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THT 559.2

Known as:	THT 559.2; THT 552; Pencil no. 2222
Cite this page as:	Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 559.2". 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-tht5592 (accessed 04 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Hannes A. Fellner
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Expedition code:	T III Š 66
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Dhūtaguṇa
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Doctrine
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Manuscript:	THT 558-562
Leaf number:	90-3
Preceding fragment:	THT 559.1
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	5

Images

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

Transliteration

(continues from THT 559.1)

a1	kaṃ ñe e ne pre tā ṣṭra • se a ke ssu śma śā ni ke ste • śma śā ni ke ntse ṣa mā neṃ tse ṣe kaṃ
a2	ñe yma ssu ma ske lle ai ke ma ne ne sa lñe tse po wä nta ne [i] – [e] ypa rwe ya ma
a3	lñe nta ya ma s̝a lo na • pa pā ṣṣo rñe so mo – ṃ [ñ]e – r[e] ya ma s̝a
a4	lle śwā tsi yo ktsi ne yma ssu ma ske lle kuse mi ·[ai] ·[e] – – – – k[i] sa yä – e
a5	ñe o ksai ñe la ksa ññe wä sta rye tu wi kṣa lle • – – – – – – wi kṣa lo – –

Transcription

(continues from THT 559.1)

a1	kaṃñe enepre tāṣṭrä • se akessu śmaśānike ste • śmaśānikentse ṣamāneṃtse ṣekaṃ-
a2	-ñen1 ymassu mäskelle aikemane nesalñetse po wäntane i(m)e yparwe yama-
a3	-lñenta yamaṣälona • papāṣṣorñe somo(tkä)ṃñe (lā)re yamaṣä-
a4	-llen2 śwātsi yoktsine ymassu mäskelle kuse mi·ai ·e – – – – kisa yä(kw)e-
a5	-ñe oksaiñe läksaññe wästarye tu wikṣalle • – – – – – – wikṣalo(na) –

Commentary

Remarks

	Verso Chinese. This leaf immediately follows THT 559.1, though it has the same leaf number. In Sieg and Siegling 1953: 352 it has been edited as no. 559 b.

Linguistic commentary

n1	ymassu for imassu.
n2	ymassu for imassu.

Philological commentary

	Leaf number sic!

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011a	C5
Tamai 2011a	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 559,2; TITUS: THT 559,2

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 352

Bibliography

IDP

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

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.”