THT 356.b

Known as:	THT 356.b; Prelim. no. 524; pencil no. 2368
Cite this page as:	Melanie Malzahn. "THT 356.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-tht365b (accessed 17 Jan. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Melanie Malzahn
Date of online publication:	2014-07-31
Provenience
Main find spot:	Murtuk
Expedition code:	T III M 135
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Supriyāvadāna
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Object
Manuscript:	THT 355-356
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	4+

Images

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Transliteration

a1	/// – ///
a2	/// [l]m(·) ṣṣeṃ yu k(·) ///
a3	/// d[ra] ka lpi keṃ bo dhi [s](·) ///
a4	///
b1	///
b2	/// a ñm(·) ntse : c[e]ṃ¯ ¯ts su ///
b3	/// [r]ṣṣeṃ ra no pi ///

Transcription

a1	/// – ///
a2	/// (yśe)lm(e)ṣṣeṃ yuk(ṣäṃ) ///
a3	n1 /// (bha)drakalpikeṃ bodhis(ātveṃ) ///
a4	///
b1	///
b2	/// añm(a)ntse : ceṃts su ///
b3	/// °rṣṣeṃ rano pi° ///

Translation

a2	... overcomes (?) the ... pertaining to desire ...
a3	... the Bodhisattvas of the present age ...
b2	... of the self. From that he ...

Commentary

Remarks

*	Small fragment from the middle of a leaf. Partly edited in Sieg and Siegling 1953: 233 sub no. 356.

Philological commentary

n1	Restoration according to Sieg and Siegling 1953: 233, note 6 with ref. to Mahāvyutp. 23.82.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011	C1
Tamai 2011	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 356b

other

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 233

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.