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THT 398

Known as:THT 398; B 398; Bleistiftnummer 4994
Cite this page as:"THT 398". 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-tht398 (accessed 07 Feb. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kumtura
Expedition code:T III Qu 4
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:late
Script:classical

Text contents

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

Object

Manuscript:THT 398-399
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

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Transliteration

a1/// [ṅk]· re ṣu ktma ne pi śi ltse m[pa] ///
a2/// s· ra tna śi khi || wa ce a ///
a3/// tsai – [m]ā po w[ä] ///
a4/// ai· ·[i] ///
a5///
a6///
b1///
b2///
b3/// vyā [ka] [r]i ///
b4/// ke ··s· ·ka rṣke ///
b5/// ktaṃ ñe pe rne¯ ¯ś pa ls[kw]e ///
b6/// pa lsk[w]e rsa tai po yśiṃ [ñ]e ///

Transcription

a1/// ṅk· re ṣuktmane piś iltsempa ///
a2/// ratnaśikhiwace a ///
a3/// tsai po ///
a4/// ai··i ///
a5///
a6///
b1///
b2///
b3/// vyākari ///
b4/// ke ··s· (ta)karṣke ///
b5/// ktäṃñe perneś palskw e ///
b6/// palskw ersatai poyśiṃñe ///

Commentary

Remarks

*In one frame with THT 399.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008L
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 398; TITUS: THT 398

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 264-265

Bibliography

IDP

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

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.