THT 4081
| Known as: | THT 4081; SHT 851; Lüders no. K 123 |
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| 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 10 Nov. 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
Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| b3 | ne saṃ paṃ ñä kteṃ |
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Transcription
| b3 | nesäṃ päṃñäkteṃ |
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Translation
| b3 | The Buddhas exist. |
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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
Edition
Waldschmidt 1971: 97-98; Malzahn 2007b: 303
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
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, 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.
