YQ I.3

Known as:	YQ I.3; YQ 1.32
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Provenience
Main find spot:	Qigexing
Collection:	Xinjiang Museum (Ürümchi)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	classical
Text contents
Title of the work:	Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka
Passage:	Act 1.3
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Drama
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Meter:	M17; M14; M15
Object
Manuscript:	Yanqi
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	8

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Transliteration

a2	/// [r]· n· y· m· ta [p]r· k[ā] [ck]· ·k· sn· –
a3	/// tkmā[ṃ] ma ska¯ ¯r \|\| ti ṣye tra ṅka s̝sa¯ ¯s śkaṃ
a4	/// – [p]r· [ṣ]t· ā lu kā su ya tsi kka¯ ¯ts ā kā¯ ¯l naṃ pa
a5	/// ka y· rka¯ ¯nt wä rpnā tsi ā ṣā ni kma tta¯ ¯k : upā dhyāṃ bā dha riṃ nu pu¯ ¯k
a6	/// [¯t] m· na rkā śśi sne eṃ¯ ¯ts sne ṣṭa re pki¯ ¯s ā kla ṣśā stra ntu : pi wā ṣṣo kya k[ṣ]a
a7	/// ñcä¯ ¯s ya¯ ¯s̝ mā lye¯ ¯s knā nmā ñcä¯ ¯s ya¯ ¯s̝ kā rū ṇi kwra so¯ ¯m : ā pā ṣtu
a8	/// [ñi] ka rsi¯ ¯ñcä śā stra kra¯ ¯nt ti ri ce sma ksa¯ ¯m ṣtmā ṣi¯ ¯s̝ tmaṃ sne e¯ ¯ts : mā lyme¯ ¯s
b1	/// \|\| a ci te tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ ā lu kā su ya li smo saṃ ta s̝sa¯ ¯s mka lto pe nu pu
b2	/// ṣma dhya de śä s̝la¯ ¯cä ype ype yā wra sa śśi kā su ya tsi \|\| ji na kke naṃ \|\|
b3	/// smāṃ : ā pā ṣtune yä s̝tsa knā māṃ pā pṣu ne yaṃ s̝ta msa māṃ : sa ñce yä ntu wi
b4	/// ·[ā] rū ṇi¯ ¯k da kṣi nā pa¯ ¯thä ka lyme tā¯ ¯s̝ : 1 \|\| tṣaṃ pe nu pa lkāṃ¯ ¯t ā
b5	/// [l]· – [m]ā ta ppreṃ ka ṣṣi ño myo kuya lte • \|\| tsu ntaṃ \|\| ka ṣṣi
b6	/// [s]i ñcmā na ṣnā ka myo : tso pa¯ ¯ts pa lka s̝ka ṣṣi
b7	/// – ta s̝sa¯ ¯s klyo mme tra¯ ¯k śä kwe pi pu

Transcription

a2	/// r· n· y· m· täpr(eṃ) kāck· ·k· sn· –
a3	n1 /// (kā)tkmāṃ mäskär ॥

1a	tiṣye träṅkäṣ säs śkaṃ ; a4n2 11σ
1b	17σ /// –
1c	pr(a)ṣt(aṃ) ālu kāsu ; yatsikk ats ākāl n-äṃ ; pä a5n3 4σ
2a	6σ /// ; (pu)k«†ä» y(ä)rkant wärpnātsi ; āṣānik mättak :
2b	_upādhyāṃ bādhariṃ nu ; puk a6n4 10σ
2c	/// (päñ) (kän)t m(a)narkāśśi ; sne eṃts sne ṣṭare pkis ; ākläṣ śāsträntu :
2d	piwāṣṣ oky akṣaa7(räs)n5 n6 ; 11σ
3a	4σ /// ñcäs yaṣ ; m= ālyes knānmāñcäs yaṣ ; kārūṇik wrasom :
3b	āpāṣtua8(ne)n6 13σ
3c	1σ /// ñi kärsiñc śāsträ ; krant tiri cesm-äk säm ; ṣtmāṣiṣ tmaṃ sne ets :
3d	m= ālymes b1n7 15σ

	/// ॥ acite träṅkäṣ ālu kāsu yalis mosaṃ täṣ säs mkälto penu pu
b2	n8 /// ṣ madhyadeśäṣ läc ype ypeyā wrasaśśi kāsu yatsi ॥ jinakkenaṃ ॥
b3	n9

1a	13σ /// smāṃ :
1b	āpāṣt_uneyäṣ ; tsäknāmāṃ ; pāpṣuneyaṃ ; ṣtämsamāṃ :
1c	sañceyäntu ; wib4(käsmāṃ)n9 n10 8σ
1d	4σ /// ; (k)ārūṇik ; dakṣināpath ; kälyme tāṣ : 1 ॥

	tṣaṃ penu pälkāṃt ā…
b5	n11 n12 /// l· – mā täppreṃ käṣṣi ñomyo k_uyalte • ॥ tsuntaṃ ॥

