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THT 3979

Known as:THT 3979; Prelim. No. 314
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Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:Š 96
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

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

Images

Transliteration

a1/// – (–) ske ya ·l· – – – (–) –
a2/// – a ntā kcaṃ • 1 bā hu taṃ cai va ge nt·
a3/// – – – kāṃ ta thā • ā paṃ su tu ri kaṃ e mte
a4/// 20 7
b1/// [b]· d[dh]a s[e] na bha d· nta ā cā rya dha rma seṃ na a yaṃ ṣā rmna rū
b2/// – rśśaṃ ri yaṃ ywā rcka – ña k[t]a śi lā
b3/// ha – ·ṃ – ///

Transcription

a1/// – – ske ya ·l· – – – – –
a2/// – a ntā kcaṃ • 1 bāhu taṃ caiva ge nt·
a3/// – – – kāṃ tathāā paṃ su tu ri kaṃ emte
a4/// 20-7
b1/// ddha sena bha nta ācārya dharmaseṃna ayaṃ ṣā rmna
b2/// – rśśaṃ riyaṃ ywārckaña kta śi
b3/// ha·ṃ – ///

References

Online access

IDP: THT 3979; TITUS: THT 3979

Edition

Tamai 2007a: №3979

Bibliography

IDP

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

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 “A preliminary edition of unpublished texts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”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.

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.