| a1 | /// ka lka¯ ¯m ymā¯ ¯r bā dha riṃ brā mna |
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| a2 | /// ·g· k· tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ to¯ ¯s̝ u pā dhyā ywa ṣtu tsa lpi |
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| a3 | /// ·[ra]· ka [ṣ]p· ṣtu klyo¯ ¯m śla ma na rkā¯ ¯s ṣñi ā wā sa¯ ¯cä na ṣpa |
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| a4 | /// – ṣw[e] wñu ra s̝la¯ ¯cä śla wa rtsi klyo mme tra¯ ¯k || tma¯ ¯s̝ ni rdha ne |
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| 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 |
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| a6 | /// ṣku¯ ¯cä tra ṅka¯ ¯t• || ni rdha ne tra ṅka s̝sa mne ta¯ ¯s̝ || o ṅktra ṅka ṣku¯ ¯s || ni rdha ne tra |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| b3 | /// ·[ā] hai tā lo ṣo kyo nu ca¯ ¯m ype ṣiṃ kā rā śaṃ ā nā ntā pā śo¯ ¯l śā wā¯ ¯s̝t |
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| b4 | /// sa¯ ¯s̝t • na śśi nu pa rno re śkā ku cne tu ca¯ ¯s̝ ype yaṃ ye¯ ¯t tā ne klyo mme |
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| b5 | /// l[ke] mā ññe la me • ku sne sa¯ ¯m tmaṃ pyā ka¯ ¯s̝ lkā ta rsa mca ṣta |
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| b6 | /// [ma] ka t·a naṃ wa ṣtu ne¯ ¯ñcä pu kta ṣta lke mā ññe sa¯ ¯s || va ñśa |
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| b7 | /// – ni ṣpa ltu e ṣā¯ ¯r sne eṃ¯ ¯ts e ṣā¯ ¯r puki¯ ¯s e ṣā¯ ¯r |
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| b8 | /// r·o lo ā rta lke sa¯ ¯m : 1 || ta myo tṣaṃ e |
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| a1+ | ... I will go quickly to Bādhari the Brahmin |
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| a2 | ... (Paiṅgi)ka says: |
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| a2+ | The houses of the teacher - may they be freed (?) |
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| a3 | ... says: |
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| a3 | You, noble one, go with the disciples to your own place; |
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| a3+ | I, on my part |
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| a4 | ... Having said that, the noble Metrak left with his entourage. |
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| a4+ | || Then Nirdhana ... says: |
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| a5 | Hello! Where is it that they give alms? |
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| a5+ | || Then, seeing a man... |
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| a6 | ... What are you saying? |
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| a6 | || Nirdhana says: |
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| a6 | This may be him. |
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| a6 | || The man says: |
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| a6 | Who? || |
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| a6+ | Nirdhana says: |
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| a7 | ... Hello, you miserable one! Are you perhaps the sacrificial assistant? |
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| a7 | Don’t you know how to talk? |
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| a7+ | || Nirdhana |
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| a8 | ... if you are from the Madhyadeśa, you will indeed be without glory. |
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| a8 | Why that? |
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| a8 | || In the Samakkore [tune] || |
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| a8+ | Surely you |
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| b1 | ... You have (not) heard of his virtue. |
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| b1 | You have no love for Metrak. |
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| b1 | Therefore you did not come here ... |
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| b2 | ... having come to see the noble Metrak. |
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| b2 | Nirdhana says: |
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| b2+ | Whoever (to) Bādhari the Brahmin |
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| b3+ | ... Hello, miserable one! You have lived in the forest of this land a life of endless misery |
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| b4 | ... you ... |
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| b4+ | But for you there is still splendor since you went to that country where the noble Metrak |
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| b5 | ... sacrificial assistant ... the place. |
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| b5+ | Whoever sees the pillar here, he ... the sacrifice |
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| b6 | ... on that very ground are the homes. |
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| b6 | All that this sacrificial assistant |
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| b6+ | || In the Vañśa(vātra) [tune] || |
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| b7 | ... properties they gave, |
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| b7 | they gave alms without greed, |
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| b7 | they gave to everyone |
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| b8 | ... today the sacrifice came to an end. |
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| b8 | Then here the gift ... |
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| b2 | 1. || |
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| b8 | 1. || |
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| n1 | Owing to the lack of Uyghur equivalent, this paragraph is not quite clear. |
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| 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. |
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| 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). |
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| n6 | samakkorenaṃ: stanza of 20 (5/5/5/5) + 22 (8/7/7) + 10 (5/5) + 15 (8/7) syllables. |
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| n7 | Owing to the lack of an Uyghur parallel version, the meaning of the following paragraph is not quite clear. |
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| n9 | talke māññe säs: cf. line a7: talke māññe okāk. |
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| 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. |
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| n11 | (ā)r(ś)o: cf. Schmidt 1999b: 282. |
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