THT 397
| Known as: | THT 397; B 397; THT 1608.a; Prelim. No. 534 |
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| Cite this page as: | "THT 397". 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-tht397 (accessed 27 Mar. 2025). |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Kizil Ming-öy |
| Expedition code: | T III MQ 17.37 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Passage: | Urbilvākāśyapa |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Unknown |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 396-397 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 5 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// [w]· s̝s̝aṃ mā ga [dh]· – – – ·t· e re /// |
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| a2 | /// te ṣṣe a mā k· – – ¯s̝ ne sa lye kre [nt]· /// |
| a3 | /// s̝s̝a[ṃ] || ta ne wa l· – – – – – sta[¯] [¯]r ñi /// |
| a4 | /// ·e sa yo – – ne ra mn[o] rṣā keṃ /// |
| b1 | /// |
| b2 | /// kā re – – – mt· /// |
| b3 | /// ṣṣī mn[e] s[e] – – – – mā – wa¯ ¯t [u] – [lv]· /// |
| b4 | /// [pre] ks̝aṃ || pa ṇḍu rā – [ññ]· n· || kuse ly· lyko rme· /// |
| b5 | /// || u rbi lva k· – – – s̝[s̝]aṃ || /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// w(e)ṣṣäṃ māgadh· – – – ·t· ere /// |
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| a2 | /// teṣṣe amāk· – – ṣ nesalye krent· /// |
| a3 | /// ṣṣäṃ ॥ tane wal· – – – – – stär ñi /// |
| a4 | /// ·esa yo – – ne ram no rṣākeṃ /// |
| b1 | /// |
| b2 | /// kāre – – – mt· /// |
| b3 | /// ṣṣīmne se – – – – mā – wat u(rbi) lv(a) /// |
| b4 | /// prekṣäṃ ॥ paṇḍurā(ṅkä)ññ(e)n(e) ॥ kuse ly(e)lykorme(ṃ) /// |
| b5 | /// ॥ urbilvak(āśyape) (we)ṣṣäṃ ॥ /// |
Commentary
Remarks
| The original of this fragment was long registered as "missing". The original was re-identified under the new press mark THT 1608.a by Ilya Itkin (p.c. 16 May 2016). The main press mark will now again be THT 397. |
References
Online access
IDP: THT 397, THT 1608a; TITUS: THT 397, THT 1608
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 264; Tamai 2007a: №1608
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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.
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.
