| Scroll of Exalted Kingship Diwan Malkuta ʿLaita ࡃࡉࡅࡀࡍ ࡌࡀࡋࡊࡅࡕࡀ ࡏࡋࡀࡉࡕࡀ | |
| Religion: | Mandaeism |
| Language: | Mandaic language |
The Scroll of Exalted Kingship (ࡃࡉࡅࡀࡍ ࡌࡀࡋࡊࡅࡕࡀ ࡏࡋࡀࡉࡕࡀ) 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]
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]
A typesetted Mandaic version of DC 34 was published by Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki in 2002.[4]
MS RRC 2O, another manuscript version of Diwan Malkuta Elaita, was copied by Sam Yuhana br Yahia Adam in Ḥuwaiza in 1077 A.H. (1666–7 A.D.).[5] Although it is missing a large section corresponding to lines 912–1131 of DC 34, it is often more accurate than DC 34.[6]
The beginning of the scroll, from lines 7–227, references 103 prayers in the Qulasta, which are:[2]
The scroll describes what happens in the World of Light (such as being blessed by a certain uthra) for each Qulasta prayer that is recited.
The scroll has an illustrated diagram of a wellspring (aina) 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]