THT 605
| Known as: | THT 605; B 605; Bleistiftnummer 2121 |
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| Cite this page as: | Michaël Peyrot. "THT 605". 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-tht605 (accessed 27 Jul. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Michaël Peyrot |
| Date of online publication: | 2014-09 |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 75.2 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA; TB |
| Linguistic stage: | classical |
| Add. linguistic characteristics: | late; hypercorrect |
| Script: | classical |
Text contents | |
| Title of the work: | dvādaśākṣarī |
| Passage: | 6 |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Text subgenre: | Syllabary |
| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | THT 1128-1130 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Size (h × w): | 6.0 × 30.1 cm |
| Number of lines: | 4 |
| Interline spacing: | 1.5 cm |
Images
Images from idp.bbaw.de by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project Berlin, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| lf | – |
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| a1 | ṣca ṣña rṣa ṣṛ ṣṝ ṣa¯ ¯m• ṣa ḥ sa sya sra sla sva sma sta sna sṇa sca s[ñ]a rsa sṛ sṝ sa¯ ¯m• sa ḥ ha hya hra hla hva hma /// |
| a2 | hna hṇa hca hña rha hṛ ○ hṝ ha¯ ¯m• ha ḥ wa wya wra wla wva wma wta wna wṇa wca wña rwa wṛ wṝ wa¯ ¯m• wa [ḥ] |
| a3 | tsa tsya tsra tsla tsva tsma ○ tsta tsna tsṇa tsca tsña rtsa tsṛ tsṝ tsa¯ ¯m• tsa ḥ ttsa ttsya ttsra ttsla ttsva ttsma ttsta ttsna tt[s](·)a |
| a4 | ttsca ttsña rttsa ttsṛ ttsṝ ttsa¯ ¯m• ttsa ḥ || sa¯ ¯s• śä kwe pi¯ ¯nt• a mo¯ ¯k pi ktsi pa pyu ta¯ ¯k• • || || |
| b1 | || ce a mo ka nta dha rma ca ndre yā tka pai ka tsi pa ññ[ä] [k]t[a] ññe p[e] rne ṣṣe a kā lksa ce ca me¯ ¯l ṣṣe na ña tse nta wi ko [y](·)· |
| b2 | rne ṣa mā ñña na kre ntau ○ na tsmo yeṃ ta rne • cme lne saṃ sā rne spo rto ma ne mā lle mā ṣtā ko¯ ¯ymä • ti kṣne [nd]ri |
| b3 | tā ko¯ ¯ymä ce kre¯ ¯nt yā ○ mo rsa mai tre ye mpa śi lyme e ṣe tā ko¯ ¯ymä • ta rya pi ṭa ka nta pi ṅke ma ne tā ko |
| b4 | ¯ymä • se ce a mo¯ ¯k a klyi ye ntra po pa ññä kte tā ko yeṃ : • || || ce sa¯ ¯s a mo ka¯ ¯s to ṅki tsā [e]¯ ¯l wä¯ ¯s • |
Transcription
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| a1 | ṣca ṣña rṣa ṣṛ ṣṝ ṣam ṣaḥ sa sya sra sla sva sma sta sna sṇa sca sña rsa sṛ sṝ sam saḥ ha hya hra hla hva hma (hta) |
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| a2 | hna hṇa hca hña rha hṛ hṝ ham haḥ wa wya wra wla wva wma wta wna wṇa wca wña rwa wṛ wṝ wam waḥ |
| a3 | tsa tsya tsra tsla tsva tsma tsta tsna tsṇa tsca tsña rtsa tsṛ tsṝ tsam tsaḥ ttsa ttsya ttsra ttsla ttsva ttsma ttsta ttsna tts(ṇ)a |
| a4 | n1n2n3 ttsca ttsña rttsa ttsṛ ttsṝ ttsam ttsaḥ ॥ säs śäkwepint amok piktsi papyutäk • ॥ ॥ |
| b1 | n4n5n6 ॥ ce amokänta dharmacandre yātka paikatsi paññäktaññe perneṣṣe akālksa ce camelṣṣena ñatsenta wikoy(ntä)- |
| b2 | -r-nen7 ṣamāññana krentauna tsmoyeṃtär-ne • cmelne saṃsārne sportomane mālle mā ṣ tākoym • tikṣnendri |
| b3 | n8 tākoym ce krent yāmorsa maitreyempa śilyme eṣe tākoym • tarya piṭakänta piṅkemane tāko- |
| b4 | -ymn9n10n11 • se ce amok aklyiyenträ po paññäkte tākoyeṃ : • ॥ ॥ cesäs amokäs toṅkitsā el wäs • |
Translation
| a4 | ... || This twelfth art has been finished writing. || || |
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| b1 | These arts Dharmacandra has ordered to write. May through [his] wish for the Buddha worth the dangers of this birth disappear for him! |
| b2 | May the monastic virtues grow for him! May I in [this] birth, in this turning saṃsāra, no longer be mālle, may I have sharp senses! |
