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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 17 Feb. 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: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

37da1/// lnta nauṣ cme(la) /// a2/// ṣṣäṃ saiwai no so /// a3/// ·etuw= ompostäṃ /// a4/// n= erṣträ 30-7
Xxkuse /// a5/// lnta cmela /// b3/// k(e)ktseñ :
Xxṣañ /// 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.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.