THT 41
| Known as: | THT 41; B 41 |
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| Cite this page as: | Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 41". 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-tht41 (accessed 07 Aug. 2026). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Hannes A. Fellner |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 87.1 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | Udānālaṅkāra |
| Passage: | Book 15 (Smṛtivarga), stophes 9-22. |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Doctrine |
| Verse/Prose: | verse |
| Meter: | 4343 (1x), 56 (3x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | Udānālaṅkāra B |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 8 |
Transliteration
| lf | 2 100 20 |
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| a1 | 8 ke ktse ñpa lsko śsa sai nu a nā s̝s̝a lñe sa tā· ·ñ· – – – – – – – [l]m· [na] ·tw – [t]w· mp· – – – – – – ·k· [n]· kā lṣw· – – – – – |
| a2 | no yne śyā mo¯ ¯s̝ mā sa tā ṣṣaṃ 9 śta rcce dhyāṃ kuse yne śyā mta¯ ¯r pa lsko mske ta¯ ¯r lya śka ttsai¯ ¯k • e ne ṅka¯ ¯ś pa spā rtau cwi mai¯ ¯m pa lskwa ttsai¯ ¯k • sa nme tsa¯ ¯s̝ cwi k· ·ts· – – |
| a3 | ma ske ta¯ ¯r • toṃ s̝a rmna sa sa tā ṣlñe mā ce¯ ¯ts ne saṃ 10 mä kce¯ ¯u yke ṣṣa ke ktse ñe tā¯ ¯u ke na ṣṣe sa tā ṣlñe : nai ṣya ndi kno sā¯ ¯u ye nte ka rsa na lya : ne saṃ ye ntau pa ca yi¯ ¯k |
| a4 | śle¯ ¯k vi pā ka¯ ¯k • mā no sā¯ ¯u sa tā ṣlñe ne yaṃ ṣa s̝a lne 10-1 ai śa mñe te ntse ṣa ññe kuśa la mū ltse te pka rsa¯ ¯s • ī me no mai yya ka lpau ce¯ ¯u krau pe ne : tu |
| a5 | ntse ṣa rmtsā nā pā na smṛ ti we stra : o nwa ññe ntse se twe re tī kṣṇe ndrye¯ ¯ts 10 2 yśe lme cce e rsnā sso nto śai ṣṣe mpa se ri tto wo : yśe lme tse śai ṣṣe cwi ste |
| a6 | ai śai yyā mṣle : pi¯ ¯s bhū mi nta sai myā mu yā taṃ e rtsi : u pe kṣi ndri nta mpa se ri po ntpre keṃ 10 3 ṣka¯ ¯s yä kne sa se we sta¯ ¯r a nā s̝s̝a lñe sa tā ṣlñe : ṣaṃ s̝a lño mpo |
| a7 | staṃ ya lñe tsñai pa lka lñe : sta ma s̝a lñe klau tka ṣlñe a sta ra ññe : śa s̝ka¯ ¯s klau tkeṃ se we sta¯ ¯r o mpa lsko ññe 10 4 s̝aṃ ṣa lñe su tne we stra pi¯ ¯ś klau tkeṃ ntsa s̝aṃ |
| a8 | ṣa lñe : me ṅki o lypo trī wä ṣlñe a sta rñe s̝pa : s̝aṃ ṣa lñe ṣe wī trai śtwe¯ ¯r pi¯ ¯ś śa¯ ¯k ta ṅtsi nano ka lya ṅkaṃ sa tā ṣlñe śka rśka¯ ¯r ṣaṃ s̝ta¯ ¯r 10 5 me ṅki no s̝aṃ ṣa lñe t[n]e ṣu¯ ¯k· |
| b1 | o¯ ¯kt śa¯ ¯k wa¯ ¯t sa tā s̝s̝a : ṣka spi¯ ¯ś ñu wa tno ṣaṃ s̝ta¯ ¯r mā po so lme : o lypo no s̝aṃ ṣa lñe tne ko ssa tā s̝s̝aṃ : me ṅki tu meṃ sa tā ṣlñe ke śyā ma sta¯ ¯r 10 6 trī |
| b2 | wä s̝lñe kuce sa tā s̝s̝aṃ tu a nā ṣlñe e ṅka sta¯ ¯r • a nā s̝s̝aṃ wa¯ ¯t sa tā ṣlñe ke śya ma sta¯ ¯r • a sta rñe pi¯ ¯ś a nā s̝s̝aṃ pi śtu ṣaṃ ṣtra sa tā s̝s̝aṃ wa¯ ¯t pi¯ ¯ś lykwa rwa tu kṣi¯ ¯ś ṣaṃ |
| b3 | s̝ta¯ ¯r 10 7 ye nto mpo staṃ no ya lñe e ntā nā s̝s̝aṃ me le ntsa : ye nte ne ṅka yo paṃ ne yaṃ two mpo staṃ : ī mai śa mñe so mpo staṃ yaṃ su ye nte : ko rne ke le nā ra ñcä śpai ne |
| b4 | ta ṅtsi 10 8 eṃ ṣke pai ñe mo ko ci¯ ¯ś ā śaṃ ī me tu meṃ toṃ : lna ske ma ne mo ko cmeṃ ye nteṃ lkā s̝s̝aṃ : ywā rtsa tā na kwä ñcī tṣai kwä ñci¯ ¯t ya rmwa¯ ¯t : prā ri |
| b5 | ra so po kai wa¯ ¯t lau ke yku wa 10 9 ko¯ ¯s cwi mai yyai śa mñe s̝s̝a ko sī ndri nta to¯ ¯t lkā s̝s̝aṃ : tu meṃ no sta ma s̝s̝a lñe ma kte ye nte¯ ¯ts • me leṃ tsa yai pwa ye |
| b6 | nteṃ ko rne sta ms̝aṃ : a ra ñcne ke le¯ ¯ś pai ñe mo ko cne wa¯ ¯t 20 kau¯ ¯cä yku wa ye nte nsta ms̝aṃ ta rne neṃ ṣke po ye nteṃ : ke ktse nne stmau wa lkā s̝s̝aṃ pru tkau wa ra¯ ¯mt • wa me rra¯ ¯mt śe rk[n]e sta |
| b7 | sai ke ktse¯ ¯ñä lkā s̝s̝aṃ : ce te ykne sa sta ma ṣlñe ye nte¯ ¯ts pka rsa¯ ¯s 20-1 e tswai pa lka lñe ye nteṃ me leṃ ntse neṃ yai pwa toṃ : ko rne ke kmwa lkā s̝s̝aṃ me ke le¯ ¯ś ke – – – – – |
| b8 | ¯ś eṃ ṣke pai ñe mo ko¯ ¯cä ta ṅtsi : tu meṃ c[w]i ma¯ ¯nt ma s·e – /// |
Transcription
| lf | 2-100-20 |
Translation
