Translation:Qolasta/Prayer 96

by Mark Lidzbarski

XCVI.

Provided, well provided I am,

the Uthras of light have provided me.

I am provided,

the life has provided me,

I am well provided for,

the Uthras of light have provided for me.

They provided me with the travel nourishment of the Kuštā,

they equipped me with all their wisdom.

Because of what was Ptahil,

why did he create the world?

Why did the plan come into being

and did they take me out of my place?

They sent me to the world of impulses,

which is all full of knots and seals.

It is all full of fire,

sowed with thorns and thistles.

It is all full of deceit,

full of deceit and lies.

The planets that dwell in it

daily plot evil against me.

They plot evil against me and say:

We want to make his sense ambivalent.

From my heart, which is filled with Kuštā, they say:

we want to make it stumble from us.

Of my eyes that look up to the light, they say:

let them give (unchaste) winks.

Of my mouth that praises life, they say:

let it speak lies.

Of my hands that give alms (and offer Kuštā), they say:

they shall murder.

Of my knees that bow down to life, they say:

they shall bow down to the 7.

Of my feet that walk the paths of the Kuštā (and faith), they say:

they shall walk barefoot.

I lifted up my eyes to the height,

with my soul I hoped for the house of life.

When life heard my call,

it sent a companion to meet me.

The attendant who came to meet me

brought me a splendid robe.

He revealed splendor and showed it to me,

and I laid down the stinking body.

He took me by the flat of my right hand

and led me across the streams of water.

Over the water streams he led me,

he guided me and supported me on the image of life.

The life supported the life,

the life found its own.

Life found its own,

and my soul found what it hoped for.

Life is upheld and is victorious,

and victorious is the man who went here.

Mandaic transcription

zidana u-mzaudana

ˁutria ḏ-nhura zaudun

zidana ḏ-zaudun hiia

u-mzaudana ḏ-ˁutria ḏ-nhura zaudun

zaudun b-zuadia kušṭa

u-zarzun b-kulẖ hukumtun

l-mahu hua ptahil

u-l-mahu qiriẖ l-alma

l-mahu huat hašabta

u-l-dilia mn atrai atiun

šihlun l-alma ḏ-tiqlata

ḏ-kulẖ giṭria u-hatmia mlia

kulẖ mlia nura

u-zria b-kuba u-aṭaṭa

kulẖ mlia bihrara

kulẖ zipa u-kadba mlia

šibiahia ḏ-dairibẖ

kul ium ˁlai l-biš mithašbia

mithašbia ˁlai b-k[b]išuta

u-amria ḏ-nipilgẖ l-ˁuṣrẖ

libai ḏ-mlia kušṭa

amria ḏ-mn dilan nakšlẖ

ainai ḏ-sakia l-nhura

amria ḏ-rimza nirimzan

pumai ḏ-barik l-hiia

amria ḏ-kadba nimar

ˁdai ḏ-iahba zidqa u-pašṭa kušṭa

amria ḏ-gaṭla nigiṭla

burkai ḏ-sagda l-hiia

amria l-šuba nisigda

ligrai ḏ-madrika dirkia ḏ-kušṭa u-haimanuta

amria b-hipia nasgia

ana ainai l-mrum šiqlit

nišmat l-bit hiia skit

hiia ḏ-šimuia l-qalai

šadar alanpai paruanqa

paruanqa ḏ-atia alanpai

aitilia ḏ-iaiia ˁuṣṭla

pta u-hauian ziua

u-šlatẖ l-pagrẖ zapra

ligṭan b-pras iamin

u-hapiqia mia abran

abran hapiqia mia

u-adbar badmu hiia asmkan

hiia smak l-hiia

u-hiia dilun aška

hiia aška dilun

u-aškat nišmat ḏ-msakia

mištaiin hiia u-zakin

u-zakia gabra ḏ-asgia lka

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