Prologue
The poet's invocation: praise of God, tribute to Queen Tamar, and a meditation on love, poetry, and the origins of this tale—a Persian story retold in Georgian verse.
Sources & Edition
~16 min · 31 stanzas
Tavakalashvili, 1646
Mamuka Tavakalashvili, 1646 manuscript (H-599) — Public Domain (Wikimedia Commons)