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ГА 1177

Known as:	ГА 1177; ГД 1177 [Ching 2010]
Cite this page as:	"ГА 1177". 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-x1177 (accessed 06 Mar. 2026).
Provenience
Language and Script
Language:	TB
Text contents
Text genre:	Non-literary
Text subgenre:	Account
Verse/Prose:	prose
Object
Material:	ink on wood tablet
Number of lines:	4

Transliteration

a1	– ñe ·[ai] ma – [•] [sa] ṅka nts[e] ś[e] śu sa ·s· [re] ca ka nma 20 6 to ·i –
a2	sa ṅka ntse śe śu ya¯ ¯p ca ka nma 2 ·[o] wī 6
a3	[sa] ṅka n[ts]e śe śu we¯ ¯s̝ kuśā ni 100
a4	sa [ṅ]ka ntse śe śu wa [ā] ka ca ka nma 6 to wi 3
b1	ka pyā ri ya¯ ¯p m[e] ñ· – – – ma nt[e] – [k]·· m· 10 [4] to [wi] 6
b2	kṣu dra ysā re ca ka nma 2 to w[i] 8
b3	kṣ· d·· ya¯ ¯p [ca] [ka] [nma] [1] to w[i] 9

Transcription

a1	(me)ñe (n)aima(ñe) • saṅkantse śeśusa (y)s(ā)re cakanma 20-6 to(w)i –
a2	saṅkantse śeśu yap cakanma 2 (t)owī 6
a3	saṅkantse śeśuweṣ kuśāni 100
a4	saṅkantse śeśuwa āka cakanma 6 towi 3
b1	kapyāri yap meñ· – – – mante (ca)k(an)m(a) 10-4 towi 6
b2	kṣudrä ysāre cakanma 2 towi 8
b3	kṣ(u)d(rä) yap cakanma 1 towi 9

Translation

a1	[The 1st month. • The wheat eaten by the saṃgha:] 26 piculs, ... peck(s).
a2	The barley eaten by the saṃgha: 2 piculs, 6 [pecks].
a3	The kuśānes as the cost of food for the saṃgha: 100.
a4	The millet ā. eaten by the saṃgha: 6 piculs, 3 pecks.
b1	[The kapyāres] (have taken?) ... the monthly barley: [14] piculs, 6 pecks.
b2	Miscellaneous (expense of) wheat: 2 piculs, 8 pecks.
b3	[Miscellaneous] (expense of) barley: [1] [piculs], 9 pecks.

References

Edition

Ching 2010: 333-334; Ching 2013a: 36-37

Bibliography

Ching 2010

Ching, Chao-jung. 2010. “Secular documents in Tocharian: Buddhist economy and society in the Kucha region.” PhD, Paris: École Pratique des Hautes Études.

Ching 2013a

Ching, Chao-jung. 2013a. “Reanalyzing the Kuchean-Prākrit tablets THT4059, THT4062 and SI P/141.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 55–94.