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THT 58

Known as:THT 58; B 58
Cite this page as:Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 58". 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-tht58 (accessed 16 May 2025).

Edition

Editor:Hannes A. Fellner

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III Š 94 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:4

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Transliteration

a1/// – ly❠¯k ytā [r] – ///
a2/// mā śau¯ ¯l śa l[ñ]e ///
a3/// rā ja gri n· ma [sk]· – ///
b2/// ·[ā] [p]a nta a mo [ka] ///
b3/// ·n· ru ddhe su [s]· ///
b4/// 20 7 cai ñya ·e ///

Transcription

27da1/// (a)lyāk ytār(ye) /// a2n1 /// śaul śalñe /// a3/// rājagrin(e) mäsk(īträ) /// b2/// ·āpänta amokä(nta) /// b3/// (a)n(i)ruddhe su /// b4/// 20-7
*cai ñya ·e ·///

Translation

a1... other path ...
a2... not able to live life ...
a3... he was in Rājagrha ...
b2... arts ...
b3... Aniruddha ...
b4... [27] ...

Commentary

Philological commentary

*Only a single strophe number (27). Recto/verso side and metre are not determinable. In b3 Aniruddha is mentioned.
n1According to Sieg and Siegling 1983: 90 fn. 4 the reading śalñe should be corrected to śailñe in the transcription.

Remarks

*The original manuscript is missing, but was a small fragment with edges damaged by fire.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 58; TITUS: THT 58

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 75-76; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 90-91 notes 224

Translations

Carling 2000: a3 (160, 251); Thomas 1957: a3 (27)

Bibliography

Carling 2000

Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

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.

Thomas 1957

Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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.