Tabahatan

The Ṭabahatan (

Classical Mandaic: ࡈࡀࡁ ࡈࡀࡁࡀ ࡋࡈࡀࡁࡉࡀ, lit. 'Good is the Good for the Good'). A different version of this prayer is found in DC 42, Šarḥ ḏ-Ṭabahata ("The Scroll of Ṭabahata" [Parents]), which is used during Parwanaya rituals.^[1]

The Ṭabahatan prayer is numbered as Prayer 170 in

Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 53).^[2] The Šal Šulta (Prayer 171) directly follows the Ṭabahatan prayer.^[3]

Prayer

Drower's (1959) version of the Tabahatan lists the following uthras and ancestors.^[2]

"Our forefathers":

Dmut
-Hiia
Abatur, son of Bihrat
Habšaba and Kana-d-Zidqa
the 24 ʿuthras, sons of light
Zahriel
Adam, son of Qin and Eve, his wife
Šitil
, son of Adam
Ram and Rud
Šurbai and Šarhabiel
Sam, son of Noah, and Nuraita his wife
Yahia-Yuhana, son of ʿNišbai, and Qinta, and Anhar, his wife
those 360 priests who went forth from Jerusalem
our good fathers
me, Adam-Zihrun, son of Mahnuš

my father, Yahia-Bihram, son of Hawa-Mamania
my mother, Mahnuš, daughter of Simat
my teacher, Bihram, son of Mudalal
his wife, Anhar, daughter of Hawa
my children, Anhar, daughter of Anhar
my brothers (and sisters), Anhar, and Sam, and Mudalal, and Ram
Muhatam-Yuhana, and Adam-Yuhana, the sons of Mahnuš

"Mandaeans":

Ram, son of Šarat-Simat
Zihrun, son of Simat
Anhar, daughter of Simat
Simat, daughter of Hawa
Ram, son of Simat
Yasmin, daughter of Yasman
our good fathers
me, Adam-Zihrun, son of Mahnuš

"Priests":

my teacher, Bihram, son of Mudalal
Adam-Zihrun, son of Mamania
Yahia-Anuš, son of Maliha
Yahia-Ram-Zihrun, son of Hawa-Simat
Yahia-Zihrun, son of Mudalal
Sam-Bihram, son of Mudalal
our good forefathers
me, Adam-Zihrun, son of Mahnuš

"

Ganzibria

":

my teacher, Bihram, son of Mudalal
Yahia-Yuhana, son of Hawa-Simat
Zihrun, son of Simat
Sam-Bihram, son of Simat
Bihram-Šitil, son of Šarat
Zihrun, son of Maliha
Adam, son of Šadia-Maliha
Yahia-Bayan and Yahia-Bihram, sons of Hawa-Mamania
Ram-Yuhana, son of Mamania
Bayan-Zangia, son of Anhar-Simat
Sam-Saiwia, son of Šarat
Bihram, son of Madinat
Yahia, son of Anhar-Ziwa
Ram-Sindan and Šaria
Hawa, daughter of Daia
Anhar-Kumraita, daughter of Simat
Yahia-Ramuia, son of Ramuia
Sam-Bihram, son of Mudalal
Adam, son of Bihram (Bihrat?)-Dihgan
Adam-Br-Hiia, son of Simat
Brik-Yawar, son of Buran
Bihram Bisḥaq, son of Hawa
Šabur, son of Dukt
Mhatam and Šitil, sons of Haiuna
Anuš, son of Mihria-Zad
Šaiar-Ziwa and Šabur, son (sons?) of Kaizarʿil (them?)
Bhira, son of Kujasta
Zakia, son of Hawa
Ardaban-Malka-Baktiar, son of Simat
our good fathers
me, Adam-Zihrun, son of Mahnuš

"The ethnarchs":

my teacher, Bihram, son of Mudalal
Adam-Bul-Faraz, son of Hawa-Mamania
Anuš Muʿailia, son of Hawa-Zadia
Yahia-Adam, son of Zadia-Anuš, Hawa (?) (them?)
Bihdad, son of Šadia
Bainia, son of Haiuna
Haiuna, daughter of Tihwia
Ramuia, son of ʿQaimat
Šganda, son of Yasman
Zazai-d-Gawazta
, son of Hawa

References

^
ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9
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^ ^a ^b Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
^ Drower, E. S. (1960). The secret Adam: a study of Nasoraean gnosis. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[Buckley2010-1] 
ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9
.

[Drower_1959-2] Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.

[Secret_Adam-3] Drower, E. S. (1960). The secret Adam: a study of Nasoraean gnosis. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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