| a1 | The one having relied on body and mind the inhaling and exhaling ... |
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| a1+ | For they have realized (the fourth Dhyāna). |
| a2 | No-one breathes out, [9d] who has not realized the fourth Dhyāna. |
| a2 | The mind becomes all feeble. |
| a2 | Turned towards the inside his thought and feeling |
| a2+ | his whole body is in a trance. |
| a3 | For such reasons there is no exhaling for these. |
| a3 | To which place the body belongs, to the earth [also] belongs [its] exhaling. |
| a3 | For the wind must be understood as naiṣyandika [“belonging to the discharge (of the body)”]. |
| a3+ | There is [also] the aupacayika [“coming from nourishment”], also the vipākaya [“originating in the compensation for the deeds”]. |
| a4 | But this does not count in exhaling. |
| a4 | Knowledge of this, this recognize as the nature of the root of merit, |
| a4 | for the consciousness has received the power in the section (lit. group), |
| a4+ | because of this it is called ānāpānasṃrti. |
| a5 | This is the gate of immortality for those having sharp senses. |
| a5 | This [is] connected to the sensual shaped [“rūpa”] and [the world] as wished [“kāma”] world. |
| a5+ | The sensual world must be be taken care of. |
| a6 | If it [the ānāpānasṃrti] the one that takes refuge in the five Bhūmis [“earths”] with the indifferent senses can be evoked, then this one [the world as wished] should evoked it [the ānāpānasṃrti] at all times. |
| a6 | In a six-fold way is this inhaling and exhaling being called: |
| a6+ | counting after [“gaṇanā”] going towards [“anugama”], looking up [“upalakṣanā”], placing [“sthāna”], turning [“vivartanā”] [and] purity [“pariśuddhi”]. |
| a7 | As having sixteen ways this meditation is called. |
| a7 | The counting here is called fivefold: |
| a7+ | counting, less, more, mixing and purity. |
| a8 | Counting [, this is] one, two, three, four, five to ten. |
| a8 | Again [and again] he counts others as inhaling, ten by ten. |
| a8 | Counting less, however, [is] here: |
| a8+ | Seven, eight or ten [times] he exhales, |
| b1 | but he calls [only] six, five or nine, [but] not the full amount. |
| b1 | More counting furthermore [is] here: |
| b1 | How often he exhales, he counts [it] less than that as exhaling |
| b1+ | Mixing [is this]: |
| b2 | What he exhales, he understands as inhaling, |
| b2 | or [what] he inhales, he counts [as] exhaling. |
| b2 | Purity [is this]: |
| b2 | five [times] he inhales [and] counts this as five, |
| b2+ | or five times he breathes out [and] also counts this as five. |
| b3 | Following the wind, furthermore, [is this]: |
| b3 | when he inhales through the nose [and] the wind enters him, he follows it. |
| b3 | With consciousness and knowledge he follows the wind: into the throat, into the navel, towards the heart down into the feet. |
| b4 | [All the way] to the big toe he leads the consciousness, |
| b4 | from there he sees the winds emerging from the big toe, half a sesame-seed or a [whole] sesame-seed in measure, [the length of] one finger, one span or one arm having come [out]. |
| b5 | As far as his mind’s power [will allow], as far as his sensual organs, so far he sees. |
| b5 | How then is, furthermore, the placing of the winds? |
| b5+ | [Answer:] Having entered by the nose the winds he places in the throat, in the heart, towards the navel or in the big toe. |
| b6 | The winds having come upwards he places in the crown of the head, |
| b6 | until he sees all winds standing in the body, as if locked in. |
| b6+ | Like a jewel on a string the body he sees. |
| b7 | In this way understand the placing of the winds. |
| b7 | Looking up [is this]: |
| b7 | The winds having entered by the nose, those he sees having come to the throat, [having] come to the navel, (having come) to the (heart) unto the big toe. |
