THT 4
| Known as: | THT 4; B 4; Bleistiftnummer 3322 |
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| 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 14 May 2025). |
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 |
Images
Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | /// rwaṃ¯ ¯ts tsre lñe ā ke po sta nmeṃ : to /// |
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| 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 /// |
Transcription
| 25b | a1/// |
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| 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 /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... separation from (all dear) things [is] finally the end. [25c] ... |
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| 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] |
Commentary
Parallel texts
| Uv 1.22-1.25 |
Philological commentary
| 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. |
Remarks
| 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. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Tamai 2011 | C5 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 13-15; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 28-30 notes 146-147
Translations
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)
Bibliography
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