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THT 399

Known as:THT 399; B 399; Bleistiftnummer 4994
Cite this page as:"THT 399". 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-tht399 (accessed 29 Nov. 2023).

Provenience

Main find spot:Qumtura
Specific find spot:Found 10.02.1906
Expedition code:T III Qu 5
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)

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

Object

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

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Transliteration

a1/// – śi ltse mpa m[ā] ///
a2/// tma ne tsa ṅkā – ///
a3/// – khyai ne śa¯ ¯k tma n· ///
a4/// ṣka¯ ¯s pā ra mī ta – [n]au ///
b2///
b3/// ¯ś yä rpo nt·[¯] [¯]k ///
b4/// lpa vyā ka ri¯ ¯t p· ///
b5/// ska lñe sa ///
b6/// ·[ā] lcce tu ñi po ///

Transcription

a1 /// (pi)ś iltsempa mā ///
a2 /// tmane tsäṅkā – ///
a3 /// (saṃ)khyaine śak tman(e) ///
a4 /// ṣkas pāramītä(nta) nau ///
b2 ///
b3 /// ś yärpont· k ///
b4 /// lpa vyākarit p· ///
b5 /// skalñesa ///
b6 /// ·ālcce tu ñi po ///

Commentary

Remarks

In one frame with THT 398.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008b L
Tamai 2011a C1
Tamai 2011a C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 399; TITUS: THT 399

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 265-266

Bibliography

IDP

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

Peyrot 2008b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008b. 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 2011a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. 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.”