Saka Scythian Khotanese document Or.6394/2 from Dandan Uiliq, 778-779 CE

From the International Dunhuang Project:

Order from the spāta Ṣṣanīraka to the haṃdasta Sīḍaka in Gaysāta regarding payment. The similar document SI P 103.40 mentions the year of the ṣṣau Ṣacū (= 778-9), and SI P 103.41 mentions a *Sogdian (sūlī). Hoernle, 1901, p. 38.

Translation:

(1) The spāta Ṣṣanīraka orders thus: To the haṃdasta Sīḍaka in Gaysāta:

(2) Thus you owe x mūrās per head as well as those for cloth for winter clothes. 

(3) And those mūrās they requested in the month of Kaja in the Inner Fortress. And I requested them from the *Sogdian 

(4) with interest. Now, the *Sogdian has come here. When you hear the order bring here those 9,370 mūrās 

(5) with the interest. The *Sogdian is not going to you. If you do not bring those mūrās here within five days [note a: Cf. SI P 103.42 paṃjvā haḍvā ma thaṃgä ājimyari “bring the tax here within five days!” ] 

(6) you will have to eat (= suffer) strong penalties. [note b: Chin. phau, see Intro. Cf. SI P 93.5 [paʾ]jsa phauʾva byehi, SI P 94.4 X[...] ājume phauʾ-v-e parī hauḍä.]. On the 6th day of Haṃdyaja the order 

(7) went out to you.

From the British Library.

Source/Quote:

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