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YQ I.10
| Known as: | YQ I.10; YQ 1.1 |
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| Cite this page as: | "YQ I.10". 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-yqi10 (accessed 05 May 2024). |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Qigexing |
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| Collection: | Xinjiang Museum (Ürümchi) |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TA |
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| Script: | classical |
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Text contents |
| Title of the work: | Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka |
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| Passage: | Act 1.10 |
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| Text genre: | Literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Drama |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
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| Meter: | M21_21_18_13 |
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Object |
| Manuscript: | Yanqi |
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| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Number of lines: | 8 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// [k]ā¯ ¯k bā rā ṇa sri yä ṣmā ga¯ ¯t ype |
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| a2 | /// – ntwa(·) ymā[ṃ] pā ṣā na kṣu laṃ ye¯ ¯s̝ tmaṃ tā pa¯ ¯rk ñä |
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| a3 | /// – ytu yo spa nto tri i me ntwā śśi ṣtmā ṣlu ne ytu |
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| a4 | /// [s]ka ntra || ta mka klyu ṣu ra¯ ¯s̝ bā dha ri brā hmaṃ pā ṣā na kṣu |
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| a5 | /// ¯s̝ mñe ka rṣto • ta rmmāṃ ka pśi ñño klo pa suṃ tsāṃ wa śe nyo śe rtmāṃ tra |
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| a6 | /// [ga] ti naṃ || wra ske mo ko ne wla lu ne wi ka ssi nä¯ ¯s̝ pa pa lyke pla ślu ne ytu |
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| a7 | /// ·[ā] ytsi cä mpa mo : lo ksa mka ṣṣi klo pa ntwä¯ ¯s̝ tsa lpṣa¯ ¯nt mā ca¯ ¯m lkā lṣyā kā |
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| a8 | /// lla smā¯ ¯r : 1 || ñkä¯ ¯t tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ bā dha ri ma rklo pa su na¯ ¯s̝t mā ptā ñka tka ṣyā¯ ¯p |
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| b1 | /// blank syo ā rki śo ṣi ntu ā su kka tko ra ṣwai ne ṣi |
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| b2 | /// blank kā ruṃ ka lko • kṣa ṇaṃ sa rki ñco wai ne ṣi nāṃ |
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| b3 | /// blank lna sa lna¯ ¯s̝t ta preṃ we wñu ra¯ ¯s̝ tmā kna ka¯ ¯t || |
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| b4 | /// blank wo ne ytu o pyā¯ ¯cä klā lu ne yo wṣe lu |
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| b5 | /// blank ca ndre sra ri twu¯ ¯nt mai tre ya sa mi ti nā ṭkaṃ bā |
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| b6 | /// blank nu ni pā¯ ¯t ā¯ ¯r || ca¯ ¯s̝ po sta¯ ¯k yä lmi |
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| b7 | /// blank ktsi wo ta¯ ¯k • kā ṣṣa¯ ¯r ka lyā na gau ta miṃ ñcä¯ |
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| b8 | /// ·[ā] kco¯ ¯r śkaṃ po¯ ¯ñśä tā ki ma¯ ¯s ptā ñkta¯ ¯ñä || |
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Transcription
Translation
| a1+ |
all the way from the city of Vārāṇāsi (to) the Māgadha country |
| a2 |
... going he went to the Pāṣāṇaka Hill. |
| a2+ |
Here now (by gods) ... |
| a3+ |
... with the ..., relying on the three Smṛtyupasthānas, ... |
| a4 |
... |
| a4+ |
... || Having heard this, Bādhari the Brahim ... (of) the Pāṣāṇaka Hill ... |
| a5+ |
... hope cut off. With his body trembling, with a sorrowful voice and weeping he says: |
| a6 |
... (In the ...gati [tune].) || |
| a6+ |
In order to remove sickness, old age, and death, I practiced austerities, |
| a7 |
... unable to go. Far away is the teacher who frees from sorrows. |
| a7+ |
The wish to see him (is) not (fulfilled). |
| a8 |
1. || |
| a8 |
... I will die (without being able to see the Buddha-god the teacher.) The god says: Bādhari, do not be sorrowful. |
| a8+ |
It is not (in the nature) of the Buddha-god the teacher (to be far away). |
| b1 |
( |
| b1+ |
... having passed through (innumerable) worlds, he will come) to his devotees ... |
| b2+ |
... having shown mercy, after an instant, the devotees’ ... |
| b3 |
You have to be (confident). Having spoken in this way, right away (the god) disappeared. |
| b3+ |
(recollecting the Buddha’s) virtues, (Bādhari spent) the night ... |
| b5+ |
In the Maitreyasamiti-Nātaka, composed by (the Vaibhāṣika Arya)-candra, (called) ‘Bādhari (the Brahmin’s performing a sacrifice’) ... the (first) act has come to an end. |
