{{Short description|Drinking water used in Mandaean rituals}} [[File:Mamboha 05.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Sheikh Salah Choheili blessing the mambuha contained in a ''qanina'' (glass bottle) during the 2014 Parwanaya in Sydney, Australia]] [[File:Qanina - Wallacia Mandi.jpg|thumb|right|300px|''Qanina'' (ritual glass bottle) used for holding ''mambuha'' at Wallacia Mandi during Parwanaya 2025]] {{Mandaeism}} In Mandaeism, '''mambuha''' ({{langx|myz|ࡌࡀࡌࡁࡅࡄࡀ}}, {{IPA|mid|mamˈbuha}}), sometimes spelled '''mambuga''' ({{langx|myz|ࡌࡀࡌࡁࡅࡂࡀ}}), is sacramental drinking water used in rituals such as the masbuta (baptism).<ref name="Buckley 2002">{{cite book|last=Buckley|first=Jorunn Jacobsen|title=The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people|publisher=Oxford University Press|publication-place=New York|year=2002|isbn=0-19-515385-5|oclc=65198443}}</ref><ref name="DC27">{{cite book|last=Burtea|first=Bogdan|title=Zihrun, das verborgene Geheimnis|publisher=Harrassowitz|publication-place=Wiesbaden|year=2008|isbn=978-3-447-05644-1|oclc=221130512|language=de|url=https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/%26Zihrun_das_verborgene_Geheimnis%26/titel_115.ahtml}}</ref>
The mambuha can be served in a ''kapta'' (pronounced ''kafta''), a shallow brass drinking bowl<ref name="SymbolicArt">{{cite book |last=van Rompaey |first=Sandra |title=Mandaean Symbolic Art |publisher=Brepols |publication-place=Turnhout |date=2024 |isbn=978-2-503-59365-4 |url=https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503593654-1}}</ref> that is 11 inches or less in perimeter, or in a ''qanina'' (glass bottle).<ref name="Drower 1937">Drower, Ethel Stefana. 1937. ''The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran''. Oxford At The Clarendon Press.</ref>
Traditionally, mambuha is taken directly from the ''yardna'' (river, i.e. the Euphrates, Tigris, or Karun rivers), but the Mandaean diaspora often uses treated tap water.
==Prayers== Various prayers in the ''Qulasta'', including prayers 33, 44, 45, 60, and 82, are recited during the drinking of the ''mambuha''.<ref name="Drower 1959">{{Cite book|title=The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans|last=Drower|first=E. S.|publisher=E. J. Brill|year=1959|location=Leiden}}</ref>
==See also== *Halalta (rinsing water) *Holy water *Holy water in Eastern Christianity
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==External links== {{Commons category|Mambuha}} *[https://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/55 Sydney 2014 Masbuta 09: Preparing and Blessing Pihtha and Mamboha]
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