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THT 546

Known as:THT 546; B 546; B 546a; Bleistiftnummer 2665
Cite this page as:"THT 546". 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-tht546 (accessed 07 Jul. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:T III MQ 69
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:Skt.; TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:archaic

Text contents

Title of the work:Sanskrit poem with TB word-by-word translation
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Poetry
Verse/Prose:prose

Object

Manuscript:THT 545-546
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

Images

Transliteration

a1/// spa rka lyñe ko
a2/// [¯m] [•] śva lmeṃ nta ko¯ ¯ī
a3/// • dau rga tya me va
a4/// – – – – yo l[o]
a5/// [ai] na ke
b1/// na ya
b2/// ṣṣ· na ·[y]· tse nta –
b3/// du ṣṣa ha mu [ṣ]ṇa
b4/// lyñe ṣṣe la kle •
b5/// ai śau m[y]· ñä kte

Transcription

a1/// spärkalyñe ko
a2/// mśvalmeṃn takoī
a3/// • daurgatyam eva
a4/// – – – – yolo
a5/// ainake
b1/// naya
b2/// ṣṣ(a)na (ñ) y(a)tsenta
b3/// duṣṣaham uṣṇa
b4/// lyñeṣṣe läkle
b5/// aiśaumy· ñäkte

Commentary

Remarks

*In one frame with THT 546.a

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008A2
Tamai 2011A2
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 546; TITUS: THT 546

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 342

Bibliography

IDP

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

Peyrot 2008

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008. Variation and change in Tocharian B. Vol. 15. Leiden Studies in Indo-European. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

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.

Tamai 2011

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011. Paläographische Untersuchungen zum B-Tocharischen. Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 138. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen.

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.