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1434. "Who is worthy of your so great weeping and sorrow? Death for your sake is far better than walking upon the earth!" Then P'hridon said to the king: "Make not bitterness to thyself from aught. May God in return render to thee a thousand joys!"
1435. Avt'handil also sympathized; he speaks with great sorrow. They rendered praise,[1] and said: "Let us now yield ourselves to smiling; since the lost lion has found the vanished sun, no more will we weep what is deplorable,[2] no longer will we set canals[3] in our eyes."
1436. Thither they went where is the great city Mulghazanzar.[4] They played trumpet[5] and kettledrum,[6] there was trampling[7] and uproar; the sound of drum[8] and copper drum[9] blended fairly; the burgesses crowded round, they left the bazaar.
1437. The merchants came from their rows,[10] on all sides there is a host of onlookers; the officers[11] kept a wide space round them,[12] they had arms in their hands; families[13] came crowding in, causing trouble[14] to the officers; their entreaty is to be allowed there to look upon them.
1438. At P'hridon's they alighted, they saw a pleasing palace,[15] many slaves with golden girdles met them, they have nought but gold brocade[16] as a carpet for their feet; they threw up gold above their heads, the crowd[17] marching there picked it up in heaps.
- ↑ ? to the dead or to their kinsfolk; keba, 1430.
- ↑ Satireli, 195.
- ↑ Mili, 284, 1528.
- ↑ 583.
- ↑ Buci, 46, 1017.
- ↑ Tablaci, 435, 1156, 1484.
- ↑ Zat'hki, 957, 1157.
- ↑ Dabdabi, 703.
- ↑ Kosi, P., 703.
- ↑ Shuca, A., street in a bazaar, souk, 463.
- ↑ Sarangi, P., guardian of order, police; 1157.
- ↑ Shors uarebdes; ? uareba, to refuse, deny, repel; ? aor. of reba.
- ↑ Djalabi, P., household (women, children and servants); 101, 714
- ↑ Damsadjari, 596.
- ↑ Mosatsonebi in pl., sra sing., but may have plural signification; if not, "the praiseworthy (or pleasing) ones saw a palace."
- ↑ Oksino, 320, 1359.
- ↑ Djari in Rust'haveli means "multitude, host," not necessarily "army, troops," unless qualified—e.g., by spa.
