Translation:Qolasta/Prayer 40

by Mark Lidzbarski

XL.

I worshipped and praised Oṣar who created the Pihtā

for the hidden, first Uthras who sit in their heart.

The hidden Uthras posed in their Škīnās

and praised the mighty life in his Škīnā,

dear in its splendor, wondrous in its light.

I worshipped and praised that glorious, first vine,

whose interior is water, whose foliage is Uthras,

whose tendrils are shiners of light.

In its shade sit Uthras,

in the great first cloud of light.

They dwelled in the treasure of light,

and (in it) the hidden Mānā was created.

And praised be the life.

Mandaic transcription

sigdit u-šabatẖ l-ˁuṣar ḏ-pta pihta l-ˁutria kasiia qadmaiia ḏ-b-libaihun iatbia

qam ˁutria kasiia b-škinatun u-mšabilun l-hiia rurbia b-škinatun

iaqria b-ziuaihun u-šanin b-nhuraihun

sigdit u-šabatẖ l-hak gupna rišaia qadmaia ḏ-gauẖ mia

aupẖ ˁutria u-alauatẖ pasimkia ḏ-nhura b-ṭulẖ iatbia ˁutria

b-anana rabtia ḏ-nhura qadmaita

hubẖ b-ˁuṣar nhura

u-ˁtinṣib mana kasia

u-mšabin hiia

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