ON THE KARMAVĀCANĀ IN TOCHARIAN (Plate II) Hirotoshi OGIHARA 1. INTRODUCTION Among the extant Tocharian Buddhist texts, there is a group of fragments belonging to Vinaya literature. They can be divided into three main class- es: Prātimokṣa-sūtra, Vinayavibhaṅga and Karmavācanā. Here, the main focus is placed on the last one. A Tocharian B Karmavācanā written on birch bark (fragments THT1102-1125, belonging to a single manuscript) has already been studied by K. T. SCHMIDT in his habilitation thesis, where he has also provided a provisional list of Karmavācanā manuscripts in Tocharian. However, a systematic survey of all extant materials is still a desideratum. 1 In this paper, I first offer an overview of all known Tocharian Karmavācanā materials (§ 2) and then I present an edition and translation of five fragments that I have recently identified in the Berlin collection, in comparison with their Sanskrit parallel (§ 3), and compare them with the corresponding pas- sages in the Tocharian Karmavācanā published by SCHMIDT , as well as with the Karmavācanā preserved in Tumshuqese (§ 4). 2. SURVEY OF THE KARMAVĀCANĀ MATERIALS IN T OCHARIAN A revision of SCHMIDT’s provisional list is now possible thanks to easier access to the photographs of the manuscripts on the websites of the institu- tions where they are housed. The list given at the end of this paper is based on my research on the Tocharian Vinaya texts kept in the Berlin, Lon- don, Paris, St.-Petersburg and Lushun collections. 2 Overall, it is possible to make the following general remarks on these materials: 1. Most of the ritual formulae given in the fragments classified as pravrajyā and upasaṃpadā are given in Tocharian because the candidate is expected to understand fully the meaning of his (or her) own formal requests as well as that of the questions asked to him (or her) and the legal motions uttered by the saṅgha during the ceremonies where he (or she) re- 1 See SCHMIDT 1986 with the list of manuscripts on pp. 36-37. 2 There are no Karmavācanā texts among the Tocharian fragments kept in Japan and China that are accessible to me.