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THT 83

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Translation

Philological commentary

Continues THT 82, continued on THT 84. The translation follows Schmidt KT 2001: 312. In TochSprR(B) II: 21 the first two lines are interpreted as a soliloquy by the king, as a “Zwiegespräch mit dem eigenen Ich” (i.e. “dialogue with the inner self”; Thomas 1957: 185).

1. Sieg/Siegling propose to read and restore kä(r)py(eṃ) "common", cf. kärpye-saṃsār in IOL Toch 1 b 4; but there is a trace of the vowel sign left that can only be ā, o, or au, cf. Schmidt KT 2001: 312, fn. 56, who, nevertheless, accepts the correction to kä(r)py(eṃ). The middle Pt III form p(·)lyks(·)t(·) has to be restored to a zero-grade form p(a)lyks(a)t(ai); see Hackstein 1995: 111, fn. 6 with ref. At the end, Sieg/Siegling restored (twe no), Krause and Thomas, TEB II: 50, fn. 7 (twe ṣek).

1-2. The meter has 4 x 17 (6/6/5) syllables.

2. Krause and Thomas, TEB II: 50, fn. 8 also propose the word separation uppāll e, and even though words starting with le are rare (none fits here), such a gemination in sandhi is unusual. Sandhi gemination is usually found at morpheme boundaries, but, to my knowledge, not in compounds (the form may be one).

3. Note the tense alternation between present and preterite.

6. At the beginning, Krause and Thomas, TEB II: 51, fn. 3 propose to restore the m-Part. (miwama)ne "trembling". As for the restoration of the lacuna, Sieg/Siegling in TochSprR(B) II: 21, fn. 14 propose the nom.pl. yākṣi (as attested in THT 3 a 1), reading two completely missing akṣaras. In contrast, Krause and Thomas, TEB II: 51, fn. 4 restore yakṣī based on THT 85 a 3/4. Then Thomas in TochSprR(B)2: 238 withdraws this interpretation, arguing for yākṣi again. However, there is a trace of the vowel sign left, which can only belong to a long ī, not to a short one.

Linguistic commentary

3, 5. There is no trace of an anusvara on either autsate-ne (for auntsate) in line 3 or brāhmaṇets (for brāhmaṇeṃts) in line 5, so that Sieg/Siegling restore one in both cases; however, these are rather instances of genuine nasal loss in front of ts, which is a feauture of late and colloquial texts; see Peyrot 2008: 69.

4 The reading sauśka for soṃśka is certain; a similar form sauśke is found on the following leaf THT 84 b 6. Even though the graphemes oṃ and au look quite similar, the two spellings are most likely not simply due to copyist errors but are rather hypercorrect spellings, since in the late/colloquial language the sequence oṃś turns to auś; see Peyrot 2008: 91-93.

References

IDP: THT 83, TITUS: THT 83
Edition: TochSprR(B) II: 21
Complete translation: Couvreur 1954c: 101, Schmidt KT 2001: 312
Translation: 1 Hackstein 1995: 111, Krause, WTG: 40, Thomas 1952: 55, Thomas 1957: 185; 2 Schmidt KT 1974: 257 n.1, Thomas 1957: 185, 208; 3 Schmidt KT 1974: 369, Thomas 1988: 252; 4 TochSprR(B)2: 238; 5 Hackstein 1995: 252, Thomas 1957: 243 n.3; a3 Carling 2000: 215; 5 Krause, WTG: 204, Krause, WTG: 206; 6 Krause, WTG: 204

Editors

Melanie Malzahn

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THT

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TochSprR(B)2

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