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YQ N.1

Known as:YQ N.1; YQ 1.34
Cite this page as:"YQ N.1". 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-yqn1 (accessed 05 May 2024).

Provenience

Main find spot:Qigexing
Collection:Xinjiang Museum (Ürümchi)

Language and Script

Language:TA

Text contents

Title of the work:Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka
Passage:Not yet identified
Text genre:Literary
Text subgenre:Drama
Verse/Prose:prose; verse

Object

Manuscript:Yanqi
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:8

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Transliteration

a1/// ka¯ ¯nt tspo ka ntu yo ka knu¯ ¯s̝ mo ta ki ṣtā ma ntwaṃ pā kra ma· k·· [ra] ///
a2/// ··ṃ śwā t[s]i ntu ta mne¯ ¯k yo ktsi ntu wkaṃ wä knā ṣtā ma ntwaṃ wa raṃ yo ///
a3/// nyo śwā tsi yo ktsi ri twṣa ntā¯ ¯ñä ka rta ñño ki : p[u] ///
a4/// [nt]ā śśi po saṃ pe ñe mi ṣi nä ska rtkā l·ā ///
a5/// [l]a wa wu ṣkraṃ śwä rpāṃ tra maṃ [t]·[ā] ///
a6/// – ¯r : pā ka rnāṃ t[s]· ///
b3/// – ¯ts cwa ṅke yaṃ kā ///
b4/// [ra] kyo ka knu¯ ¯s̝ yā¯ ¯p mskaṃ ta¯ ¯r : – ///
b5/// [yo] ye tu¯ ¯nt ska¯ ¯m : ṣya wkaṃ lkā tsi kraṃ – ///
b6/// ma e ṅka lsuṃ¯ ¯t : 2 || śā ri pu ttra traka¯ ¯s̝ ma[ṃ] ·[w]· ///
b7/// – ·ṣ[i] traka ṣwe ñā nä ṣce smi wa ṣtwā ṣiṃ yā tlu ne śwā tsi pe [n]· ///
b8/// swe śwā lyāṃ pra ṣtā ma tta kka¯ ¯ts ñä kci su¯ ¯t śwā tsi o ki ///

Transcription

a1 /// känt tspokäntuyo kaknuṣ motaki ṣtāmäntwaṃ pākrä mä(s)k(aṃt)rä ///
a2 /// ··ṃ śwātsintu tämne-k yoktsintu wkäṃ wäknā ṣtāmäntwaṃ waraṃ yo ///
a3 /// nyo śwātsi yoktsi ritwṣantāñ kärtaññ oki : pu ///
a4 /// ntāśśi posaṃ pe ñemiṣinäs kärtkāl(s)ā ///
a5 /// (e)l«†ä» wawuṣ kraṃś wärpāṃträ mäṃt ·ā ///
a6 /// – r : pākär nāṃts(u) ///
b3 /// – ts cwaṅkeyaṃ ///
b4 n1 /// rakyo kaknuṣ yāp mskaṃtär : – ///
b5 /// yo yetunt skam : ṣya-wkäṃ lkātsi kräṃ(tso) ///
b6 /// m«†ä» eṅkalsuṃt : 2 ॥ śāriputträ träṅkäṣ mäṃ(t) w(äknā) ///
b7 /// (käṣ)ṣi träṅkäṣ weñā näṣ cesmi waṣtwāṣiṃ yātlune śwātsi pen(u) ///
b8 /// swe śwālyāṃ praṣtā mättakk ats ñäkci sut śwātsi oki ///

Other

a5 having given gift(s), the good (ones) will receive that … (Peyrot 2013b: 630)

Commentary

Philological commentary

Unidentified fragment.
n1 [ra]kyo: Schmidt 1999b: 281 reads [su]kyo instead.

Remarks

Lines a7-a8 and b1-b2 are lost.

References

other

Ji et al. 1998: 205

Translations

Peyrot 2013b: a4 (630), a5 (630)

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.

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.