| b6+ |
|| This book ... ordered (to copy). |
| b7 |
. |
| b7+ |
Kāṣṣar Kalyāna Gautami (?) ... ... and ... āk the čor. |
| b8 |
May we all become Buddhas! || |
Other
Commentary
Linguistic commentary
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The commentary is adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 66. |
| n1 |
Here only ñä is left. According to MaitrHami 1, 16 a21-22, Buddha-god was worshipped by gods and men. Therefore, ñä must be in some way associated with ñkät, maybe the beginning of the obl. pl. ñäktas. |
| n2 |
ime, equal to Skt. smṛti-; ṣtmāṣlune, verbal substantive for the causative of käly- “to stand”. These two words give the translation of Skt. smṛty- upasthāna-, Chinese nianchu.There are four smṛtyupasthānāni. Cf. MaitrHami 1, 16 a20-21. |
| n5 |
Read (wä)lläsmār, complete form, 1st sg. middle of the present of wäl- “to die”. Cf. MaitrHami 1, 16 b6f. |
| n6 |
korisyo, so to be completed: “by myriads” (Skt. koṭi-), cf. “numberless” in the Uy. translation. |
| n8 |
kṣaṇaṃ must mean: “in no time”, “in a trice”, in German “im Nu”; loanword from Skt. kṣaṇa. The Uy. version, MaitrHami 1, 16 b14f, reads: “After showing mercy to the devotees, the Buddha-god instantly came back to his original residence.” |
Parallel texts
Remarks
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Only two third of the recto side are covered with writing, the leftmost third is left blank. There is a vertical decoration running from top to bottom at the start of the lines, seemingly with an akṣara ‹ktoṃ› on top. This decoration is indicated with an "X" in the transliteration, but it is not indicated in the transcription. A similar decoration recurs in another manuscript, in A 226 b, colophon of a chapter of the Maitreyāvadānavyākaraṇa), where there are two columns, with a blank space in between. The lines of the text start to the left of the blank space and continue on the right. Here in our text, we have only the right-end column. Every line looks as if it were complete, but in fact there must be something more, because grammatically the sentence is not complete. Unfortunately we cannot find the continuation anywhere. |
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This fragment contains part of the first act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; an Uy. parallel is MaitrHami I, 16a14-16b (end). Lines b5-6 contain the colophon of act I. See also Pinault 1999: 193-4. |
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The translation and the following commentary are adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 66. |
Philological commentary
| n3 |
pāṣānak ṣulis: so to be completed. According to MaitrHami 1, 16 a25-27, Bādhari was disappointed at the great distance to Pāṣāṇaka Hill. |
| n4 |
gatinaṃ: stanza of probably 21 (8/7/6) + 21 (id.) + 18 (9/9) + 13 (7/6) syllables. Therefore, the name of the tune should be restored as pañcagatinaṃ, see YQ II.3: b5. |
| n7 |
X: a vertical decoration; see also the remarks above. |
| n9 |
kälko: according to MaitrHami 1, 16 b13-14: “After showing mercy to numberless beings.” |
| n10 |
According to MaitrHami 1, 16 b25: “Bādhari wept the whole night through”. The German translation of Tekin 1980: 54, Tafel 14: “In dem er (Tag) und Nacht weinte” is surely wrong. |
| n11 |
cor is identical to čor, Chinese (pinyin) chuò (Giles, Karlgren [295c] cho = pinyin zhuò), a Turkish title. |
References
Edition
Ji et al. 1998
Translations
Peyrot 2013b: a8 (234, 243), a8 (234, 243)
Bibliography
Ji et al. 1998
Ji, Xianlin, Werner Winter, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 1998. Fragments of the Tocharian A Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka of the Xinjiang Museum, China. Transliterated, translated and annotated by Ji Xianlin in collaboration with Werner Winter, Georges-Jean Pinault. TLSM 113. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Peyrot 2013b
Peyrot, Michaël. 2013b. The Tocharian subjunctive. A study in syntax and verbal stem formation. Vol. 8. Brill’s Studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
Pinault 1999
Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1999. “Restitution du Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka en tokharien A: Bilan provisoire et recherches complémentaires sur l’acte XXVI.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 8: 189–240.
Tekin 1980
Tekin, Şinasi. 1980. Maitrisimit nom bitig. Die uigurische Übersetzung eines Werkes der buddhistischen Vaibhāṣika-Schule. 1. Teil: Transliteration, Übersetzung, Anmerkungen. 2. Teil: Analytischer und rückläufiger Index. Schriften zur Geschichte und Kultur des Alten Orients, Berliner Turfantexte, IX. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
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