2014/03/01 by Jens Wilkens, Georges-Jean Pinault, Michaël Peyrot · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Linguistics and language evolution #Legend #Buddhism #History #Art #Literature #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1556/aorient.67.2014.1.1
openalex publication_date 2014/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
According to the colophons of the Old Uyghur Daśakarmapathāvadānamālā (DKPAM), this collection of Buddhist birth legends was translated from a Tocharian A (tohrı) source which in turn was based on a Tocharian B (küsän) original. A Tocharian B fragment from the Paris Pelliot collection presents a close parallel to the legend of Kalmāṣapāda and Sutasoma of the Old Uyghur DKPAM. This legend is so far not attested in Tocharian A. Although the existence of a Tocharian A intermediary text cannot be excluded, the parallel is so close that the Old Uyghur text may also have been translated directly from Tocharian B.