A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Ketavane
On the death of her husband, took upon her the administration of affairs, and preserved the throne for her eldest son.
In 1613, Abbas, king of Persia, having declared war against the Georgians, her son, who had received the reins of government, perceiving that many of the nobility inclined to submission, sent his mother to Ispahan, to demand pardon for him. As Ketavane was yet beautiful though stricken in years. Abbas fell, or pretended to fall, violently in love with her at first sight. He offered to marry her, if she would become a Mahometan; but she refused, and he kept her in prison and in irons for many years. At last she was sent to Schiraz, where she died under the torments inflicted upon her by the order of Abbas, to make her embrace Islamism.