b

1　(marks clearly (14) and in their entirety present), /// in heart and body and the knower of all knowledge, will know in his mind all that has been thought and will answer firmly 2　(without ambiguity, this one) (15) … of gods and mortals. 1. || When some of you have asked the questions mentioned, then some others on their part (16) , each

3　(according to his educational training, in connection with skills as) (17) … Veda, grammar [Vyākaraṇa], materialism [Lokāyatana], horoscope and astrology [Horāgaṇita], dancing and acting [Nāṭyacarita], legends [Purāṇa], deep and difficult

4　(questions, quietly kept in your minds only,) (18) ask him one after the other. If this one also gives his answers to you without hesitation and firmly, 5　/// you, my sons, having come to the jewel-island of the (difficult)-to-attain Buddha rank, 6　/// (when) you reach immortal (bliss), be sure and send part of it quickly (back) to me!

7　/// with fifteen brahmin youths beginning with his brother Ajita, … (of) Bādhari 8　/// by the brahmin youths, making his obeisance (19) , he left the abode of Bādhari the Brahmin

Notes (1) Cf. TS. A 213 a 3. The beginning of the Yanqi leaf corresponds to Ui. I. II, 5 a 27f and its last line to 6 b 7-9.

(2) To be probably restored as (lyutār mema)ṣ 、.

(3) Cf. A 213 a 4.

(4) Cf. YQ 1.12 [11.10] b 1.

(5) Cf. A 213 a 5.

(6) Cf. A 213 a 5, end of the fragment.

(7) Cf. A 213 a 6 and 217 b 2.

(8) Cf. A 213 a 6, end of the fragment. For tspokats 、tspokaṣinās with dittography read tspoka-tspokaṣinās, cf. rasa-rasa- in the Skt. compound.

(9) Cf. A 213 a 7.

(10) Cf. A 213 b 1.

(11) Cf. A 213 b 2; see Ui. I. II, 6 a 4-5.

(12) Cf. A 213 b 3. For the next akṣara, the published photograph (plate 27) allows both wä- and waṃ- for a reading.

(13) Stanza of 4 x 14 (7/7) syllables.

(14) Cf. A 213 b 4, end of the fragment.

(15) Cf. A 213 b 5.

(16) wākär is identified as a 3rd pl. pret. in Gr., p. 468 and Thomas, 1964, p. 139. This does not fit the context. Therefore, the form seems best interpreted as an adverb.

(17) Cf. A 213 b 6; see Ui. I. II, 6 a 18-23.

(18) Cf. A 213 b 7.

(19) Maybe miswritten for paṃ, a particle which occurs frequently close to the verb ya-/yām- 'to do', cf. Thomas, 1964, p. 113.

II.6. YQ 1.13