InMandaeism, arahma (Classical Mandaic:ࡓࡀࡄࡌࡀ; plural form:rahmiaࡓࡀࡄࡌࡉࡀ) is a daily devotional prayer that is recited during a specific time of the day or specific day of the week.[1] There is a total of approximately 60 rahma prayers, which together make up theEniania ḏ-Rahmia (modern Mandaic:Enyāni d-Rahmi[2]), a section of theQulasta that follows theAsut Malkia prayer.[3]
E. S. Drower's version of theQulasta, theCanonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans, has 64 rahma prayers translated into English that are numbered from 106 to 169. In Drower's ordering, the rahma prayers directly follow theAsut Malkia prayer (CP 105), while theṬabahatan prayer (CP 170) comes after the rahma prayers.[4]
The first 13 prayers are recited during the three times of the day for prayer, which are dawn (sunrise), noontime (the "seventh hour"), and evening (sunset).
Oxford 1.1 (CP 106): opening prayer ("stand up" and "praise")
Oxford 1.7 (CP 112): opening evening prayer (short prayer praising Hayyi, Manda d-Hayyi, and the Great Countenance of Glory)
CP 108, 109, and 112 (short prayer praising Hayyi, Manda d-Hayyi, and the Great Countenance of Glory) are duplicates. Another set of duplicate prayers ("GoodShganda of Light") consists ofCP 107 and 111.
There are 6 rahma prayers for each day of the week. Each set consists of alternating long and short prayers (i.e., the 1st prayer is a long one, the 2nd prayer is a short one, while the 3rd prayer is again a long one, etc.).
^Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002).The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-515385-5.OCLC65198443.
^Häberl, Charles (2022).The Book of Kings and the Explanations of This World: A Universal History from the Late Sasanian Empire. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.ISBN978-1-80085-627-1.
^abAl-Mubaraki, Majid Fandi; Mubaraki, Brian (2010).Qulasta - 'niania & Qabina / Mandaean Liturgical Prayer Book (Responses & Marriage) (volume 2). Luddenham, New South Wales: Mandaean Research Centre.ISBN9781876888152.
^Drower, E. S. (1959).The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
^Lidzbarski, Mark. 1920.Mandäische Liturgien. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, phil.-hist. Klasse, NF 17.1. Berlin.
