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YQ N.2 and N.6

Known as:YQ N.2 and N.6; YQ N.2; YQ 1.35; YQ N.6; YQ 1.40
Cite this page as:Adrian Musitz. "YQ N.2 and N.6". 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-yqn2 (accessed 05 May 2024).

Edition

Editor:Adrian Musitz

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: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

a3/// [ś]ś· sa ntā naṃ o ///
a4/// ·[k]· – ¯ñ[ä] o kā¯ ¯k pa rne ṣi n· ///
a5/// [tti] ka ptā ñkta¯ ¯ñä kā ta ṅke¯ ¯ñcä ce mc[a] ///
a6/// ·w· [w]· ku s̝s̝a¯ ¯k a bhi jñe sra myā mu¯ ¯s̝ : ra· [dh]· ///
a7/// ¯[ñ]c[ä] e la¯ ¯nt ce smi mā¯ ¯k : skaṃ ṣtmo¯ ¯s̝ suki sṣu¯ ¯rm kro pa [nt]ra ///
a8/// pr· c·¯ ¯r de va da tte a vi śä¯ ¯s̝ tsa lpo na peṃ saṃ śā cyā pwa¯ ¯s̝t lmo ///
b1/// [la] n[ta]¯ ¯s̝ ṣñi knā nmu ne yo ta ryā¯ ¯kpa tpī bo dha pa kṣi kma rka [m](·)a ///
b2/// yo kāṃ ka pśi ñño wkaṃ wä knā ra ddhi pa ryā ri yo wra [sa] ///
b3/// ·[e] ·tā mpo saṃ lmo ṣñi yā mlu ne o pyā cka [l](·)·[ṃ] ///
b4/// [¯]nt se de va da tte ño mā ma śki¯ ¯t ṣe ///
b5/// ·[aṃ] k· mmo ki ā s̝ta rpā ṣ(·)· ///
b6/// ··ä : ptā ñ[ka] t[ka] ·i[ṃ] ///

Transcription

a3 /// śś(i) santānaṃ o ///
a4 /// ·k· – ñ okāk pärneṣi n· ///
a5 /// (pra)ttika-ptāñktañ kātäṅkeñc cem ca(kravartti) ///
a6 /// · w(a)w(i)kuṣ ṣäk abhijñes ram yāmuṣ : rä(d)dh(i) ///
a7 n1 /// (ese)ñc elant cesmi māk : skaṃ ṣtmoṣ sukis ṣurm kropänträ ///
a8 /// pr(a)c(a)r devadatte aviśäṣ tsälpo napeṃsaṃ śācyāp waṣt lmo ///
b1 /// läntäṣ ṣñi knānmuneyo taryāk ṣpät bodhapakṣik märkam(p)a(läntu) ///
b2 /// (wsā) yokāṃ kapśiñño wkäṃ wäknā räddhi paryāriyo wrasa(s) ///
b3 /// ·e (ṣ)tām posaṃ lmo ṣñi yāmlune opyāc käl(lā)ṃ(t) ///
b4 /// (lā)nt se devadatte ñomā mäśkit ṣe(m) ///
b5 n2 /// (ś)aṃk(u)mm oki āṣtär pāṣ(ṣune) ///
b6 n3 /// ··ä : ptāñkät kä(ṣṣ)iṃ ///

Translation

a3 ... in the continuity of...
a4 ... even an outsider...
a5 ... the Pratyeka-Buddhas arise. They... Cakravartin...
a6 ... having removed... having done, as it were, six... of supernatural knowledge... magical power...
a7 ... they give them many gifts... Always standing, they gather cause for bliss...
a8 ... brother Devadatte, freed from Avīci, managing the home of a rich person among men...
b1 ... exits. Through their own knowledge, thirty six conditions favorable to enlightenment...
b2 ... with gold colored body, through manifold magic and miracle, beings...
b3 ... sitting beneath a tree, remembering his own deeds...
b4 ... I was the son of king..., Devadatte by name, a prince.
b5 ... like a shellfish, pure behavior....
b6 ... Buddha the teacher...

Commentary

Philological commentary

Unidentified fragment.
n1 skaṃ: Schmidt 1999c: 90 reads sukaṃ, but in view of the clear suk in the same line this reading remains doubtful.
n2 pāṣ(ṣune): Schmidt 1999c: 91 reads pāp(ṣune), which is plainly contradicted by the facsmile in Ji et al. 1998: 382. However, he is right that there seems to be space for the l of pāṣ(lune), the reading of Ji et al. 1998: 206.
n3 /// ··ä: Schmidt 1999c: 91 reads [··eṃ] instead.

Remarks

As pointed out by Schmidt 1999c (see also Schmidt 1999b: 277), the fragments YQ N.2 (YQ 1.35) and YQ N.6 (YQ 1.40) belong to the same leaf and join directly. The fragments are treated as one below on the basis of Schmidt's re-edition. Lines a1-a2 and b7-b8 are lost.

References

other

Ji et al. 1998: 206; Schmidt 1999c

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.

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.

Schmidt 1999c

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1999c. “Das Fragment YQ 1.40 + 1.35 der osttocharischen Maitreyasamitināṭaka-Handschrift des Xinjiang-Museums in Urumqi.” Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 59: 89–93.