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THT 70.a

Known as:THT 70.a; B 70; Bleistiftnummer 3349
Cite this page as:Michaël Peyrot; Hannes A. Fellner. "THT 70.a". 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-tht70a (accessed 18 Sep. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Michaël Peyrot; Hannes A. Fellner

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 92.50
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Udānālaṅkāra
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Doctrine
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:Udānālaṅkāra A/B
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Size (h × w):14 × 6 cm
Number of lines:7

Images

Transliteration

a1/// – [l]ks· tta ṅka ñi[¯] [¯ś] ///
a2/// kl· lkā [ṣ]ly· 9 ///
a3/// [ts]ai ñe ntsa y· ///
a4/// ke ktse¯ – ///
a5/// ·o¯ ¯r – ·[o] ///
a6/// [ta] pa [t]ri śne ñ· ·n· ·l· – ///
a7/// (–) o l·o – ·ā ///
b1/// (–) ·p· ·s̝· – [m]· [s]ra ///
b2/// ne [s]tmau sū [:] – (–) [s]a – ///
b3/// – ·[n]tmā ///
b4/// [y]· rmmā ·e·(·) ///
b5/// – ka rtse ci ///
b6/// – – ṣle 10 – – ///
b7/// – ¯k a śa lle 10 ///

Transcription

9da1/// – lks= ·ttaṅka ñiś /// a2/// kl· lkāṣly· 9
Xx/// a3/// tsaiñentsa /// a4/// kektse(ñ) /// a5/// ·or·o /// a6/// tapatriśne ñ· ·n· ·l· – /// a7/// – ol·o·ā /// b1/// ·p· ·ṣ· srä /// b2/// ne stmau :
10d– – sa – /// b3/// ·n tmā /// b4/// y·rm ·e – /// b5/// – kartse ci /// b6/// – ṣle 10
10d– – /// b7/// – k aśalle 10

Translation

a1...
a2... 9 ...
a3...
a4... body ...
a5...
a6... to the thirty-three gods ...
a7...
b1...
b2... having stood ...
b3...
b4... extent ...
b5... good ...
b6... 10 ...
b7... to be lead 10 ...

Commentary

Remarks

Belongs to a collection of small, badly preserved fragments. Extracts from this fragment were edited by Sieg and Siegling 1949: I, 80 as THT 70.1–4.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011C2
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 70a; TITUS: THT 70

Miscellaneous

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.

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.