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THT 56

Known as:THT 56; B 56
Cite this page as:Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 56". 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-tht56 (accessed 04 May 2024).

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:6

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Transliteration

a1/// [l]nta nau¯ ¯s̝ cme – ///
a2/// s̝s̝aṃ sai wai no so ///
a3/// ·e tu wo mpo staṃ ///
a4/// [n]e rṣtra 30 7 kuse ///
a5/// l[nt]a cme la ///
b3/// k· ktse¯ ¯ñ [:] [ṣ]a ñ[w]· ///
b4/// pyai ru : sū ce cme ///
b5/// [ṣl]o na e rke nma ///
b6/// [k]·e ñya snā ///

Transcription

37d a1/// lnta nauṣ cme(la) /// a2/// ṣṣäṃ saiwai no so /// a3/// ·etuw= ompostäṃ /// a4/// n= erṣträ 30-7
Xx kuse /// a5/// lnta cmela /// b3/// k(e)ktseñ :
Xx ṣañ w· /// b4/// p yairu :
ce cme ///
b5 /// ṣlona erkenma ///
b6 /// k·eñ yasnā ///

Translation

a1 ... (root of merrit) previous births ...
a2 ... left ...
a3 ... after ...
a4 ... evokes [37] who ...
a5 ... (root of merrit) the births ...
b3 ... body ...
b4 ... having practiced. This the birth ...
b5 ... cemeteries ...
b6 ... they hurl down ...

Commentary

Philological commentary

Only one strophe number here (37). Recto and verso side as well as metre cannot be determined with any certainty.

Remarks

The original manuscript is missing, but was a small fragment with torn-off edges.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 56; TITUS: THT 56

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 75; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 89 notes 224

Translations

Sieg and Siegling 1983: b6 (224)

Bibliography

IDP

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

Sieg and Siegling 1949

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1949. Tocharische Sprachreste. Sprache B, Heft 1. Die Udānālaṅkāra-Fragmente. Text, Übersetzung und Glossar. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

Sieg and Siegling 1983

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.

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.”