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Movses Dasxurants'i's
History of the Aghuans
Translated from Classical Armenian
by Robert Bedrosian
To the memory of unforgettable friends, Anya and Jacques Kayaloff
Sources of the Armenian Tradition (Long Branch, New Jersey, 2010)
This translation is in the public domain. It may be copied and distributed freely.
Translator's Preface
A Note on Pagination
Online:
Chronological Tables
Maps
Book 1
Chapters 1-4.
1. Preamble to the
History of the Aghuans.
2. The genealogy of Japheth's line.
3. The countries which know writing.
4. Vagharshak establishes a government for the Aghuans.
Chapters 5-6.
5. Exposition on the fertility and abundance of Aghuania, and what it has for the needs of
humankind.
6. Knowledge of the appearance of God comes to us easterners. Accurate history.
Chapters 7-9.
7. Discovery of the relics of Saint Elisha, Illuminator of the East.
8. From [the time of] Ar'an until King Ur'nayr we have not found [chronologically] arranged
narratives, rather [this period] was recorded only in passing, [detailing] what was needed to
inform.
9. Ur'nayr believes and is baptized by Saint Gregory and, with one accord, the Aghuans are
illuminated by King Ur'nayr.
Chapters 10-12.
10. Regarding Vach'e', king of the Aghuans; how he abandoned pagan error and believed in the
living God, and how he became a cenobite living a blessed life in the wilderness following war
with Persia.
11. The letter from Bishop Giwt [of Armenia] to Saint Vach'e'.
12. Trdat wars against the king of the Basilk' in the land of the Aghuans; Sanatruk's rule as king
over the Aghuans and his resistance to the Armenians; the arrival of Xosrov with his troops in
aid; his taking of Aghuania and imposition of taxation.
Chapters 13-14.
13. Shapuh enthrones Tiran; he is saved from the northerners; he blinds Tiran; the disturbance
among the northerners; the death of Arshak and the enthronement of Pap; the fall of Mehruzhan
and the wound that Ur'nayr received in that battle.
14. A brief account of Saint Gregory, Illuminator of the Armenians, and about his venerable sons;
the ordination of Saint Grigoris, son of Vrt'ane's, grandson of the great Saint Gregory, to the
kat'oghikosate
of the Aghuans and Iberians/Georgians; his coming to the land of the Aghuans for
its illumination; his martyrdom and the bringing of his relics.
Chapter 15.
List of the names of the succession of rulers who are known from [the time of] Japheth and Ar'an
until Vach'agan III.
Chapter 16.
The institutions created by King Vach'agan for the Aghuans as well as his life and deeds and the
discovery of the relics of the Saints.
Chapter 17.
The enthronement of Vagharshak, and how Vach'agan received his kingdom of Aghuania from
him.
Chapter 18.
The establishment by King Vach'agan of royal schools for the evil-born children of sorcerers; the
discovery of the unclean sect of finger-cutters and their end.
Chapter 19.
The discovery of the relics of the blessed Zacharias, father of John, and of the blessed Pantaleon
who was martyred in the city of Nicomedia, which the young Grigoris had brought to the land of
the Chighbs.
Chapter 20.
The discovery of the relics of the blessed youth Grigoris, who had been martyred in the presence
of King Sane'san of the Masgut'k'.
Chapter 21.
King Vach'agan's letter to all the bishops and priests asking that, through their prayers, the hidden
treasure might be revealed to him.
Chapter 22.
The venerable monk Job converts the very large district of Parskank' in Artsakh.
Chapter 23.
In the same assembly Xochkorik, the illegitimate son of the Aghuan king Esuaghe'n, who had
been appointed a governor, narrates to the king a vision he had.
Chapters 24-25.
24. King Vach'agan's question to the learned priest Matt'e'.
25. The letter from the blessed Abraham, bishop of the Mamikoneans, to Vach'agan, king of
Aghuania, concerning the dead.
Chapter 26.
The canons of Vach'agan, king of the Aghuans, issued at the assembly at Aghue'n.
Chapter 27.
Narrative history about Saint Mesrop and his companions.
Chapter 28.
An account of Saint Mashtots' students is presented below.
Chapter 29.
The invasion of all the borders of Aghuania, Armenia, and Georgia by the Northerners, and the
martyrdom of Mesrob's students.
Chapter 30.
The great general of the Tubal troops believes in Christ, [and accepts] that He is God; and how
[the general] is martyred with his troops, children, and his clergy by his king in the land of the
Aghuans.
Book 2
Chapter 1.
History according to my book.
Chapter 2.
How the Aghuans were threatened by the impious Yazdgird and were saved by Vardan,
Armenia's general.
Chapter 3.
Mesrob
Vardapet
comes to Esuaghe'n, king of Aghuania, invents an alphabet, organises schools
again, and destroys the remaining sects, confirming the faith in the house of the Aghuans
Chapter 4.
The transfer of the patriarchal see of Aghuania from Ch'oray to the great city of Partaw due to
the Khazars' destructive raids.
Chapter 5.
The appearance of the martyrs on Mount Dizap'ayt and the discovery of their relics in the time of
Abas' patriarchate.
Chapter 6.
The vision of Vehik.
Chapters 7-8.
7. The letter from Yovhanne's,
kat'oghikos
of Armenia, to Lord Abas,
kat'oghikos
of Aghuania,
concerning the confirmation of the Faith.
8. The expulsion from Aghuania of the heretics whom Lord Abas,
kat'oghikos
of Aghuania,
exiled on receipt of the above letter.
Chapter 9.
History of the rising of barbarian peoples and about the universal disasters which befell the lands.
Chapter 10.
This historical account begins from the first [year] of the 18th
nahanj.
Chapter 11.
How Xosrov mobilized his troops against the emperor of Byzantium and defeated him for many
years by sword and enslavement on Byzantine territory.
Chapter 12.
Arrival of the Northern troops to aid Heraclius.
Chapter 13.
The slaying of Xosrov.
Chapter 14.
Concerning Viroy, head of the
kat'oghikosate
of Aghuania, and the great tribulations and the
mercies of God
Chapter 15.
About the famine, sword, and captivity which occurred together.
Chapter 16.
About the great miracles which avenged us of our enemies.
Chapter 17.
How the Mihrakan clan, which derived from the line of Xosrov the Sasanian, became head of the
Aghuan Houses.
Chapter 18.
The deeds and valor of the great prince Juanshir, second son of Varaz-Grigor, who demonstrated
bravery and courage among the Persians.
Chapter 19.
Concerning the
sparapetut'iwn
of Juanshir, his victories over the Persians, the death of Yazdgird,
and Juanshir's submission to the emperor of Byzantium.
Chapter 20.
Juanshir's letter to Constantine [Constans II, 641-668], emperor of the Byzantines.
Chapter 21.
Text of the document [of Constans II's reply].

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