Scroll of the Parwanaya

The Scroll of the Parwanaya ( ) is a Mandaean religious text that describes the rituals of the five-day Parwanaya festival. Excluding the colophon, the text consists of 931 lines.

Manuscripts and translations

Copies of the scroll include Manuscript 24 of the Drower Collection (DC 24), currently held at the Bodleian Library. The scroll was originally copied by Yahya Bihram in 1832 at his sister's son's house in Muhammerah (Khorramshahr), Iran. The scroll was analyzed and translated into German by Bogdan Burtea in 2005.

Contents

The contents of the scroll are as follows.

• Lines 1–81: Ritual preliminaries
• Lines 82–99: Å¡arḥ ḏ-qnasa ḏ-iuna ḏ-paruanaiia () "The dove sacrifice of the Parwanaya"
• Lines 99–243: Å¡arḥ ḏ-dukrana lhdaia rba zadiqa () "The memorial of the dead (dukrana) of the only great righteous"
• Lines 244–300: Å¡arḥ ḏ-ahaba ḏ-mania b-iuma ḏ-paruanaiia mandaiia gabra eu enta eu rba eu zuá¹­a () "The offering of the garments on the day of Parwanaya (to all) Mandaeans, man or woman, great or small"
• Lines 301–342: Å¡arḥ ḏ-ahaba ḏ-mania ḏ-tarmida eu ganzibra () "The offering of the garments of a priest or a ganzibra"
• Lines 343–578: Å¡arḥ ḏ-á¹­abahata () "The fathers/parents (á¹­abahata)"
• Lines 579–806: Å¡arḥ ḏ-dukrana ḏ-sumaiia () "The remembrance of the dead (dukrana) of the names"
• Lines 807–931: Å¡arḥ ḏ-zidqa brika ḏ-paruanaiia () "The blessed alms of the Parwanaya"
• Lines 932–53v: colophon

See also

• List of Mandaic manuscripts
• Parwanaya

References

External links

• Sharh Diwan d-Parwanaia (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
• Sharh Diwan d-Parwanaia (Mandaic text from the Mandaean Network)
• Sydney 2014 Masiqta 03: Diwan ed Sharah ed Parwanaii (Manuscript used to explain Masiqta)