THT 48

Known as:	THT 48; B 48; Bleistiftnummer 3340
Cite this page as:	Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 48". 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-tht48 (accessed 08 Jun. 2026).
Edition
Editor:	Hannes A. Fellner
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shorchuk
Expedition code:	T III Š 90.6
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Udānālaṅkāra
Passage:	uncertain; Book 21 (Cittavarga) ? - cf. Lévi 1933: A1-3, 72ff.
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	verse
Meter:	4335 (4x)
Object
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Size (h × w):	13.5 × 11.5 cm
Number of lines:	8

Transliteration

a1	/// ll· ·k· [pā] ta rntso wro· c· – ya ṣlñe : ///
a2	/// : yo kye ṣa rmpo la kle [nt]e ṅka lñe ntaṃ¯ ¯ts ///
a3	/// [rn]e wo śa rsa e mpre nma : ka lpa pe rne pa ///
a4	/// – rha nte ññe 20 4 yā ṣṣu śwā tsi a ///
a5	/// : ta nau l[y]kaṃ ra¯ ¯mt se kwe tse pī le ra pta [r]k· ///
a6	/// [ya] yā ta¯ ¯[s̝] ··e lmi pi śyä kne : snai s[pa] rk[ā] [lñe] ///
a7	/// [kn]· : v[i] śva ka rmi ñä kte ntse me mi sko¯ ¯s̝ ñä ///
a8	/// [ṣ]e ṣṣe – – : wñā [n]e po y[ś]i mā [na]ṃ ne ///
b1	/// ·k· klu tka· ts·¯ ¯ś a kṣā n· śl[o]¯ ¯k o¯ ¯t c· ///
b2	/// meṃ te¯ ¯k śa rsa au spa : ñi¯ ¯ś pa lko rmeṃ ///
b3	/// [pā] sa keṃ ñä¯ ¯ś pe ṅsa śau lwa rñai sai mne ///
b4	/// tswe ṣṣi na ka nma ma kā ykne krau peṃ [we] ///
b5	/// ā kṣa pū dñä o¯ ¯t ceṃ ṣa mā neṃ¯ ¯ts nau [ṣ]a [ññ](·) ///
b6	/// [rī] [m]eṃ tā¯ ¯u pa rna ma skī tra : śe¯ ¯m pra tyai ///
b7	/// [nt]s· : au ntsa nte pa rya ri nta yā mtsyo (·)e ///
b8	/// [ypau] – ·e da nta pu [r]i ·[e] : rī ye ///

Xx	/// ll· ·k· ; pātärntso ; wro(c)c(e) (mi)yaṣlñe :
Xx	/// a2/// :
Xx	yokye ṣarm po ; läklente ; =ṅkalñentaṃts ; /// 5σ
Xx	a3n1 7σ /// ; (pe)rnewo ; śarsa emprenma :
24d	kalpa perne ; pä(rweṣṣe) ; /// 8σ a411σ /// (a)rhanteññe 20-4
Xx	yāṣṣu śwātsi ; a /// 11σ
Xx	a5n2 15σ /// :
Xx	tanaulykaṃ ramt ; sekwetse ; pīle ra ; ptark(aso) /// 5σ
Xx	a6n3 7σ /// ; yayātaṣ ; (yś)elmi piś-yäkne :
Xx	snai spärkālñe ; /// 11σ
Xx	a714σ /// kn· :
Xx	viśvakarmi ; ñäktentse ; memiskoṣ ; ñä(kciye) /// 2σ
Xx	a811σ /// ṣeṣṣe – – :
Xx	wñā-ne poyśi ; mā naṃ ne ; /// 8σ
Xx	b11σ /// (takarṣ)k(eṃ) ; klutkä(s)ts(i)ś ; akṣā-n(e) ; ślok ot c· /// 2σ
Xx	b27σ /// ; (añma)meṃ ; te-k śarsa auspa :
Xx	ñiś pälkormeṃ ; /// 10σ
Xx	b3n4 15σ ///
Xx	(u)pāsakeṃ ; ñäś peṅsa ; śaul warñai ; saim ne /// 3σ
Xx	b42σ /// ts weṣṣi ; nakanma ; makāykne ; kraupeṃ we /// 2σ
Xx	b515σ
Xx	/// ākṣa pūdñä;{kte} ot ceṃ ; ṣamāneṃts ; nauṣaññ(e) /// 2σ
Xx	b67σ /// ; rīmeṃ tā_u ; parna mäskītra :
Xx	śem pratyai /// 12σ
Xx	b714σ /// nts· :
Xx	auntsante par;yarinta ; yāmtsy o(mt)e ; /// 5σ
Xx	b87σ /// ; ypau(nan)e ; dantapuri(n)e :
Xx	rīye /// 13σ

a1	... the great damage of the fathers ...
a2	... Thirst [is] the source of all sufferings and attachments ...
a3	... the worthy one perceived the [four] truths [and] reached the fi(rst) level ...
a4	... Arhathood. [24d] To eat alms (from somewhere else) ...
a5	... also like the wound of pus [attracts] flies. Give up [pl.] the ...
a6	... the fivefold pleasures have [not] been able to, [so] without disappearance...
a7	... exchanged by the god Viśvakarma [in the divine shape (?)] ...
a8	... To him spoke the Omniscient: Not Nanda ...
b1	... to let him become (believing) he then proclaimed this strophe to him ...
b2	... he indeed perceived this: Truly, with regard to myself ...
b3	... take me as a lay member, (to be) [my] lifelong shelter ...
b4	... he spoke often about the damages of the (pleasures), he spoke [whole] sections ...
b5	... The Buddha then told an earlier (incident) of these monks ...
b6	... he was out of town at that time. (To the) Pratyekabuddha came ...
b7	... They began to do miracles ...
b8	... (in the) countries, in the town Dantapura. The town ...

*	The 4 x 15-syllable-metre apparently used in this fragment is already known to us from the second part of the Mārgavarga (XII), cf. THT 28 - THT 30. This fragment here, however, cannot be part of the latter, since the content here does not match with that of THT 30, which shows the same strophe numbers. The same metre, however, was also used in the chapter dealing with the Cittavarga (XXXI), see Lévi 1933: A1-3, 72ff., and the agreement of b2 tek\ śarsa auspa : ñiś palkormeṃ with Lévi 1933: A1b4 klyauṣa nande ñäś ṣarmmeṃ pudñäkte ślokanma weña is rather astounding. But in A1b4 this is already strophe 81, whereas a4 in this text has the strophe number 24. Due to the scantiness of the fragment, which, after all, has preserved only a single strophe number, not even recto and verso side can be identified with any certainty; and in the translation a lot of things remain doubtful.
n1	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 86 fn. 2.
n2	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 86 fn. 3.
n3	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 86 fn. 4.
n4	Emendation according to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 86 fn. 5. Schmidt 1986: 122 prefers to amend to ... saimne (ykuweṣo) “accept me [as] a lay follower, [who have taken] refuge for [my] whole life”.

*	Fragment from the centre of a leaf, damaged on all edges.

Tamai 2011	C3
Tamai 2011	C14

Carling 2000: b8 (160); Schmidt 1986: b3 (122); Sieg and Siegling 1949: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 b7 b8 (II, 70-71); Thomas 1954: b1 (752); Thomas 1957: b4 (62), b6 (27); Thomas 1981: b3 (489); Thomas 1995: b4 (65)