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THT 562

Known as:THT 562; B 562; Bleistiftnummer 2219
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz (translation). "THT 562". 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-tht562 (accessed 27 Mar. 2025).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz (translation)

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III Š 64.14
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

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
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:5

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Transliteration

a1/// yu [k]r· ntaṃ o n[o] lm· tsa a· tt· s̝a – –
a2/// [•] kuse no ce¯ ¯u e tsu wai ya neṃ pā lā nta¯ ¯r ā
a3/// ceṃ tsa ma ske tra pa rka reṃ pre ke ntsa sa ka
a4/// lmeṃ tsa la ktsau ña yā mu sa ma ske ta rne
a5/// [ma] [s]·e [ta] r·e la [k]·e [t]·· [n]·

Transcription

a1/// yu kr(e)ntäṃ onolm(eṃ)ts{†ä} a(r)tt(a)ṣ{†ä} – –
a2/// • kuse no ceu etsuwai yaneṃ pālāntär ā
a3/// ceṃts{†ä} mäsketrä pärkareṃ prekentsa sak{†ä}
a4/// lmeṃts{†ä} läktsauña yāmusa mäsketär-ne
a5/// mäs(k)etär(-n)e läk·et··

Translation

a1... approves of the good people...
a2+... whoever goes towards him and praises him..., they have bliss for a long time...
a4... brightness is made by him to the beings (?)...
a5... he has...

Commentary

Remarks

*Verso Chinese. The Chinese text is from an earlier part in the text of the Daśabhūmikasūtra than all the previous fragments.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011C3
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 562; TITUS: THT 562

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 353

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 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.