YQ N.5
| Known as: | YQ N.5; YQ 1.38 |
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| Cite this page as: | "YQ N.5". 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-yqn5 (accessed 23 Apr. 2026). |
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
| a3 | /// [s̝]ma ntnu ce¯ ¯m ā [ṣ]· /// |
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| a4 | /// – ṣo mṣo mka rma pa¯ ¯thä pa ñlo [tk]s· /// |
| a5 | /// yo ta¯ ¯s̝ śä kka rma pa ta ntu kta ṅkā ntra /// |
| a6 | /// ·su n· ta myo ce mmra du kpa ltsa kyo sa rki ñco śä kkra ntwra /// |
| a7 | /// (·)[t]ra ṣñ· ·[o] la ṣlyu tā¯ ¯r ā lu śo lpā saṃ tra pu kwra ssaṃ ce smi w· /// |
| a8 | /// pa ltsa ṅke¯ ¯ñcä pki sce smi ā la¯ ¯m wca naṃ sne rse sne yä slu rñe kā s[w]· /// |
| b1 | /// mwca ni¯ ¯s u mpa ryā mlu ne yā prā kra pro saṃ tra prā kra pra ski a r[s]a /// |
| b2 | /// [c]ä śaṃ – ke yo ka pśi ñño pa¯ ¯t yā me¯ ¯ñcä || su nda ra vā ṅ[k]aṃ /// |
| b3 | /// [k]ā pñu ne yo ā la mwca śśä¯ ¯l o la ri¯ ¯ñä : mā /// |
| b4 | /// [m]su ṣtaṃ : 1 || ta myo ta mce smi śo¯ ¯l sne ñā /// |
| b5 | /// ·n· n[k]a lu ne a ryu klya ntra¯ ¯m /// |
| b6 | /// lyu tā rme ma ṣ·ā [ñi] /// |
Transcription
| a3 | /// ṣ mänt nu cem āṣ(ānikāñ) /// |
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| a4 | /// ṣom ṣom karmapath päñ lotks(ā) /// |
| a5 | /// yo täṣ śäk karmapatäntu ktäṅkānträ /// |
| a6 | n1 /// (ākt)sun(e) tämyo cem mräduk pältsäkyo särkiñco śäk krant wra(mäṃ) /// |
| a7 | n2 /// (praskan)trä ṣñ(i) (ś)oläṣ lyutār ālu śol pāsaṃträ puk wrassaṃ cesmi w· /// |
| a8 | n3n4 /// pältsäṅkeñc pkis cesmi ālam wcanaṃ sne rse sne yäslurñe kāsw(one) /// |
| b1 | n5 /// (āla)m wcanis umpar yāmluneyā prākrä prosaṃträ prākrä praski arsa(nträ) /// |
| b2 | /// cäśaṃ (ra)keyo kapśiñño pat yāmeñc ॥ sundaravāṅkaṃ /// |
| b3 | n6 /// kāpñuneyo ālam wcaśśäl olariñ : mā /// |
| b4 | n7 /// (ma)msuṣ taṃ : 1 ॥ tämyo täm cesmi śol sne-ñā(tse) /// |
| b5 | /// (s)n(e) nkalune aryu klyantr-äm /// |
| b6 | n8 /// lyutār memaṣ (ś)āñi /// |
Translation
| a5 | ... they violate the ten karmapathas ... |
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Other
| b2 | or they will do (it) through …, word and body. (Peyrot 2013b: 630) |
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Commentary
Parallel texts
| A 262, A 277 |
Philological commentary
| This fragment helps to determine that the Berlin fragments A 262 and A 277 are from two subsequent leaves of the same manuscript. One can also fix the order of the sides of the fragment A 277. | |
| See also Pinault 1999: 205. | |
| n1 | (ākt)sun(e): cf. A 262 b5. |
| n2 | (praskan)trä: cf. A 262 b6. |
| n3 | pältsäṅkeñc : cf. A 262 b7. |
| n4 | pkis: Schmidt 1999b: 281 reads pukis, but this reading is not obvious. |
| n5 | Cf. A 262 b8. |
| n6 | kāpñuneyo: cf. A 277 a1. |
| n7 | Cf. A 277 a2. |
| n8 | memaṣ: cf. A 277 a3, end of the line. |
Remarks
| Lines a1-a2 and b7-b8 are lost. | |
| The commentary is adapted from Ji et al. 1998: 210-211. |
References
Edition
Ji et al. 1998: 210-211
Translations
Carling et al. 2009: a5 (128); Peyrot 2013b: b2 (630)
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
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, 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, 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, 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.
