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Psalms and Prayers is one of the
Seven Scriptures of Mani Manichaean scripture includes nine main books: the Seven Treatises of Manichaeism, all personally written by Mani in Syriac, the Shabuhragan written by Mani in Middle Persian, and the Arzhang, a series of illustrations painted by Mani. The Keph ...
. This scripture is transliterated as "Afuyin Bu" () in Chinese, which is derived from Medieval Persian "" Or
Parthian Parthian may refer to: Historical * Parthian people * A demonym "of Parthia", a region of north-eastern of Greater Iran * Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD) * Parthian language, a now-extinct Middle Iranian language * Parthian shot, an archery sk ...
"", which means "praise".Mary Boyce, ''A Word-List of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian'', pp. 8-9.


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This scripture mainly contains poems written by Mani and his disciples. It is recorded in the Coptic "The Second Part of the Hymnal Collection" that Mani wrote two hymns, but these two poems are not found in the existing collection of Coptic poems. The Parthian document M40 R is said to be a fragment of "Vuzurgān Afrīwān" (Vuzurgān Afrīwān), praising the
Father of Greatness The Father of Greatness (Middle Aramaic ; zh, t=明尊, p=Míngzūn, l=Radiant Lord) is the eternal divine manifestation of good in Manichaeism,Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer. ''The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition'', Shambhala Publ ...
, and is a translation of Mani's original
Aramaic Aramaic (; ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, Sinai, southeastern Anatolia, and Eastern Arabia, where it has been continually written a ...
text. Parthian documents M538 and M75 are said to be fragments of the "Little Praise Sutra" (Qšūdagān Afrīwān), praising the Father, the Twelve Kings of Light, the world of light, the spirit of life, and the place of praise.


See also

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Mani Mani may refer to: People * Mani (name), (), a given name and surname (including a list of people with the name) ** Mani (prophet) (c. 216–274), a 3rd century Iranian prophet who founded Manichaeism ** Mani (musician) (born 1962), an English ...
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Seven Sutras of Mani 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, supers ...
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Manichaeism Manichaeism (; in ; ) is an endangered former major world religion currently only practiced in China around Cao'an,R. van den Broek, Wouter J. Hanegraaff ''Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times''. SUNY Press, 1998 p. 37 found ...


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