b

1　/// in (studying the Law) … and (even) a little joy in the good way of life of the jewel of the Community of monks, in whose thought …

2　/// therefore you, oh brahmin youths, recognize that as the ‘top’ (6) which is taught by the Buddhagod. 1 || Thereupon, Upaśima 3　/// asks by himself the question: What, oh venerable one, is ‘falling from the top’ (7) ? || With a loud voice,

4　/// If a being falls from the joy in the three jewels, he goes to vanishing and destruction.

5　/// recognize (this), oh brahmin youths, as ‘falling from the top’! 1 || Thereupon (8) , Paiṅgika and the other …

6　/// deep and difficult problems connected with other heretical Śāstras, … (in their) mind, 7　/// having pronounced, he says: || In the Niṣkramant (9) [tune] || Those four truths

8　/// are to be understood (as being without) self (10) . Having become the cause, the five aggregates …

Notes (1) Cf. Ui. I. II, 12 a 27 ff., and the last line of this leaf corresponds to Ui. I. II, 13 a 25.

(2) Cf. Ui. I. II, 12 b 1 ff.

(3) Meaning and derivational history of this verb remain unclear.

(4) The Uighur text has ‘sixteen’, cf. Ui. I. II, 12 b 20.

(5) Stanza of 4 x 17 (6/6/5) syllables.

(6) Cf. Ui. I. II, 12 b 30.

(7) Cf. Ui. I. II, 13 a 4.

(8) Cf. Ui. I. II, 13 a 11 ff.

(9) Stanza of 4 x 17 (6/6/5) syllables.

(10) The restored compound sn=āñcäm (metri causa for sne āñcäm ) ‘without self’ has its equivalent in Ui. mäningligsiz , 13 a 24.

II.12. YQ 1.10

Transliteration YQ 1.10 1/2 [recto]