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Prods Oktor Skjærvø. « A Khotanese amulet », in : Maria Macuch, Mauro Maggi & Werner Sundermann, eds., Iranian languages and texts from Iran and Turan: Ronald E. Emmerick memorial volume. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, pp. 387-401. (IRANICA, 13)

Mauro Maggi

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1Edition with translation, commentary, glossary and facsimiles of a newly found Late Khotanese (Middle Khotanese in S.’s terminology) fragmentary manuscript in two parts from Dandan Öiliq, now in the Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology, Urumchi. Note the previously unattested word marma-sthāna‑ “soft spot, vulnerable place” in a2. As the prohibitive particle ma is only used to negate wishes and exhortations, I would translate a6-7 ma ni ba[’]ysūśtä bvāmane “we shall not realise bodhi here (i.e. in this life)”, taking ma as a late, shortened form for mara “here”.

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Mauro Maggi, “Prods Oktor Skjærvø. « A Khotanese amulet », in : Maria Macuch, Mauro Maggi & Werner Sundermann, eds., Iranian languages and texts from Iran and Turan: Ronald E. Emmerick memorial volume. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007, pp. 387-401. (IRANICA, 13)”Abstracta Iranica [Online], Volume 30 | 2010, document 23, Online since 08 April 2010, connection on 17 December 2025. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/abstractairanica/37558; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.37558

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Mauro Maggi

Università la Sapienza - Rome

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