THT 87.b

Known as:	THT 87.b; B 87; Bleistiftnummer 2233; Toch 536
Cite this page as:	Michaël Peyrot. "THT 87.b". 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-tht87b (accessed 27 May 2024).
Edition
Editor:	Michaël Peyrot
Provenience
Main find spot:	Shorchuk
Expedition code:	T III Š 101
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Linguistic stage:	classical
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Araṇemijātaka
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Jātaka/Avadāna
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Object
Manuscript:	Araṇemi α
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī

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

a3	/// [m]·· • \|\| ya ·e ///
a4	/// – ññ[ai] tta śle [k]·· ///
a5	/// uyke po ///
a6	/// – ṣṣi • la ś[o] – ///
b1	/// stra \|\| tu meṃ ///
b2	/// [m]·¯ ¯r pa swa ke ñi¯ – ///
b3	/// wā te ne keṃ tsa klā ya \|\| ///
b4	/// – pka nte (–) – • e ///

Transcription

a3	/// m·· • ॥ ya ·e ///
a4	/// – ññaittä śle k·· ///
a5	/// _u yke-po(stäṃ) ///
a6	/// – ṣṣi • laśo – ///
b1	/// strä ॥ tumeṃ ///
b2	/// m·r päs wake ñi(ś) ///
b3	n1 /// (mai)wāte-ne keṃtsa klāya ॥ ///
b4	/// – pkante – – • e ///

Translation

a3	...
a4	... likewise ...
a5	... one after the other ...
a6	...
b1	... Thereupon ...
b2	... away ? me ...
b3	...(qui)vered [and] fell to the ground \|\|
b4	...

Commentary

Philological commentary

	This fragment and THT 87.a (leaf 20 of the Š-manuscript) directly follow THT 85, and are in turn followed by THT 88.
n1	: cf. THT 85 b5 nte pit maiwātene k(eṃ)tsa klāya •

Remarks

	In one frame with THT 87.a; not published in Sieg and Siegling 1953.

Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications

Tamai 2011	C5
Tamai 2011	C14

References

Online access

IDP: THT 87b; TITUS: THT 87

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.

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