YQ I.5

Known as:	YQ I.5; YQ 1.17
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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 1.5
Text genre:	Literary
Text subgenre:	Drama
Verse/Prose:	prose; verse
Meter:	5555 (1x), 444343 (1x), 55 (1x), 4443 (1x); 665 (4x)
Object
Manuscript:	Yanqi
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	8

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Transliteration

a1	/// ka lka¯ ¯m ymā¯ ¯r bā dha riṃ brā mna
a2	/// ·g· k· tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ to¯ ¯s̝ u pā dhyā ywa ṣtu tsa lpi
a3	/// ·[ra]· ka [ṣ]p· ṣtu klyo¯ ¯m śla ma na rkā¯ ¯s ṣñi ā wā sa¯ ¯cä na ṣpa
a4	/// – ṣw[e] wñu ra s̝la¯ ¯cä śla wa rtsi klyo mme tra¯ ¯k \|\| tma¯ ¯s̝ ni rdha ne
a5	/// ·[u] [ra]¯ ¯s̝ tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ hai tā a śśi ta¯ ¯s̝ e¯ ¯l e se¯ ¯ñcä \|\| tma¯ ¯s̝ o ṅkaṃ pa lko ra
a6	/// ṣku¯ ¯cä tra ṅka¯ ¯t^• \|\| ni rdha ne tra ṅka s̝sa mne ta¯ ¯s̝ \|\| o ṅktra ṅka ṣku¯ ¯s \|\| ni rdha ne tra
a7	/// – hai tā lo kuciṃ na¯ ¯s̝t a śśi ta lke māṃ ñe o kā¯ ¯k tra ṅktsi mā ka rsnā¯ ¯t \|\| ni rdha ne
a8	/// [dh]ya de śa [ṣ]i tā¯ ¯t sne pa rnä kka¯ ¯ts na¯ ¯s̝t kuya lte \|\| sa ma kko re naṃ \|\| ṣa kka tstsa śśi tu
b1	/// ·[ā] swo ne ka klyu ṣu na¯ ¯s̝t mā tu ṅkna śśi me tra knaṃ ta myo tṣaṃ mā ka kmu ṣe¯ ¯t : śä
b2	/// ka kmu¯ ¯s̝ lkā tsi klyo ma¯ ¯nt me tra kaṃ : 1 \|\| ni rdha ne tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ ku sne bā dha ri brā
b3	/// ·[ā] hai tā lo ṣo kyo nu ca¯ ¯m ype ṣiṃ kā rā śaṃ ā nā ntā pā śo¯ ¯l śā wā¯ ¯s̝t
b4	/// sa¯ ¯s̝t • na śśi nu pa rno re śkā ku cne tu ca¯ ¯s̝ ype yaṃ ye¯ ¯t tā ne klyo mme
b5	/// l[ke] mā ññe la me • ku sne sa¯ ¯m tmaṃ pyā ka¯ ¯s̝ lkā ta rsa mca ṣta
b6	/// [ma] ka t·a naṃ wa ṣtu ne¯ ¯ñcä pu kta ṣta lke mā ññe sa¯ ¯s \|\| va ñśa
b7	/// – ni ṣpa ltu e ṣā¯ ¯r sne eṃ¯ ¯ts e ṣā¯ ¯r puki¯ ¯s e ṣā¯ ¯r
b8	/// r·o lo ā rta lke sa¯ ¯m : 1 \|\| ta myo tṣaṃ e

Transcription

a1	n1 /// kalkam ymār bādhariṃ brāmna¬
a2	(c) /// (paiṅ)g(i)k(e) träṅkäṣ toṣ upādhyāy waṣtu tsälpi¬
a3	(ñc) /// (t)rä(ṅ)käṣ p(i)ṣ tu klyom śla manarkās ṣñi āwāsac näṣ pa¬
a4	(rmā)n2 /// (tä)ṣ wewñuräṣ läc śla wartsi klyom metrak ॥ tmäṣ nirdhane
a5	/// (kakm)uräṣ träṅkäṣ hai tā aśśi täṣ el eseñc ॥ tmäṣ oṅkaṃ pälkorä¬
a6	(ṣ) /// (träṅkä)ṣ kuc träṅkät ॥ nirdhane träṅkäṣ sämne täṣ ॥ oṅk träṅkäṣ kus ॥ nirdhane trä¬
a7	(ṅkäṣ)n3 n4 /// – hai tālo k_uciṃ naṣt aśśi talke māṃñe okāk träṅktsi mā kärsnāt ॥ nirdhane
a8	n5 n6 /// (ma)dhyadeśaṣi tāt sne parnäkk ats naṣt k_uyalte ॥ samakkorenaṃ ॥

1a	ṣakkatsts aśśi tu ; b1n7 15σ /// (:)
1b	(mā) (k)āswone ; kaklyuṣu naṣt ; mā tuṅk naś-śi ; metraknaṃ ; tämyo tṣaṃ mā ; kakmu ṣet :
1c	śä° b29σ
1d	/// 6σ kakmuṣ ; lkātsi klyomänt ; metrakäṃ : 1 ॥

*	nirdhane träṅkäṣ kus ne bādhari brā¬
b3	(maṃ)n8 /// ·ā hai tālo ṣokyo nu cam ypeṣiṃ kārāśaṃ ānāntāpā śol śāwāṣt
b4	/// säṣt • naś-śi nu parnore śkā kuc ne tu caṣ ypeyaṃ yet tā ne klyom me¬
b5	(trak) /// (ta)lke māññe lame • kus ne säm tmaṃ pyākäṣ lkātär säm caṣ ta¬
b6	(lke)n9 n10 /// (tā)mäk{†ä} t(k)anaṃ waṣtu neñc puk täṣ talke māññe säs ॥ vañśa¬
b7	(vātraṃ)n10 (॥)

