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The Asiet Malkia or Asut Malkia[1] ("Salutation of Kings"[2]) is one of the most commonly recited prayers in Mandaeism. In the prayer, the reciter wishes health and victory (asuta u-zakuta ࡀࡎࡅࡕࡀ ࡅࡆࡀࡊࡅࡕࡀ) upon dozens of heavenly and ancestral figures. According to E. S. Drower, it is recited daily by priests and also before all baptisms (masbuta), ritual meals (lofani), and various rites.[3]
The Asiet Malkia is numbered as Prayer 105 in E. S. Drower's version of the Qolasta, which was based on manuscript 53 of the Drower Collection (abbreviated DC 53).[4] Drower's version is shorter than the versions commonly recited by contemporary Mandaean priests.[5]
- ^ Nasoraia, Brikha H.S.; Crangle, Edward F. (2010). "The Asuta Wish". ARAM Periodical: 349–390. doi:10.2143/ARAM.22.0.2131045. ISSN 1783-1342.
- ^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2010). The great stem of souls: reconstructing Mandaean history. Piscataway, N.J: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-59333-621-9.
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Drower 1937was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Drower, E. S. (1959). The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
- ^ Salutation of Kings (Asiet malkia) recited by Rbai Rafid al-Sabti in the Netherlands. Mandaean Museum.