本稿では、これまで十分には知られていなかったロシア所蔵トカラ語文献について、筆者が調査した断片の中から、特に重要なものを紹介する。断片の紹介に際しては、その他のコレクションに含まれる断片をも考慮に入れつつ、トカラ語文献に反映される西域北道の仏教を歴史的に位置づけると共に、トカラ語文献が果たした仏教史上の役割についても概観することを可能にするものを中心とした。本稿で扱われる断片は、筆者によって比定された未出版の断片群であり、«Buddhastotra»・«Udānavarga»・«Udānastotra»・«Vessantara-jātaka»を含む。なお、トカラ語B 文献中に対応する内容を含むと推定される古代ウイグル語断片一点も扱う。
This paper provides a brief overview of the Tocharian manuscript remains housed in the Russian collection which are little known in the scholarly world. The paper includes a philological interpretation of six fragments whose provenience is unknown, although my identification alludes to that for two of the fragments. The identification of the fragments analysed here is as follows:
SI 2943-3: Buddhastotra SI 6375-3: Udānavarga
SI 2997-2: Udānastotra SI 2962-2+SI 2998-8: Vessantara-jātaka
SI 3753: History of Kuchean Buddhism
It is noteworthy that the morphological features of SI 2962-2 and SI 2998-8, which are joined to each other, indicate that they belong to the same manuscript as B370 in the Berlin Turfan collection, which was identified as part of the Vessantara-jātaka in TochSprR(B) II. This affiliation suggests that like the latter fragment, SI 2962-2 and SI 2998-8 were also discovered in Murtuq. Together, these fragments are the first Tocharian specimen that can establish a link between the Berlin and Russian fragments. In contrast to A70 in the Berlin Turfan collection, which exhibits strong similarities to the Vessantara-jātaka narrated in the Jātakamālā, the Tocharian B version of this story cannot be attributed to any known Indic texts, but rather most often exhibits similarities with the Chinese and Sogdian versions. This suggests that varying versions of this story were transmitted to the Northern rim of the Tarim Basin.
Another point that deserves mention is that the recto side of SI 3753 that is written in Old Uyghur in the Brāhmī script appears to narrate the history of Kuchean Buddhism, since it mentions Kucha and an Arhat named Candravasu, also attested in B418, now in the Berlin Turfan collection, and discovered in Murtuq. Although the damaged status of these two fragments does not permit us to reconstruct the story narrated in them, it could be supposed that the history of Kuchean Buddhism composed in Tocharian B would have been transmitted to Old Uyghur Buddhism. In this regard, eight Tocharian B and Old Uyghur bilingual fragments currently maintained in the Russian collection will be also introduced.
内容記述
資料・研究ノート Source Materials and Remarks
雑誌名
東京大学言語学論集 電子版（eTULIP） = Tokyo University linguistic papers (eTULIP)
巻
40
号
eTULIP
ページ
e1 - e41
発行年
2018-09-30
ISSN
13458663
書誌レコードID
AN10148796
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院人文社会系研究科・文学部言語学研究室
出版者別名
Department of Linguistics, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
ロシア所蔵トカラ語文献に関する覚え書き
ggr_e040001.pdf
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