The list below contains the 414 Mandaean prayers in E. S. Drower's 1959 Canonical Prayerbook (also known as the Qulasta), along with their ritual uses. Many of the prayers are identical or nearly identical duplicates of other prayers in the prayerbook, as listed in the "corresponding prayer" column in the below.
Introduction
Opening lines, which exclude frequently used formulas such as "In the name of Hayyi Rabbi", are included since the original scribal commentaries in the Qulasta manuscripts, as well as external priestly esoteric commentaries (e.g., Scroll of Exalted Kingship), typically refer to each Qulasta prayer by its opening line rather than by an ordered number. The English translations of the opening lines are from Drower (1959), while the Mandaic transcriptions of the opening lines, when available, are from Mark Lidzbarski's Mandäische Liturgien (1920). A list of opening lines is also listed in Al-Mubaraki (2010).
Drower (1959) also categorizes the prayers into different sections. Originally, some of these sections had historically been separate manuscripts before they had been compiled by Mandaean scribes into single codices (books) such as MS Drower 53 (also known as DC 53).
Each prayer is typically recited only for a specific stage of a certain ritual, as listed in the "commentary" column below. For example, see Tarmida § Prayer sequence for a detailed list of prayers recited during different stages of the tarmida initiation ceremony.
Corresponding prayers in Lidzbarski's Mandäische Liturgien (1920) are also provided.
List
See also
- Qulasta
- Sidra d-Nishmata
References
External links
- Audio recordings of Qulasta prayers
- Asut malkia
- Salutation of Kings (Asut malkia) (Qulasta 105) recited by Rbai Rafid al-Sabti in the Netherlands (RRC: AUDIO-A2)
- Salutation of Kings (Asut malkia) (Qulasta 105) recited by Abdullah Khaffagi in Ahvaz in 1960
- Salutation of Kings (Asut malkia) (Qulasta 105) recited at a Parwanaya service in Michigan
- Prayers recited by Rbai Rafid al-Sabti in the Netherlands
- Mn iardna silqit – "I rose up from the river" (Qulasta 21) (RRC: AUDIO-A12)
- Nukraiia (Qulasta 49) (RRC: AUDIO-A9)
- Zidana u-mzaudana (Qulasta 96) (RRC: AUDIO-A22)
- Prayers recited by Tarmida Yuhana Nashmi in Sydney, Australia
- Qadmaiia nukraiia (Qulasta prelude)
- Zhir u-mzahar Zihrun (Qulasta 2)
- Riha ḏ-basim (Qulasta 8)
- ʿsir iama (Qulasta 15)
- Manda Qran (Qulasta 19)
- Hal hiia qadmaiia (Qulasta 34)
- Ṭab ṭaba l-ṭaba (Qulasta 72)
- Qum qum (Qulasta 106)
- Prayers recited by Najah Choheili in Ahvaz, Iran
- Buta drabša (Qulasta prayers CP 337-339 = Oxford Collection 4.8-11)
