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THT 616

Known as:THT 616; B 616; Tintennummer 3319.31; X 31
Cite this page as:"THT 616". 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-tht616 (accessed 15 Feb. 2025).

Provenience

Main find spot:Unknown
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Life of the Buddha
Passage:Encounter with the dead
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:prose; verse

Object

Manuscript:THT 609-616
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6=8

Images

Transliteration

a1/// [e] ṅwe tā k[o] ///
a2/// [•] ko ka lpa nta [nts]e ///
b5/// – – dā yi || [o] [mno] ///
b6/// (·)ma tma ne nma ///

Transcription

a1n1 /// eṅwe tāko ///
a2/// • kokalpäntantse ///
b5/// – – dāyiom no ///
b6/// ·ma tmanenma ///

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

n1eṅwe for eṅkwe.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011C3
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 616; TITUS: THT 616

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953: 393

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.