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THT 4081

Known as:THT 4081; SHT 851; Lüders no. K 123
Cite this page as:Melanie Malzahn. "THT 4081". 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-tht4081 (accessed 30 Apr. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Melanie Malzahn

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Specific find spot:Rothkuppelraum
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Gloss
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):6.9 × 12.8 cm
Number of lines:6, 3

Images

Transliteration

b3ne sapaṃ ñä kteṃ

Transcription

b3nesäṃ päṃñäkteṃ

Translation

b3The Buddhas exist.

Commentary

Philological commentary

*Pace K.T. Schmidt apud Waldschmidt 1971: 98 with fn. 5 one has to read obl.pl. paṃñäkteṃ even though one would, of course, expect a nominative.

Remarks

*The recto side contains a Sanskrit Prātimokṣa text, the verso side contains two lines in TB on top of the leaf, which is written by a different hand than the recto side in a clumsy, uneven ductus; on the bottom of the otherwise blank side one finds another TB clause written again by a different hand in normal book-style ductus.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 4081

Edition

Waldschmidt 1971: 97-98; Malzahn 2007b: 303

Bibliography

IDP

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

Malzahn 2007b

Malzahn, Melanie. 2007b. “A preliminary survey of the Tocharian glosses in the Berlin Turfan Collection.” In Instrumenta Tocharica, edited by Melanie Malzahn, 301–19. Heidelberg: Winter.

Waldschmidt 1971

Waldschmidt, Ernst. 1971. Sanskrithandschriften aus den Turfanfunden. Teil 3. Die Katalognummern 802–1014. Unter Mitarbeit von Walter Clawiter und Lore Sander-Holzmann. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland 10. Wiesbaden: Steiner.