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    1 is (in a position) to receive every day the homage to the Stūpa consisting of 400,000 [coins]. What is the problem? Young (4)

    2 … says: This being the case, you pronounce now for him the Law, so that he is in everything together …

    3 Then he is to be controlled by Buddhagod the teacher, not by us. || Then Citraratha, having come close, …

    4 with a (worried) mind having made only some weak gesture of veneration, says: Go inside …

    5 pointing with his finger, says: Sit down! Thereupon, an inferior servant indeed …

    6 having brought (?) without the due respect combined with …, he sits down by himself …

    7 having received …, and having briefly proclaimed some basic teaching of the Law to Citraratha, …

    8 I am today on the glorious eighth day without status. Why?

    Notes (1) Cf. Uighur text, Turfan version, Taf. 99, “Rückseite” (to be turned over)= recto, lines 4-5 (Tekin, p. 225). For this leaf, there is no matching text in the Hami version of Maitrisimit.

    (2) Cf. Taf. 99, recto (ibid.), lines 7-9.

    (3) Cf. Taf. 92, verso, lines 4-7 (Tekin, p. 221).

    (4) Cf. Taf. 99, “Vorderseite” (to be turned over) = verso, lines 3-7 (Tekin, p. 224).b - 图1

    2.4. Act V

    V.1. YQ 1.39

    Transliteration YQ 1.39 1/1 [recto]