2024).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:T III MQR, T III MQ 44.6
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Add. linguistic characteristics:classical
Script:archaic

Text contents

Title of the work:Pūrṇikā-Jātaka
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:prose; verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 338-344
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:3=7

Images

Transliteration

a1/// pū dñä kte ntse kre ñce pī pa ///
a2/// mā lne pū rnni ka dṛ ṣṭā ntaka s·e ///
a3/// [a] l(·)e ·āṃ pā ṣa [tū] [s]ā ///
b5///
b6/// nts· pe lai kne wro tse spe ltke ///
b7/// wä [n]·e¯ – no nwau yä npū dña kte ywau ///

Transcription

a1/// pūdñäktentse kreñcepī ///
a2/// mālne pūrnnikadṛṣṭānt{†ä} ṣkäs(t)e ///
a3/// al·e ·āṃ pāṣa tūsā ///
b5///
b6/// nts· pelaikne wrotse speltke ///
b7/// wän·eno nwau yän pūdñakte ywau ///

Commentary

Remarks

*Edited as no. 342 in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 223-224, the fragment now has the pressmark THT 1585.a. On IDP, recto and verso are reversed. This mansucript is basically written in the common archaic script type, but it already shows standard-shaped signs beside the old ones (e.g., open-shaped 〈ma〉 beside closed-shaped); cf. Malzahn 2007a: 264.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008A1
Malzahn 2007aA5
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 342, THT 1585a; TITUS: THT 342

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 223-224

Bibliography

IDP

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

Malzahn 2007a

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007a. “The most archaic manuscripts of Tocharian B and the varieties of the Tocharian B language.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 255–97. Heidelberg: Winter.

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

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.