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1　… You have (not) heard of his virtue. You have no love for Metrak. Therefore you did not come here …

2…having come to see the noble Metrak. 1. || Nirdhana says: Whoever (to) Bādhari the Brahmin 3…Hello, miserable one! You have lived in the forest of this land (7) a life of endless misery (8)

4　… you … But for you there is still splendor since you went to that country where the noble Metrak 5…sacrificial assistant ,.. the place. Whoever sees the pillar here, he …the sacrifice 6　…on that very ground are the homes. All that this sacrificial assistant (9) || In the Vansa(vatra) (10) [tune] ||

7　… properties they gave, they gave alms without greed, they gave to everyone 8　… the sacrifice came to an end. 1. || Then here the gift …

Notes (1) Owing to the lack of Uighur equivalent, this paragraph is not quite clear.

(2) Nirdhane, proper name. Skt. nirdhana- means “having no money”. In the Chinese version (Xian yu jing), he is called Lao-du-cha = Raudräkṣa. Vide supra 1.5.1.

(3) k^u ciṃ is possibly in some way associated with kus.

(4) Since Tocharian A parno means "glorious", one should associate parnäkk probably with paräṃ "glory".

(5) Stanza of 20(5/5/5/5)+22(8/7/7)+10(5/5)+15(8/7) syllables.

(6) Owing to the lack of Uighur parallel version, the meaning of the following paragraph is not quite clear.

(7) On kārāś, see Thomas, 1964, p. 90: "cf. khotan. kāraśśa 《Schlinggewächs》, 《Wald》."

(8) ānāntāpā, new form, probably perlative singular. It looks like a loanword from Skt.: ananta + tapa- or anantava(t).

(9) Cf. line 7 of 1.17 1/2 [recto]: talke māññe okāk.

(10) Name of a tune, so to be restored, cf. vaṃśavātraṃ TS. A 148 b 2, 187 a 3; stanza of 4 x 17 (5/7/5) syllables.

I.6. YQ 1.16

Transliteration YQ 1.16 1/2 [recto]