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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 09 Dec. 2023).
Provenience
Main find spot:	Qizil Miŋ-Öy
Expedition code:	T III MQ 69
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB; Sanskrit
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

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

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	/// m • śvalmeṃn 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 2008b	A2
Tamai 2011a	A2
Tamai 2011a	C14

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 2008b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2008b. 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 2011a

Tamai, Tatsushi. 2011a. 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.”