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YQ II.15

Known as:YQ II.15; YQ 1.43
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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 2.15
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Drama
Verse/Prose:prose; verse
Meter:43434 (4x)

Object

Manuscript:Yanqi
Preceding fragment:YQ II.14
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:8

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Transliteration

(continues from YQ II.14)

a1/// [k]la tk· ā kā¯ ¯ś : wi nā sa ma śśi wa s̝ta s̝la ñclu ne pu tti
a2/// ypa mta rci ma rwa sma rsi¯ ¯t tski tā ra mpu¯ ¯k klo pa ntwä¯ ¯s̝ : 2
a3/// [s̝]a wlā ñä kta¯ ¯cä tra ṅka s̝pa lkā¯ ¯r kau śi ke ṣo kyo nu klyo mme tra¯ ¯k
a4/// ·[t]· skmāṃ lkā tsi tā¯ ¯k ṣo kyo nu ṣā ma ñi we ṣa śśä¯ ¯l ri tu || wlā ñkä¯ ¯t tra
a5/// tkmāṃ nā tsu • klyo ma ntme tra kyā ppu klo tksā pa loṃ tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ pu klo tksā śkaṃ
a6/// [tma]¯ ¯s̝ pai ṅgi keṃ le kta rko ra¯ ¯s̝ a ji te nä ṣṣa ci śä¯ ¯k śtwa rpi ma na rkā¯ ¯ñä
a7/// pkā kce¯ ¯m ā ṣā ni kāṃ klyo ma¯ ¯nt me tra knaṃ kā pñu ne yā trai vā ci kśa ra
a8/// [ṅ]g[i] ke ma na¯ ¯rk ka lpo sro tā pa ttu ne pa raṃ śla ynā ñmu ne ptā ñka tka ṣṣiṃ
b1/// [pa] tha cyä s̝la cpai ṅgi ke || tma¯ ¯s̝ ā ṣā ni¯ ¯k ptā ñka «tka» ṣṣi klyo ma¯ ¯nt me tra
b2/// ·[ā] su ka kmu ya saṃ ṣā mnā ñkā su wa s̝ta¯ ¯s̝ la ntu kā su ka lpo ya saṃ
b3/// ku pre o ntaṃ tā o ntaṃ u du mpa rṣi pyā pyo ki ptā ñka tka ṣṣi : pā kra mska
b4/// l[p]ā¯ ¯cä : ka pśaṃ ra ke pa ltsa kyo kā su ska ma tkā kro pu¯ ¯s̝ pṣtā ka sṣā mnā
b5/// [¯cä] ytā¯ ¯r ri ṣa ki tāṃ : 1 || ta myo pi cä sya sṣā mnā¯ ¯ñä ṣñi kā swo ne
b6/// rbi lvā kā śya¯ ¯p nä ṣṣa ci vai ne ṣi nä syā tñmā rta mwe wñu ra¯ ¯s̝
b7/// [t]·[e] ya pra vra jaṃ ño mā wä¯ ¯t ni pā¯ ¯t ā¯ ¯r || ca¯ ¯s̝ po sta¯ ¯k
b8/// [ss]o ko yā ṣa kka¯ ¯ts me tra kaṃ ptā ñkta śśä¯ ¯l ṣya¯ ¯k śmi mā¯ ¯r ||

Transcription

(continues from YQ II.14)

*(nä)¬
a1¬(kcyāñ)n1n2 (pyāpyāñ)
1a14σ /// ; klä tk· ākāś :
2bwināsamäś;śi waṣtäṣ ; läñclune put;tia2(śparäṃ) ; 4σ
2c18σ
2d4σ /// ; ypamtär-ci ; mar was märsit ; tskitār-äm ; puk klopäntwäṣ : 2
a3n3 /// (pälkorä)ṣ{†ä} wlāñäktac träṅkäṣ pälkār kauśike ṣokyo nu klyom metrak
a4n4 /// · t(ā)skmāṃ lkātsi tāk ṣokyo nu ṣāmañi weṣaśśäl ritu ॥ wlāñkät trä¬
a5¬(ṅkäṣ)n5 /// (kā)tkmāṃ nātsu • klyomänt meträkyāp puk lotksā paloṃ träṅkäṣ puk lotksā śkaṃ
a6n6 /// tmäṣ paiṅgikeṃ lek tärkoräṣ ajitenäṣṣ aci śäk śtwar pi manarkāñ
a7n7 /// pkā-k cem āṣānikāṃ klyomänt metraknaṃ kāpñuneyā traivācik śara¬
a8¬(ṇagamyo)n7n8 /// (pai)ṅgike manark kälpo srotāpattune paräṃ śla ynāñmune ptāñkät käṣṣiṃ
b1n9 /// (dakṣiṇā)pathac yäṣ läc paiṅgike ॥ tmäṣ āṣānik ptāñkät käṣṣi klyomänt metra¬
b2¬(knäṣṣ)n10 (aci) /// (k)āsu kakmu yasäṃ ṣāmnāñ kāsu waṣtäṣ lantu kāsu kälpo yasäṃ
b3///
1akupre ontaṃ ; tā ontaṃ ; udumparṣi ; pyāpy oki ; ptāñkät käṣṣi :
1bpākrä mskab4(tär)n11 ; 12σ /// (kä)lpāc :
1ckapśaṃ rake ; pältsäkyo ; kāsu skamat ; kākropuṣ ; pṣtākäs ṣāmnāb5(ñ)n12 (:)
1d10σ /// (ner);(vāna)c ytār ; riṣaki tāṃ : 1 ॥
*tämyo picäs yas ṣāmnāñ ṣñi kāswone
b6n13 /// (ū)rbilvā kāśyapnäṣṣ aci vaineṣinäs yātñmār täm wewñuräṣ
b7n14 /// (mai)t(r)eyapravrajaṃ ñomā wät nipāt ār ॥ caṣ postäk
b8n15 /// (pñintwi)ss okoyā ṣakkats metrakäṃ ptāñktaśśäl ṣyak śmimār ॥

