Scroll of Exalted Kingship

The Scroll of Exalted Kingship (Classical Mandaic: ࡃࡉࡅࡀࡍ ࡌࡀࡋࡊࡅࡕࡀ ࡏࡋࡀࡉࡕࡀ Diwan Malkuta ʿLaita) is a Mandaean religious text. Written as a large illustrated scroll, the text consists of 1,363 lines. The scroll is a commentary on tarmida (junior priest) initiation. Other related texts include The Coronation of the Great Shishlam, also a commentary on the initiation of the tarmida, and the two esoteric texts[1] Alma Rišaia Rabbā (The Great "First World", DC 41) and Alma Rišaia Zuṭa (The Lesser "First World", DC 48).[2]

Scroll of Exalted Kingship
Diwan Malkuta ʿLaita
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Manuscripts and translations

An English translation of the text, based on Manuscript 34 of the Drower Collection (commonly abbreviated DC 34), was published by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley in 1993.[3]

Contents
See also: Qolasta § List of prayers

The beginning of the scroll, from lines 7–227, references 103 prayers in the Qolasta, which are:[2]

  • a masbuta liturgy (prayers 1–31)
  • a masiqta liturgy (prayers 32–72)
  • 2 ʿngirta prayers (prayers 73 and 74)
  • 3 prayers of praise (prayers 75–77)
  • the ʿnianas (prayers 78–103)

The scroll describes what happens in the World of Light (such as being blessed by a certain uthra) for each Qolasta prayer that is recited.

The scroll has an illustrated diagram of a wellspring (bira) with 9 trees emerging out of the wellspring. The wellspring diagram contains the first 6 letters of the Mandaic alphabet (a ࡀ, b ࡁ, g ࡂ, d ࡃ, h ࡄ, u ࡅ), along with 14 sections labeled with the words teacher, crown, wreath, ether, fire, garment, stole, tunic, girdle, mother, father, brother, sister.[2]

Prayer sequence
Main article: Tarmida § Prayer sequence

See also

References
  1. Drower, E. S. 1963. A Pair of Naṣoraean Commentaries: Two Priestly Documents, the Great First World and the Lesser First World. Leiden: Brill.
  2. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
  3. Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (1993). The Scroll of Exalted Kingship: Diwan Malkuta ʿLaita. New Haven, Connecticut: American Oriented Society.
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