THT 55
| Known as: | THT 55; B 55 |
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| Cite this page as: | Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 55". 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-tht55 (accessed 24 Apr. 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Hannes A. Fellner |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 101 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: | 7 |
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
| a2 | /// ·[ñ]ma ssu 30-1 |
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| a3 | /// a sta ro [na] |
| a4 | /// [s]w[ā] ñme [y]· – |
| a5 | /// [sa] 30 3 ·e – |
| a6 | /// pn· tra cwi kly[au] – |
| a7 | /// s[n]ai [ka] – – |
| b2 | /// ly[m]i ke ktse ñ·e – – |
| b3 | /// ¯k sru k[au] – |
| b4 | /// lkā s̝s̝aṃ : – – |
| b5 | /// ṣṣ[e] lye lyko |
| b6 | /// rmeṃ ru pa ṣṣa |
Transcription
| 31d | a2/// (a)ñmassu 30-1 |
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| 33d | a3/// astarona a4/// sw āñme y· – a5/// sa 30-3 |
| * | ·e ·– |
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| a6 | /// (wär)pn(ā)trä cwi klyau – |
| a7 | /// snai kä – – |
| b2 | /// (eka)lymi kektseñ(ts)e – – |
| b3 | /// k srukau – |
| b4 | /// lkāṣṣäṃ : – – |
| b5 | /// ṣṣe lyelyko¬ |
| b6 | (rmeṃ) /// rmeṃ rupaṣṣa |
Translation
| a2 | ... desirous [31] ... |
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| a3 | ... pure ... |
| a4 | ... desire ... |
| a5 | ... [33] ... |
| a6 | ... he suffered of which ... |
| a7 | ... without ... |
| b2 | ... dependent on the body ... |
| b3 | ... dead ... |
| b4 | ... he sees ... |
| b5 | ... having seen ... |
| b6 | ... of the form/shape ... |
Commentary
Philological commentary
| The strophe numbers 31 and 33 are to be found on the same side, with three lines between them. Recto and verso side as well as the metre cannot be determined with certainty. |
Remarks
| The original manuscript is missing, but was a small fragment of the right edge of a leaf, damaged on all edges. |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 74-74; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 89-90 notes 224
Bibliography
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1949. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 1. Die Udānālaṅkāra-Fragmente. Text, Übersetzung und Glossar. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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.
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.
