Scroll of Exalted Kingship

Short description: Mandaean text

Scroll of Exalted Kingship
Diwan Malkuta ʿLaita
ࡃࡉࡅࡀࡍ ࡌࡀࡋࡊࡅࡕࡀ ࡏࡋࡀࡉࡕࡀ

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Religion| Mandaeism
Language| Mandaic language

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 1363 lines. The scroll is a commentary on the initiation of the tarmida "junior priest".

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 Rba "The Great 'First World'", DC 41 and Alma Rišaia Zuṭa "The Lesser 'First World'", DC 48.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Manuscripts and translations
* 2 Contents
* 3 Prayer sequence
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## 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

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

## See also

* The Thousand and Twelve Questions

## 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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.

## External links

* Diwan Malkutha 'laitha (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
* Diwan Malkutha 'laitha (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)

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