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THT 553

Known as:THT 553; B 55; Bleistiftnummer 2508
Cite this page as:"THT 553". 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-tht553 (accessed 06 Oct. 2024).

Provenience

Main find spot:Kizil Ming-öy
Expedition code:T III MQ 73.8, T III MQ 69
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:archaic
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Praise of the Āryamarga
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 552-557
Following fragment:THT 554
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

Images

Transliteration

a1///
a2/// – – k(·) ///
a3/// – ṅke po ○ yś[i] [t]s(·) ///
a4/// – tsa¯ ¯tsä ·[au] ///
a5///
a6///
b1/// pi tmeṃ tne knai ya taṃ ///
b2/// rnai snai lyi paṃ¯ ¯r 9 [śtw]e ///
b3/// ·[s]k· ·n· [ta] [ne] ya taṃ pru tka stsi pra ha [rn]e ///
b4/// ra ti pa [tta] tsme nta rs̝pa • piṃ¯ ¯ś i ndri ṣi mai ///
b5/// l· [t]si : po ra ta [nta] wo ko ntraṃ yta rye [l]·· ///
b6/// nma nai ñu mka o kta ta ne ya ///

(continues on THT 554)

Transcription

a1///
a2/// – – ///
a3/// – ṅke poyśi(ṃ)ts(e) ///
a4/// – tsa(ṃ)ts ·au ///
a5///
a6///
b1/// pitmeṃ tne-k nai yatäṃ ///
b2/// r nai snai lyipaṃr 9 śtwe ///
b3/// ·sk· ·n· täne yatäṃ prutkästsi praharne ///
b4/// rätipatta tsmentar ṣpäpiṃś indriṣi mai ///
b5/// l·tsi : po ratanta wokonträ-ṃ ytarye l·· ///
b6/// nma nai ñumka okta tane ya ///

(continues on THT 554)

Other

b1he is able to … from the Tuṣita-heaven (Peyrot 2013b: 665)
b3he is able to lock up (Peyrot 2013b: 665)
b6he is able to (drive off) the ninety-eight kleśas (?) (Peyrot 2013b: 665)

Commentary

Remarks

In one frame with THT 555. The manuscript THT 522-557 consists of two layers of paper cut from a Chinese scroll. On this leaf, on one side only part of the Tocharian has been preserved (this part has not been edited in Sieg and Siegling 1953, where only the "Rückseite" is given. To be consistent, this non-edited part is here given as recto side (even though on IDP the sides have been switched).

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Peyrot 2008A2
Tamai 2011A3
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 553; TITUS: THT 553

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 348-349

Translations

Hackstein 1995: b5 (128); Peyrot 2013b: b1 (665), b3 (665), b6 (665)

Bibliography

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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.

Peyrot 2013b

Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.

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.