Established in 1987 Tocharian and IndoEuropean Studies TIES is an international scholarly journal with contributions in English primarily German and French. The journals central topic is formed by the two closely related languages Tocharian A and B attested in Central Asian Buddhist manuscripts dating from the second half of the first millennium AD. It focuses on philological and linguistic aspects of Tocharian and its relation with the other IndoEuropean languages. Tocharian and IndoEuropean Studies is an international scholarly journal dedicated to the study of two closely related IndoEuropean languages Tocharian A and B attested in Central Asian manuscripts from the second half of the first millennium AD. This volume contains 11 articles by some of the worlds leading specialists on Tocharian as well as reviews of the most important publications in the field. The important article by Werner Winter was one of the last to be written by this outstanding scholar. Contents in Vol. 15 Douglas Q. Adams The polyvalent presentformative sk in Tocharian B Douglas Q. Adams A note on Tocharian B taccimar Ching Chaojung Perfumes in Ancient Kucha On the word tue attested in Kuchean monastic accounts Hannes A. Fellner Tocharian special agents The ntparticiples Ilya Itkin Apologia for the brahmin Badhari Some remarks on the meaning of the Tocharian A words tare pi and mal Frederik Kortlandt The Tocharian personal endings Melanie Malzahn Tocharian A sorki fear and two other TA scary words Dieter Maue An innocent abroad Reflections on PK DA M.507 4042 b 46 Ogihara Hirotoshi Fragments of secular documents in Tocharian A Michal Peyrot Notes on Tocharian glosses and colophons in Sanskrit manuscripts I GeorgesJean Pinault An etymological note about the Tocharian root ttk to extend GeorgesJean Pinault The one nightandday observance of layfollowers in Tocharian Buddhism.