Scroll of the Parwanaya

Scroll of the Parwanaya
Šarḥ ḏ-Parwanaia
A photocopy of the Scroll of the Parwanaya used at the 2014 Parwanaya festival in Sydney, Australia
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ReligionMandaeism
LanguageMandaic language
A ganzibra reading the Scroll of the Parwanaya at the 2015 Parwanaya festival in Ahvaz, Iran

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]

  1. ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.

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