1a	käṣṣi b6 13σ
1b	9σ /// siñc ; mā naṣ nākämyo :
1c	tsopats pälkäṣ ; käṣṣi b7n13 9σ

	/// – täṣ säs klyom metrak śäk we pi pu-
	-(klyi)

Translation

a1	....
a2+	... so much ... they were joyful.
a3	\|\| Tiṣya says:
a3+	This one too ...
a4	... (all) the time he has the wish to do good indeed for others.
a5	... to be honored in every way, the venerable one himself.
a5+	Now the teacher Bādhari in all (manner) ...
a6	... to all (five hundred) novices he teaches the Śāstras without attachment, without effort.
a6+	... as it were (the) syllables (?)
a7	... he makes ... (knowledgeable), he does not make ... knowledgeable, the compassionate being.
a7+	Unheededness ...
a8	... may ... they know; may he instruct them with respect to Śāstra and good behaviour. Then, without attachment, not ...
b1	\|\| Acita says:
b1+	For the sake of doing good for others he, being only small, discerned (?) that.
b2	... he left Madhyadeśa, in order to do good for the beings, from land to land.
b2+	\|\| In the Jinakke [tune] \|\|
b3	... Pulling away from unheededness, establishing in observance, driving away (?) the doubts ... ... the compassionate one will be headed in the direction of Dakṣināpatha.
b4	1 \|\|
b4+	At this point they even saw ...
b5	... not so much with the name of teacher. Because \|\| In the Tsunta (?) [tune] \|\|
b5+	Teacher ...
b6	they ... not with denigration and blame:
b6+	the great teacher shines ...
b7	... that: the noble Metrak, twelve years old, ...
b8	....

Other

b4	The compassionate one will be headed in the direction of Dakṣināpatha. (33) (Peyrot 2013b: 628)

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

	The commentary is adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 34.
n4	ṣṭare: sic! For ṣtare, the normal form.
n5	ñcäs: probably the final syllable of the same present participle which is attested later in the same line, obl. pl. knānmāñcäs.
n6	mālyes, mālymes: difficult form, containing probably the negation mā, with sandhi metri causa. The form ālymes is known as the equivalent of āñmes, āymes, gen. sg. of āñcäm ‘self’, cf. A 430: a6. In that case, the sequence mālyes would be another occurrence of original mālymes, either by phonetic dissimilation or by careless writing.
n7	The syllable at the end of this line one can restore to pu(täk), 3sg. preterite act. of the verb putk- ‘separate’, past participle putko.
n9	wikäs is probably a form of the verb wik- ‘drive away’, present participle wikäsmām, or the like.
n11	käṣṣi: according to the Old Uy. text, this substantive should be pl. nom., hence käṣṣiñä.

Parallel texts

	MaitrHami 1, 9-10

Remarks

	Lines a1 and b8 are entirely lost; of line a2, one sees only the lower part of some akṣaras.
	This fragment contains part of the first act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; an Uy. parallel is MaitrHami 1, 9a24-10a10f. See also Pinault 1999: 193-4.
	The translation and the following commentary are adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 34.

Philological commentary

n1	The disciple named Tiṣya is speaking: the parallel Old Uy. text starts at the bottom of the 9th leaf, recto, cf. MaitrHami 1, 9 a28–29 (cf. Ji et al. 1998: 18). The text is roughly a continuation of the dialogue between the disciples of the Brahmin Bādhari. Unfortunately, the reverse side of the 9th leaf and the recto of the 10th leaf in the Old Uy. Hami version are badly mutilated. Nevertheless, one can recognize enough passages to be sure of the identification.
n2	The text is similar to MaitrHami 1, 9 b1–2 (cf. Ji et al. 1998: 18).
n3	For the beginning of this line, cf. the corresponding passage in MaitrHami 1, 9 b2–3 (cf. Ji et al. 1998: 18). Up to the first line of the verso, the Tocharian text is versified, but the metre cannot be established with certainty. The line is probably to be completed as puk (wäknā)
n8	Cf. the corresponding passage in MaitrHami 1, 9 b23 (cf. Ji et al. 1998: 18). The jinakke tune is a stanza of 4 x 14 (7/7) syllables.
n10	palkāṃt_\: corrected after Schmidt 1999b: 281.
n12	For the beginning of this line, cf. the corresponding passage in MaitrHami 1, 10 a2–3 (cf. Ji et al. 1998: 18). The tsunta tune is probably a stanza of 4 x 15 (7/8 or 8/7) syllables.
n13	The restoration of the final compound is obvious. The rest of b8 is lost.

References

Edition

Ji et al. 1998

Translations

Meunier 2013: a4 (181), b2 (181); Peyrot 2013b: b4 (628)

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.

Meunier 2013

Meunier, Fanny. 2013. “Typologie des locutions en yām- du tokharien.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 123–85.

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.

Schmidt 1999b

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1999b. “Review of: Fragments of the Tocharian A Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka of the Xinjiang Museum, China.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 8: 277–85.

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