Translation

(continues from YQ II.14)

a1... having moved (?) the sky.
a1+We pay homage to you for having gone away from the house (wishing for) the rank of a Buddha ...
a2... we pay (respect) to you.
a2May you not forget us,
a2may you deliver us from all woes!
a2+... (God Brahmā), having looked (at the noble Metrak), says to God Indra:
a3See, Kauśika,
a3+very much now the noble Metrak ... has become to be seen similar to ...,
a4very well is he now equipped with the guise of a monk.
a4+|| God Indra says:
a5... having become filled with joy, he constantly says the praise of the noble Metrak,
a5+and constantly ...
a6+Thereupon, leaving out Paiṅgika, the fourteen brahmin youths, beginning with Ajita, ... altogether.
a7+They, out of love for the venerable noble Metrak and ... (with) the threefold refuge(-taking) ...
a8+... Paiṅgika, the brahmin youth, having attained the rank of a srotaāpanna (and having) respectfully (asked) the Buddha-god the teacher ... (he) is going to the Dakṣiṇāpatha.
b1Exit Paiṅgika.
b1+|| Thereupon, the venerable Buddha-god the teacher, (having called) ... beginning with the noble Metrak, ...
b2Good is your coming, oh monks!
b2Good is the going away from the house!
b2+Good is your obtaining ...
b3At some time, somewhere, like the Udumbara flower, the Buddha-god the teacher makes his appearance. ... if you have attained ...,
b4+be sure to have become those who have always accumulated virtue with body, word, and mind, oh monks!
b5... this way to the Nirvāṇa, oh sages!
b5Therefore go, you monks, ...
b5+(for) your own good ...
b6... I will [go and save] the adherents of the Vinaya, beginning with Urubilvā-Kāśyapa.
b6+That having been said, ...
b7... The second act (of the Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka) named Maitreya-pravrajana has come to an end.
b7+|| This book ... as fruit of merits ...
b8... may I for sure come together with the Buddha-god Metrak! ||
a6...
b2...
b3...
b51 ||

Other

a2May you not forget us, may you deliver us from all woes! (165) (Peyrot 2013b: 239)
b4… if you attain [pl.] …, be [pl.] sure to have always accumulated virtue with body, word, and mind, o monks! (cf 139) (Peyrot 2013b: 646)
b6I will [go and save] the adherents of the Vinaya, beginning with Urubilvā-Kāśyapa. (139) (Peyrot 2013b: 623)

Commentary

Linguistic commentary

*The commentary is adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 142.
n10The forms TA kakmu, lantu, and kälpo are verbal nouns, not past participles; kāsu kakmu corresponds to Skt. svāgatam 'good coming'.

Parallel texts

*MaitrHami 2, 17

Remarks

*This fragment contains the end and colophon (in b7) of the second act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; an Uy. parallel is MaitrHami II, 17a1-b25. See also Pinault 1999: 195-6.
*This text continues from YQ II.14.
*The translation and the following commentary are adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 142.

Philological commentary

n1/// [k]la tk· ākāś\: this reading appears to be preferable to [r]utk(·) ākāś\ of Ji et al. 1998: 138. Possibly, this sequence is to interpreted as /// klä tka[ṃ] ākāś '... earth [and] sky.' (Peyrot 2013b: xx). Although Schmidt 1999b: 280 has correctly noted the difficulties with the reading, he leaves out the second akṣara completely in his own suggestion /// (ka)[k]la(ṃ) ākāś\.
n2ākāś is the last word of the first pāda of the second stanza of the type 4 x 18 (7/7/4). For wināsamäśśi etc. cf. the Uyghur text in the Turfan recension, Taf. 18, v. 14 fr. (Tekin 1980: 59) and in the Hami recension, MaitrHami 2, 17 a2ff.
n3Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 a9-10.
n4Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 a15-16.
n5The subject of träṅkäṣ is in the singular, whereas in the Uyghur version the praise to the noble Metrak is done by the divine beings in the sky, cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 a18-20, and in the Turfan recension, Taf. 19, r. 4-6 (Tekin 1980: 60).
n6Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 a21ff.
n7śaraṇagamyo: for this expression, cf. YQ II.14: a8, and A 269 and 290: a6.
n8Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 a27.
n9Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 b1. The akṣara tka in tkäṣṣi had been left out by the scribe, and is written in smaller size beneath the line.
n11Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 b13-14.
n12Cf. Turfan version, Taf. 19, v. 7 (Tekin 1980: 61).
n13Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 b19-20.
n14Cf. MaitrHami 2, 17 b23-25.
n15For this syntagma (pñintwiss oko, pñintwāśśi oko), cf. A 13: b5, A 19: b2, A 65: a1.

References

Edition

Ji et al. 1998

Translations

Peyrot 2013b: a2 (239), b4 (646), b6 (623)

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.

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.

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.