Scroll of the Parwanaya Šarḥ ḏ-Parwanaia | |
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A photocopy of the Scroll of the Parwanaya used at the 2014 Parwanaya festival in Sydney, Australia
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Religion | Mandaeism |
Language | Mandaic language |
The Scroll of the Parwanaya (Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡀࡓࡇ ࡖࡐࡀࡓࡅࡀࡍࡀࡉࡉࡀ Šarḥ ḏ-Parwanaiia) is a Mandaean religious text that describes the rituals of the five-day Parwanaya festival. Excluding the colophon, the text consists of 931 lines.[1]
Copies of the scroll include Manuscript 24 of the Drower Collection (DC 24), currently held at the Bodleian Library.[2] The scroll was originally copied by Yahya Bihram in 1832 at his sister's son's house in Muhammerah (Khorramshahr), Iran.[3] The scroll was analyzed and translated into German by Bogdan Burtea in 2005.[2][4]
The contents of the scroll are as follows.[2]