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THT 72

Known as:THT 72; B 72
Cite this page as:"THT 72". 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-tht72 (accessed 11 Feb. 2026).

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Expedition code:T III Š 64
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TB
Linguistic stage:classical
Script:classical

Text contents

Title of the work:Lakṣaṇa-Buddhastotra
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Buddhastotra
Verse/Prose:verse

Object

Manuscript:Araṇemi α
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

Images

Transliteration

a1illegible
a2/// [p]lu ṣteṃ la re yo¯ ¯k ka ru ntsa s̝pa k· ///
a3/// ·[e] [m]ai kne : a wā ska cca ra¯ ¯mt ysā ṣ[ṣa] ///
a4/// tyai ko ṣy[ai] to ṣkre ntau na¯ ¯ts • śi la ///
a5/// ne ysā ṣṣi maṃ ta¯ ¯ñä klau ts[n]e ///
a6/// ntaṃ – [o] [n]·· [ñ]e ·i – [t]e ·[e] ///

Transcription

a1///
a2/// pluṣteṃ lare yok karuntsa ṣpä ///
a3/// (ṣ)emaikne : awāskacca ramt ysāṣṣa ///
a4/// t yaikoṣ yaitoṣ krentaunatsśila ///
a5/// ne ysāṣṣi maṃtañ klautsne ///
a6/// ntaṃon··ñe ·ite·e ///

Commentary

Remarks

*In one frame with THT 80 und THT 1684. Verso of the leaf directly preceding THT 73, so originally leaf 2 of the manuscript. For the original recto, see THT 71.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011C5
Tamai 2011C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 72; TITUS: THT 72

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1953

Translations

Hackstein 1995: a3 (198)

Bibliography

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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.