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The Shumhata (
Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡅࡌࡄࡀࡕࡀ, romanized: Šumhata, lit. 'Names') is one of the most commonly recited prayers in Mandaeism.[1]
The rushma is numbered as Prayer 173 in
Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 53).[3]
Prayer
Like the Asiet Malkia, the Shumhata is a litany which lists following the names (in Drower's 1959 version).[2]
- Hayyi Rabbi and Manda d-Hayyi
- aina (well-spring)
- sindirka (date palm or sandarac[4] tree)
- Shishlam Rabba
- Zlat
- Yawar
- Simat Hayyi
- Yukabar
- Mana and his counterpart
- Great Mystery, the mystic Word
- S'haq Ziwa
- Sam
See also
- Brakha (daily prayer in Mandaeism)
- Asiet Malkia
- Tabahatan
- Rushma
- Rahma (Mandaeism)
- Qolasta
- Rishama (ablution)
- Tamasha (ablution)
References
- ^ Choheili, Shadan. Rishama and Barakha Rituals. Liverpool, NSW: Ganzibra Dakhil Mandi.
- ^ a b Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
- ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
- ISBN 9780648795414.