| b3 | May I through this good deed come together with Maitreya! May I be writing the three piṭakas! |
| b4 | Who may learn this art, may they all become Buddhas! || || These arts Toṅkitsā has given as a gift. |
Commentary
Remarks
| The leaf is almost complete; only a small strip at the right is lost. The recto contains the end of the dvādaśākṣarī including the closing formula in Tocharian A; the fact that the leaf number is found on the recto confirms that this was the last leaf of the manuscript. The verso is filled with pious wishes in another hand, in Tocharian B, but with many mistakes. The verso ends with a phrase in Tocharian A again, in yet another hand. As THT 1128 is leaf number 9, this should be leaf number 11. A leaf number seems to be found in the left margin of the recto, but it is illegible. |
Philological commentary
| piṅkemane tākoym: this construction is peculiar. If not a calque, it might simply be a mistake. | |
| n1 | : With || säs śäkwepint amok piktsi papyutäk • || the dvādaśākṣarī text ends. śäkwepint 'twelfth' may refer to the text type of the dvādaśākṣarī instead of the actual number of sections, since this text seems to have only 6 sections. Otherwise, the twelve sections may have been subdivided into two larger sections of each 6 subsections. |
| n2 | säs śäkwepint amok piktsi papyutäk: The phrase literally means 'This twelve art has come about [through/ in] writing' (cf. Schmidt 1974: 494, who translates "Das Schreiben dieser zwölften [Schreib]kunst ist beendet." [wtl. "Diese zwölfte Kunst ist zustande gekommen, geschrieben zu werden."). |
| n3 | || ||: After these two double daṇḍas, the rest of the line is empty. |
| n4 | paññäktaññe: for expected paññäktäññe, pañäktäññe. |
| n5 | ce amokänta: if ce modifies amokänta, the correct form would have been toṃ or toyna. Therefore, Sieg and Siegling 1953: 387 proposes to read ce as kucein the sense 'because'. However, a demonstrative would seem to be expected and in view of all the mistakes in this text it may well have been meant to be used so. |
| n6 | camel\ṣṣena: the remarkable l\in the middle of this word may be due to a form cmeläṣṣana (Sieg and Siegling 1953: 387); the expected form is cmelṣana. |
| n7 | mālle: Adams 2013a: 483 suggests 'dull'. |
| n8 | śilyme: a writing error for śmilye, in turn probably somehow a late form of vn śmalñe 'coming'. In any case, the correct order would be maitreyempa eṣe śilyme tākoym, cf. PK AS 4A b3 aknātsaimpa ṣe śmalyñe mā ñī tākoī'may there be no coming together with a fool for me!'. Note in addition the expected 3sg. verb in the latter example, as against the peculiar 1sg. in our text. |
| n9 | paññäkte: for paññäkti, pañäkti. |
| n10 | se: for kuse. |
| n11 | : • ||: Sieg and Siegling 1953: 387 read : 1 ||, but the preceding lines are hardly metrical. If we base ourselves on the punctuation marks and leave out the first sentence, which is 47 syllables, the remaining four lines are 14, 20, 12 and 15 syllables respectively. Even if these were meant to imitate a 4-line poem, they cannot be analysed as such. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Peyrot 2008 | CL |
| Tamai 2011 | C1 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 387; Sieg and Siegling 1921
Translations
Hackstein 1995: b1 (133); Krause 1952: b4 (129); TEB II: b4 (61); Peyrot 2013b: b4 (706); Schmidt 1974: a4 (494 and n.2), b1 b2 (113f, 116); Sieg and Siegling 1921: b4; Thomas 1954: b1 (731); Thomas 1957: b1 b2 (225), b4 (154); Thomas 1969b: b1 (54); Thomas 1997: b4 (104)
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