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THT 3602.c

Known as:THT 3602.c; Mainz 655,5 [Schmidt]; Mainz 655,5a [current]
Cite this page as:"THT 3602.c". 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-tht3602c (accessed 05 Mar. 2026).

Provenience

Main find spot:Unknown
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:classical

Text contents

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

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:4

Images

Transliteration

a1/// – [ñ]· ·t· ·[s]· ·k· – ///
a2/// [m]ra ñä¯ ¯ś o¯ ¯t ce¯ ¯u stā [p]ño – ///
a3/// – ·[v]· ñe¯ ¯m [n]· wa ssu 10 4 ///
b1/// – wme – – : ja [m]bu dv· ///
b2/// [l]yk· nte 10 6 ma kto nto ///
b3/// tau sne nte ña ke cä ///
b4/// – ///

Transcription

a1/// – ñ· ·t· ·s· ·k· – ///
a2/// mrä ñäś ot ceu stā pño – ///
a3/// – ·v· ñem wa ssu 10-4 ///
b1/// – wme – – : jambudv· ///
b2/// lyk· nte 10-6 kto nto ///
b3/// tau sne nte ñake ///
b4/// – ///

Commentary

Parallel texts

*Or 8212.163

Remarks

*The script type is basically standard, but there is still an archaic-shaped 〈śa〉; see Malzahn 2007a: 267.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Malzahn 2007aA5
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 3602; TITUS: THT 3602

Edition

Schmidt 1983; Tamai 2007a: №3602

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.

Schmidt 1983

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1983. “Zum Verhältnis von Sanskritvorlage und tocharischer Übersetzung. Untersucht am Beispiel osttocharischer Stotratexte.” In Sprachen des Buddhismus in Zentralasien. Vorträge des Hamburger Symposions vom 2. Juli bis 5. Juli 1981, edited by Klaus Röhrborn and Wolfgang Veenker, 125–31. Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 16. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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. 2007. http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/tht.htm.

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.