THT 94
| Known as: | THT 94; B 94; Bleistiftnummer 2326 |
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| Cite this page as: | Melanie Malzahn. "THT 94". 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-tht94 (accessed 11 Dec. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Melanie Malzahn |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 93.13 |
| 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 |
| Meter: | 4343 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | Araṇemi α |
| Preceding fragment: | THT 93 |
| Following fragment: | THT 95 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
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Transliteration
(continues from THT 93)
| a1 | sa ptā rka śco nai wro ccu wlo /// |
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| a2 | te ra¯ ¯mt yā mṣa te¯ ¯ñä kra /// |
| a3 | śka ka ma¯ ¯s̝ kle śa nm[a][¯] [¯][ts•] [p](·) /// |
| a4 | śle wi tsa kai pa¯ ¯stä nke ma /// |
| a5 | te me ñce e tte (–) lyñe ne /// |
| a6 | /// ṣke || a /// |
| lf | 40 5 |
| b1 | /// cce pi l[k](·) /// |
| b2 | śpā lmeṃ tsai [ñ](·) (–) sa [p]ī ta /// |
| b3 | mai nta brā hma ṇeṃ kau tsi [wa] /// |
| b4 | mu khe wa lo a ra ṇe miṃ /// |
| b5 | s̝pa la ntu ñña na yä rke [nta] /// |
| b6 | pā ka rtse ltu ṣa ñya po /// |
(continues on THT 95)
Transcription
(continues from THT 93)
| lf | 40-5 |
| 1a | a1n1 °sa ; ptārka śconai ; wroccu wlo |
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| 1b | /// 14σ |
| 1c | 14σ |
| 1d | (akālkäṣṣe) ; (retke) (no) ; (were) a2n2 te ramt ; yāmṣate-ñ |
| 2a | krä(tājñeṣṣi) ; (preri) (cai) ; (aunar-ñ) (räskre) ; (arañcne) |
| 2b | (añmalāṣlñe) ; (orotstse) ; (sū) (ñiś) (klāte) ; (ce) (ykene) |
| 2c | (lkāskau) (śaiṣṣe) ; (tallānto) ; (o)a3ś kakamaṣ ; kleśanmats |
| * | p(ūdñäkte) /// (ṅke) (ñäś) |
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| a4 | śle witsakai päst nkema(r) /// |
| a5 | temeñce ette (ya)lyñene /// |
| a6 | n3n4 /// °ṣke ॥ a° /// |
| b1 | /// (pärmaṅkä)cce pilk(osa) /// |
| b2 | n5 śpālmeṃ tsaiñ(enta)sa pīta(ntse) /// |
| b3 | mai nta brāhmaṇeṃ kautsi wa° /// (candra)¬ |
| b4 | mukhe walo araṇemiṃ /// |
| b5 | ṣpä lantuññana yärkenta /// (a)¬ |
| b6 | pākärtse ltu ṣañ yapo(yne) /// |
(continues on THT 95)
Translation
(continues from THT 93)
| a1 | ... let go off hate, great king! ... |
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| a1+ | (And the army of wishing into a [mere] odour) had been turned by me. |
| a2 | Gra(teful arrows have struck me painfully in my heart. This great compassion has brought me to this place. |
| a2+ | I see the miserable world [that]) has been brought under the control of the Kleśas. |
| a3 | [As a] Bu(ddha) ... |
| a3+ | (now) it will be (me) [who] will perish with the root. |
| a4 | ... |
| a5 | therefore in the (go)ing-downwards ... |
| a6 | ... |
| b1 | (with a hope)ful (?) glance ... |
| b2 | with the most excellent ornam(ents) ... (of the) price (?) ... |
| b3 | (by no) means I (intended??) to kill the Brahmin ... |
| b3+ | king (Candra)mukha to (king) Araṇemi ... |
| b5 | and ... royal distinctions ... |
| b5+ | visible [for all (?)] he has gone away [and] (returned (?) to) his own land. ... |
(continues on THT 95)
Other
| a2 | Mit der Kraft des Mitleids habe ich die Festung des Denkens bezwungen. Die Macht [wtl. Heer] des Wunsches aber ist so etwa von mir zum [bloßen] Geruch gemacht worden. (Schmidt 1974: 263-4) |
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| a2+ | wurde .... von mir zum [bloßen] Geruch gemacht (Schmidt 1974: 230) |
| b4+ | wurde .... von mir zum [bloßen] Geruch gemacht (Schmidt 1974: 230) |
Commentary
Parallel texts
| IOL Toch 69, PK NS 36 and 20 |
Philological commentary
| The restorations are based on the parallels. The translation basically follows Schmidt 2001: 324 and 326. | |
| According to Schmidt, it is possible that the last words already belong to the end of the jātaka storyline. About 30 syllables are missing from there to the end of the line. They would easily hold the introduction of the end of the jātaka (about 20 syllables), missing from the beginning of THT 95. However, the possibility that there is a gap of one or even more leaves between this fragment and THT 95 cannot be rejected with certainty. | |
| We have a meter of 4 x 14 (7/7) syllables. | |
| n1 | The proposal by Sieg/Siegling to restore (tu)sa is uncertian, the more since ptārka starts a new colon. |
| n2 | Schmidt 2001: 325, fn. 142 argues that krätājñeṣṣi here means "rachsüchtig" (< "der (empfangenen Übel)taten eingedenk") instead of "grateful", which indeed seems to make more sense on first glance, but the fact remains that Skt. kṛtajña- has the positive meaning "grateful" < "mindful of former [good] deeds", and it highly unlikely that the Tocharians interpreted the form in the opposite sense. |
| n3 | Schmidt 2001: 326 seems to restore a(raṇemi). |
| n4 | Schmidt 2001: 326, fn. 147 proposes to restore (mā pkā)mai at the beginning of the line. |
| n5 | Schmidt 2001: 326 seems to restore a genitive pīta(ntse) (with question mark) from pito "price", which is possible but uncertain. |
Alternative linguistic/paleographic classifications
| Tamai 2011 | C5 |
| Tamai 2011 | C14 |
References
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1953: 31-32
Translations
Meunier 2013: b5 b6 (141); Peyrot 2013b: a4 (295); Schmidt 1974: a2 (263f), a2 (263-4), a2 + b4 (230), b4 + a2 (230); Schmidt 2001: a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 b6 (325-326); Sieg and Siegling 1983: a1 (248), a2 (248); Thomas 1968: a2 (203); Thomas 1993: a3 (192)
Bibliography
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Meunier, Fanny. 2013. “Typologie des locutions en yām- du tokharien.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 123–85.
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Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
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