Tocharian A manuscript №№ 144–211 from Šorčuq: The new data. I
- Authors: Itkin I.B.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
- HSE University
- Issue: No 1 (2023)
- Pages: 132-150
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0373-658X/article/view/126359
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/0373-658X.2023.1.132-150
- ID: 126359
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Abstract
The article provides a general description of the Tocharian A manuscript №№ 144–211 according to the publication of Tocharian A texts by E. Sieg and W. Siegling (1921). This manuscript is a collection of stories about prince Nanda, the half-brother of Buddha, and Sundari, his beloved. Many fragments of this manuscript, both published and still unpublished, join together. The article publishes two leaves made up of joined fragments — A 144 + THT 2485 and A 171+156 + THT 2543 + THT 2265 — with a detailed commentary and translation. The first leaf describes the beginning of Buddha and Nanda’s journey to the Himalayas and, further, to the world of the Thirty-three Gods (Skr. trayastriṃśa-). The second leaf presents a dialogue between two followers of Buddha — the young women Viśākhā and Preṣikā. A whole variety of elaborately used figures of speech (realization of the metaphor, chiasmus, deliberate syntactic ambiguity, etc.) allows to call this dialogue, whose text can be reconstructed almost fully, a pearl of the Buddhist literature of the Early Middle Ages.
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About the authors
Ilya Borisovich Itkin
Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; HSE University
Author for correspondence.
Email: voprosy@mail.ru
Russia, Moscow
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