THT 4

Known as:	THT 4; B 4; Bleistiftnummer 3322
Cite this page as:	Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 4". 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-tht4 (accessed 19 May 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Hannes A. Fellner
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shorchuk
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 69.42
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānālaṅkāra
Passage:	Book 1 (Anityavarga), part 2, strophes 25c-35b
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	verse
Meter:	4343 (4x)
Object
Manuscript:	Udānālaṅkāra C
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	8

Transliteration

a1	/// rwaṃ¯ ¯ts tsre lñe ā ke po sta nmeṃ : to ///
a2	/// : te ki ktsai tsñe ke¯ ¯s yo ko toṃ ñya ///
a3	/// lñe ste sa mpau ca 20 6 ṣe me pre [ke] ///
a4	/// ·t· a ka lṣle kā¯ ¯ś kau ///
a5	/// ·[ñ]· kte ne ta ṅwa sū : ta ry· ///
a6	/// [s]w· śrā ddhe sru ka ntweṃ nrai ne mpe lye te mtsa te ///
a7	/// ·s· te : a lle kno ksa a rhā nte ṣā llā ntse ṣṣe ///
a8	/// ·e tsa ṅkau wa : o¯ ¯t toṃ [we] – ślo ka nma ///
b1	/// ya neṃ ya rp· nrai nts· – – sa 30 ///
b2	/// [t]sn· mñe : yā mo rntso ko mā na kṣ[ta]¯ ¯r yā mo ///
b3	/// ne je ta vaṃ ne ma skī ta¯ ¯r • śrā va sti ne ///
b4	/// ne ma ske ñca¯ ¯ñä śtwe r[ṣa] ///
b5	/// [¯][śä] e ro¯ ¯s̝ ka ma rti ki [r]· – ///
b6	/// śa sru ka lñe 30 3 wa te lya ma keṃ ///
b7	/// rṣle ntse tro ṅkne lya mo mpa lsko ññe : ///
b8	/// sta a rā me : po cai mai ta¯ ¯r nke lñe ///

25b	a1///
25c	(po) (larona) (wänta)rwaṃts ; tsrelñe āke postanmeṃ :
26a	to 13σ /// a2n1 /// 14σ :
26b	teki ktsaitsñe kes yoko ; toṃ ñya(tsenta) 3σ
26d	/// a3n2 /// 7σ ; (sruka)lñe ste sampauca 20-6
27c	ṣeme preke 10σ /// a4n3 /// ·t· akalṣle kāś kau ///
28a	a5n4 /// 7σ ; (pud)ñ(ä)ktene täṅwasū :
28d	tary(a) 12σ /// a6/// sw (a)śrāddhe sruka =ntweṃ ; nrain= empelye temtsate
29b	/// a7/// 13σ ·s· te :
29c	allek no ksa arhānte ; ṣāll= āntseṣṣe (perpette)
30a	/// a8/// 10σ ·e tsäṅkauwa :
30d	ot toṃ we(ña) ślokanma ; 7σ /// b1n5 /// 5σ yaneṃ ; yarp(o) nraints(e) (oko)sa 30
31b	/// b2n6 /// 11σ (snai) tsn(a)mñe :
32a	yāmornts= oko mā nakṣtär ; yāmo 5σ /// b3/// 6σ ne ; jetavaṃne mäskītär •
32d	śrāvastine 10σ /// b4n7 /// ne mäskeñcañ śtwer ṣa(māni) ///
33b	b5n8 /// ś eroṣ kamartiki r(amt) ///
33d	b6n9 /// 11σ ś{†ä} srukalñe 30-3
34c	wate lyama keṃ(tsa) 8σ ; /// b7n10 /// 4σ (sme)r-ṣlentse ; troṅkne lyam= ompalskoññe :
35a	/// b8n11 /// 10σ sta arā-me :
35b	po cai maitar nkelñe(ne) ; 7σ ///

a1	... separation from (all dear) things [is] finally the end. [25c] ...
a2	... [26a] Sickness, old age, hunger [and] thirst, these [are] the plagues ... [26b]
a3	... (death) is the one who takes (away). [26d] At one [and the same] time ...
a4	... the pupil Kāśa Kau(salya) (?) ... [27c]
a5	... to the Buddha lovingly. [28a] The three (jewels ?) ...
a6	... He died an unbeliever [and] then in a terrible hell he was [re]born. [28] ...
a7	... but another one, an Arhat, threw off (the burden) of the Skandhas ... [29c]
a8	... the emerged (doubts?). [30a] Then (the Buddha) spoke the strophes ...
b1	... they will pass through (the fruit) of merit and hell. [30d] ...
b2	... (without) influence [from the outer world]. [31b] The fruit of the deed never fades, the deed ...
b3	... (The Buddha) was staying in the Jetavana. [32a] In Śrāvastī ...
b4	... resident four monks ... [32d]
b5	... those having caused, (like) rulers ... [33b]
b6	... (there came to him) death. [33d] The second sat (on the) ground ...
b7	... in a cave of the Sumeru-mountain he sat in meditation [34c] ...
b8	... it came to end for them. All these went to destruction ... [35b]

*	Uv 1.22-1.25

*	Anityavarga (I), part two. Contains strophes 25c-35b in a 4x14 syllable-metre (rhythm: 7/7). From each verse, on average 25 syllables are missing.
n1	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28 fn. 2.
n2	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 146.
n3	In Sieg and Siegling 1949: II, 8 it is proposed to read the name Kāśa Kausalya and refer to A 431 a 3, where the same name (?), unfortunately, is also precisely damaged after ‹kau›.
n4	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28 fn. 4.
n5	Emendations according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28 fn. 8.
n6	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 147.
n7	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 147.
n8	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28 fn. 12.
n9	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28 fn. 13.
n10	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28 fn. 14.
n11	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28 fn. 15.

*	The original manuscript is missing, but was a left-over bit of the left-hand side of a leaf with schnurloch. Since THT 5 is leaf 29 of the manuscript, this leaf must have been number 25.

Tamai 2011	C5
Tamai 2011	C14

Carling 2000: a6 (142), b7 (144, 344), b8 (239); Sieg and Siegling 1949: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b8 (II, 8-9); Sieg and Siegling 1983: a3 (146); Thomas 1952: a1 (55); Thomas 1957: b3 (29); Thomas 1968: b1 (211); Thomas 1972: b1 (444); Thomas 1973a: b1 (164); Thomas 1988: b7 (246); Thomas 1993: b1 (187); Thomas 1997: b8 (71)