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THT 54

Known as:THT 54; B 54
Cite this page as:Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 54". 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-tht54 (accessed 06 Oct. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Hannes A. Fellner

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III Š 94 Frgm
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Udānālaṅkāra
Passage:uncertain
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:Udānālaṅkāra A
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:4

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Transliteration

a2/// kuse¯ ¯s̝ tu ///
a3/// wno lme¯ ¯ts : ā [yo] ///
a4/// k[t]e rā [ja] gr[i] ne [tā¯] [¯u] ///
b2/// : ta ryā ka [ṣ]u kta [bo] dha ///

Transcription

Xxa2/// kuse tu /// a3/// wnolmets :
Xxāyo(r) /// a4/// (pudñäkte)kte rājagrine u /// b2/// :
täryāka ṣukt{†ä} bodha ///

Translation

a2... who ...
a3... of the beings ...
a4... the Buddha in Rājagrha ...
b2... thirty-seven Bodhipākṣika- ...

Commentary

Philological commentary

No strophe number. On the 'thirty-seven Bodhipākṣika-Dharmas' in b2, see Kasawara 1885.

Remarks

The original manuscript is missing, but was a badly damaged small fragment with remnants of five lines. The writing was extremely attrited.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 54; TITUS: THT 54

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 74; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 89 notes 224

Bibliography

IDP

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

Kasawara 1885

Kasawara, Kenjiu. 1885. The Dharma-Saṃgraha. An ancient collection of Buddhist technical terms. Edited by Max F. Müller and Heinrich Wenzel. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Sieg and Siegling 1949

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1949. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 1. Die Udānālaṅkāra-Fragmente. Text, Übersetzung und Glossar. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Sieg and Siegling 1983

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1983. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B. Teil I: Die Texte. Band 1. Fragmente Nr. 1-116 der Berliner Sammlung. Edited by Werner Thomas. Neubearbeitet und mit einem Kommentar nebst Register versehen v. 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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.