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THT 59

Known as:	THT 59; B 59
Cite this page as:	Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 59". 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-tht59 (accessed 09 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Hannes A. Fellner
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Expedition code:	T III Š 98 Frg
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
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

Images

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

Transliteration

a1	/// [l]ñ· k[au] sa sū ///
a2	/// ·s· [wai] ke ce¯ ¯u re – ///
a3	/// [ya] [ma] st[ra] 60-1 ce [w]·· ///
b2	/// [ne] yo lo : pū ri [k]· ///
b3	/// po ca mpaṃ we [nts]· ///
b4	/// [v]ā r[g]ä ///

Transcription

61d	a1/// lñ· kausa sū /// a2/// ·s· waike ceu re(ki) /// a3/// yamasträ 60-1
Xx	ce w·· /// b2/// ne yolo :

	pūrik· ·///
b3	/// po campäṃ wents· ///
b4	/// vārgä ///

Translation

a1	...
a2	... this lie and words ...
a3	... he dies [61] ...
b2	... bad ... Pūrika ...
b3	... all he is able to say ...
b4	...

Commentary

Philological commentary

	Only one strophe number (61). Recto/verso side and metre are not determinable. In b2 Pūrika is mentioned, in b4 we may have a fragment of a chapter caption.

Remarks

	The original manuscript is missing, but was a small fragment.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 59; TITUS: THT 59

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 76; Sieg and Siegling 1983: 91 notes 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.”