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THT 466

Known as:	THT 466; B 466; Bleistiftnummer 2574
Cite this page as:	Adrian Musitz. "THT 466". 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-tht466 (accessed 11 Jun. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Adrian Musitz
Provenience
Main find spot:	Kizil Ming-öy
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	late
Script:	cursive
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Account
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Scroll

Transliteration

a1	/// – [r]· to¯ ¯m ko ysaṃ
a2	/// yi rma kkai ki mña ntse ka pci
a3	/// yi rpṣu ki pu tte yā ne ntse ka pci
a4	/// ·i – – – – l· ·eṃ ///

Transcription

a1	/// (śwā)r(a) tom koysaṃ
a2	/// yirmakkai kimñantse kapci
a3	/// yirpṣuki putteyānentse kapci
a4	/// ·i – – – – l· ·eṃ ///

Translation

a1	... four pecks, koysaṃ.
a2	... The yirmakka Kimña'sn1 finger-measure.
a3	... The yirpṣuki Putteyāne's finger-measure.

Commentary

Philological commentary

n1	Kimña appears to be a derivative of *kim, the common Chinese name 金，which is attested as a signature in THT 440 and THT 2698.b. *Kim's Sanskrit name was Dharmarakṣite. Thus *kimña means 'the woman of Kim', cf. Ching 2010: 271.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 466; TITUS: THT 466

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 298; Ching 2010: 284-285