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THT 539

Known as:	THT 539; B 539; Bleistiftnummer 2851
Cite this page as:	"THT 539". 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-tht539 (accessed 02 Dec. 2023).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Khočo (Dakianus)
Expedition code:	T III D 15
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB; Sanskrit
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Bilingual list of doctrinal terms
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	THT 527-540
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	5

Images

Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.

Transliteration

a1	/// m·ṃ e ///
a2	/// wra ntsai ///
a3	/// ·k· ka tk[a] lyi • u pa ///
a4	/// [n]iṃ • kuse nai nt[a] ña ke ///
a5	/// meṃ • a pe to grā ma ///
b1	/// [ñc]· tstse • u trā sī [mau] ///
b2	/// sy[ā] va nu – [t]e • lai ///
b3	/// ri tāṃ • ma ka mñai ///
b4	/// • pe ///
b5	/// sa ///

Transcription

a1	/// m(e)ṃ e ///
a2	/// wrantsai ///
a3	/// ·k· katkalyi • upa ///
a4	/// niṃ • kuse nai nta ñake ///
a5	/// meṃ • apeto grāma ///
b1	/// ñc·tstse • utrāsīmau ///
b2	/// syāvanu – te • lai ///
b3	/// ritāṃ • makamñai ///
b4	/// • pe ///
b5	/// sa ///

Commentary

Remarks

	In one frame with THT 540 and m-tht540bf.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 539; TITUS: THT 539

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 337-338

Bibliography

IDP

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

Sieg and Siegling 1953

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1953. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 2. Fragmente Nr. 71-633. Edited by Werner Thomas. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

TITUS

Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.”