| b8 | Then from such a one is ... |
| a1 | [8d] |
| a3 | [10d] |
| a4 | [11d] |
| a5 | [12d] |
| a6 | [13d] |
| a7 | [14d] |
| a8 | [15d] |
| b1 | [16d]. |
| b3 | [17d] |
| b4 | [18d] |
| b5 | [19d] |
| b6 | [20d] |
| b7 | [21d] |
Other
| a7 | Als sechzehn Erscheinungsformen habend wird diese Versenkung gelehrt. (Schmidt 1974: 225) |
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| a7+ | Das Zählen, das wird hier in fünf Erscheinungsformen gelehrt: [Richtig] zählen, weniger, mehr, Mischen und Reinhalten. (Schmidt 1974: 225) |
| a7+ | Das Zählen wird hier in fünf Erscheinungsformen gelehrt: [Richtig] Zählen, weniger, mehr, Mischen und Reinhalten. ... Reinhalten ist: Fünf[mal] atmet er ein [und] zählt das [als] fünf, oder fünfmal atmet er aus [und] zählt das ebenfalls [als] fünf. (Schmidt 1974: 352) |
| b1+ | Mehr zählen ferner [ist] hier: Wie oft er ausatmet, zählt er weniger als das als Ausatmen. Vermischen [ist]: Was er ausatmet, das fasst er [als] Einatmen auf, oder [was] er einatmet, zählt er [als] Ausatmen. (Schmidt 1974: 340, 397) |
| b3 | Going after the wind is: when he inhales through the nose and the wind enters inside him, [then] it goes after it. (cf : ii, 61) (Peyrot 2013b: 684) |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| In b1 instead of 'five' one would expect 'seven', and 'less than that' should probably read 'more than that'. | |
| This leaf, which, according to leaf number and content, belongs to the Smṛtivarga (XV), in strophes 9-22 contained in it deals with the ānāpānasmṛti, the meditation relating to breathing in and out. On this matter cf. Abhidh-k 6, p. 153ff. The metre is 14/11/11/11 syllables in the rhythm 7/7 and 7/4. | |
| n1 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 75 fn. 4 the reading =etsñai should be corrected to =etswai in the transcription. |
| n3 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 75 fn. 5 the reading alyaṇkäṃ should be corrected to alyeṇkäṃ in the transcription. |
| n4 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 76 fn. 1 the reading satāṣṣä should be corrected to satāṣṣä(ṃ) in the transcription, also yāmastär to yamastär. |
| n6 | According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 76 fn. 3 the verse interpunction is missing after ṣaṃṣträ and ṣiś should be corrected to piś. |
Remarks
| The original manuscript is missing, but, like THT 31 and THT 3 (alongside which it was found) was damaged only at the top edge and otherweise almost complete. Contained leaf number 220. |
Linguistic commentary
| n2 | astarñe for astaräññe. |
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| n5 | astarñe for astaräññe. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 60-61; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 75-76 notes 207-211
Translations
Adams 2013: a3 (11-12); Carling 2000: a1 (77, 177), a6 (282), a6 a7 (326), a8 (328), b3 b4 (193), b4 (350), b5 b6 (45), b6 (345), b7 (326, 328), b7 b8 (350); Hackstein 1995: a1 (247), a6 (247), b2 (224, 247f), b3 (248, 311), b5 (311); Krause 1952: b3 (206); Meunier 2013: b1 (146), b1 b2 (146); Peyrot 2013b: b3 (684); Schmidt 1974: a7 (225), a7 a8 (225), a7 a8 b1 b2 b3 (352), b1 b2 (340, 397); Sieg and Siegling 1949: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b8 (II, 59-61); Sieg and Siegling 1983: a1 (208), a2 (208), a3 (209), a4 (209), a6 (210), b3 (210), b4 (210), b6 b7 (211); Thomas 1954: a6 (724), a8 (749), b3 b4 (749), b7 b8 (749); Thomas 1957: a2 (260), a4 a5 (260), a5 (265); Thomas 1967a: a3 (76), b6 (76); Thomas 1967c: a7 a8 (178); Thomas 1968: b6 (203); Thomas 1970a: b1 (453); Thomas 1972: a6 (461), b1 (450); Thomas 1979b: a7 (61), a8 (35), b1 (35); Thomas 1979d: a3 a4 (162); Thomas 1983: a4 (36), b4 (42); Thomas 1986: a8 (123); Thomas 1988: a7 (256); Thomas 1997: a6 (78), a8 b1 (115)
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