1a	17σ /// –
1b	niṣpaltu eṣār ; sne eṃts eṣār ; p_ukis eṣār ; b8n11 5σ
1c	17σ ///
1d	10σ (ā)r(ś)o ; lo ār talke säm : 1 ॥

*	tämyo tṣaṃ e¬
	*	(l)

Translation

a1+	... I will go quickly to Bādhari the Brahmin
a2	... (Paiṅgi)ka says:
a2+	The houses of the teacher - may they be freed (?)
a3	... says: You, noble one, go with the disciples to your own place;
a3+	I, on my part
a4	... Having said that, the noble Metrak left with his entourage.
a4+	\|\| Then Nirdhana ... says:
a5	Hello! Where is it that they give alms?
a5+	\|\| Then, seeing a man...
a6	... What are you saying? \|\| Nirdhana says: This may be him. \|\| The man says: Who? \|\|
a6+	Nirdhana says:
a7	... Hello, you miserable one! Are you perhaps the sacrificial assistant? Don’t you know how to talk?
a7+	\|\| Nirdhana
a8	... if you are from the Madhyadeśa, you will indeed be without glory. Why that? \|\| In the Samakkore [tune] \|\|
a8+	Surely you
b1	... You have (not) heard of his virtue. You have no love for Metrak. Therefore you did not come here ...
b2	1. \|\|
b2	... having come to see the noble Metrak. Nirdhana says:
b2+	Whoever (to) Bādhari the Brahmin
b3+	... Hello, miserable one! You have lived in the forest of this land a life of endless misery
b4	... you ...
b4+	But for you there is still splendor since you went to that country where the noble Metrak
b5	... sacrificial assistant ... the place.
b5+	Whoever sees the pillar here, he ... the sacrifice
b6	... on that very ground are the homes. All that this sacrificial assistant
b6+	\|\| In the Vañśa(vātra) [tune] \|\|
b7	... properties they gave, they gave alms without greed, they gave to everyone
b8	1. \|\|
b8	... today the sacrifice came to an end. Then here the gift ...

Other

a1	I will quickly go to Bādhari the Brahmin. (41) (Peyrot 2013b: 623)
a7	Hey, miserable one! You must really be an idiot, [as] you do not even know [how] to say “sacrifical site”! (Peyrot 2013b: 281)
a8	If you are from Madhyadeśa, you will indeed be without glory. (41) (Peyrot 2013b: 251)
a8+	Certainly you must … ; you have (not) heard of [his] virtue, [and] you have no love for Maitreya, so that is not why you have come here. (cf 41) (Peyrot 2013b: 280)

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*	The commentary is adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 42.
n3	kuciṃ is possibly in some way associated with kus.
n5	Since TA parno means “glorious”, one should associate parnäkk probably with paräṃ “glory”.
n8	On kārāś, see TEB II: 90: “cf. khotan. kāraśśa “Schlinggewächs”, “Wald”.” ānāntāp-ā is a new form, probably perlative singular. It looks like a loanword from Skt.: ananta+tapa- or anantava(t).

Parallel texts

*	MaitrHami 1, 11

Remarks

*	This fragment contains part of the first act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; an Uy. parallel is MaitrHami I, 11a (end)-11b (end). See also Pinault 1999: 193-4.
*	The translation and the following commentary are basically adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 42.

Philological commentary

n1	Owing to the lack of Uyghur equivalent, this paragraph is not quite clear.
n2	Nirdhane: cf. Skt. nirdhana- means “having no money”. In the Chinese version (Xian yu jing), he is called Lao-du-cha = Raudrākṣa. Vide Ji et al. 1998: 7-13.
n4	aśśi talke māṃñe okāk träṅktsi mā kärsnāt: Carling et al. 2009: 100 has “do you perhaps not even know how to say «sacrificial assistant»?”; Peyrot 2011: 38, quoting this as “do you perhaps not even know how to say «sacrificial place»?”, would place aśśi with the preceding clause, to give “you must be an idiot, [as] you do not even know [how] to say «sacrificial site»!” (with ref. to Schmidt 1999, Pinault 2002).
n6	samakkorenaṃ: stanza of 20 (5/5/5/5) + 22 (8/7/7) + 10 (5/5) + 15 (8/7) syllables.
n7	Owing to the lack of an Uyghur parallel version, the meaning of the following paragraph is not quite clear.
n9	talke māññe säs: cf. line a7: talke māññe okāk.
n10	vañśavātraṃ: name of a tune, so to be restored, cf. vaṃśavātraṃ A 148: b2, A 187: a3; stanza of 4 x 17 (5/7/5) syllables.
n11	(ā)r(ś)o: cf. Schmidt 1999b: 282.

References

Edition

Ji et al. 1998

Translations

Peyrot 2013b: a1 (623), a7 (281), a8 (251), a8 b1 (280)

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

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 2011

Peyrot, Michaël. 2011. “Review of: A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: letters a-j.” Kratylos 56: 30–50.

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.

Pinault 2002

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 2002. “Tokh. B kucaññe, A kuciṃ et skr. tokharika.” Indo-Iranian Journal 45: 311–45.

Schmidt 1999

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1999. “Tocharisch A k͡ᵤciṃ ‘aus Kučā stammend, kučisch’.” Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 59: 107–13.

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.

TEB II

Thomas, Werner, and Wolfgang Krause. 1964. Tocharisches Elementarbuch, Band II. Texte und Glossar. Heidelberg: Winter.