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grandfather of Agharsane the father of Ashot, a grandfather or the father of
the grandfather, one of the representatives of the Armenian Bagratuni by
Moktsevai Kartlisai the son of Baghdad came to Kartli with the sons of
Guaram Kurapalate, to be more precise, the sons of Guaram: the Erismtavari
of Kartli Stepanoz, his brother Demetre and the son of Stepanoz Agharsane,
who were representatives (Sanadze, 2002. 18-19. pp. 41) of Baghdat-Bivriant
in their turn and became the relative of Stepanoz by making his son marry
Latavra, the daughter of Stepanoz. In this way, two branches of Bagaghads:
the Georgian Bivritiani and Armenian Bagratun – merged into one. If the text
of Kartli Tskhovreba uses the word “father” in a generic sense, to mean a fore-
father, the inscription of the Sina Mountain Manuscript uses the word
“mother” in the same sense. 
The respective part of Kartlis Tskhovreba was wrongly interpreted by
Vardan, an Armenian historian of XIII century. He changed Adarnase the
Blind, whom he was not informed about, to Ashot the Blind, whom he knew
from history. Since, according to Kartlis Tskhovreba, Adarnase was the
nephew of the person whose name was changed to Ashot the Blind (the list
of Anas). The historian considerd Vasak to be his father, based on simple cal-
culations. I.e. he carried out scientific research and established a fact (Arev-
eltsi, 2002. pp. 103, 106). Many of the modern historians repeated the mistake
of Vardan. After the publication of the inscription of the Sina Manuscript, it be-
cause clear that this opinion was groundless. 
All the above mentioned explains the family conflict that took place when
the Erismtavari of Kartli (the son and her or Archil  Erismtavri) Juansher  mar-
ried Latavra (the daughter of Aghsarane Bagrationi). The thing is that this
branch of the offspring of Baghdad did not belong to royal family of Kartli
Khosroian-Parnavazian, the same Sasanian-Parnavazian. Such wereL 1. only
the offspring of Vakhtang Gorgasali: the Bakuriani from Kakheti, 2. the Bivrit-
ian-Gorgasalian, the same offspring of Guaram Kurapalate in Klarjeti; 3. the
offspring of Rev the son of Mirian – the Revians in Kakheti, who we believe
were the same Ruvistavi or Rustaveli (Sanadze, Kartlis Eristavebi...p. 31).
Shota Rustaveli (Beradze, Sanadze, 2003. p. 191) should be from the same
family and last – 4 the Perozian. As for the sons of Baghdat, who became the
relatives of Erismtavari Stepanoz by marriage and whose relation with him
could be defined as feudal dependence, no doubt their position was lower
than that of the Bakuriani, who led even in the other Parnavazianta royal
branch as the representatives of the senior branch. 
Let us come back to the family of the Bakuriani again. Grigol, the noble-
man of Kakheti, who fought Ashot for Shida Kartli and the honour of the
Erismtavari of Kartli - should have been Bakuriani. What does this assump-
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tion give us? First, as it has already been mentioned that the Bakuriani are a
Kakhetian branch of the Parnavazian-Khosroians. Nerse, being the Erism-
tavari of Kakheti, ascends the throne of Kakheti. It is a fact that Kakheti re-
mains their domain in the later period, too. (Let us recall the control over
Kakheti by Archil Erismtavari – the grandson of Nesre I, Juansher - the son of
the latter and the following Erismtavari).  Both sons of Nesre pass away dur-
ing his lifetime: Adarnase (called after his grandfather) – 783 and Philim -
784 (called after his uncle) (Aleksidze, p. 314). Z Aleksidze, the publisher of
the Sina Monuscrip inscription, considers (Aleksidze, p. 314) them both
Erismtavaris, for some reason. Yet, according to the manuscript, if a scholar
does not have additional information, the note cannot be relied upon. Just the
opposite, it is clear that the brothers did not have the honour of Erismtavari.
Al Mahdi (775-785), angry with Nerse, deprived the family of the latter of the
title of Erismtavari and conferred the title on the representative of the same
family Stepanoz. Stepanoz was not only the nephew of Nerse but also the son
of his cousin, too. We believe so as we consider Gurge - his father, the Eristavt-
eristavi to be the grandson of Nerse. Of course, it is hard to say for sure from
which specific family of the Bakuriani, a Kakhetian nobleman Grigol comes
from. We can only make a conjecture in this case, too: we believe that he was
the younger son of Nerse. 1. This was the first name in the family - a person
was called Grigol for the first time. If we recall that Nerse had children who
had the name of their father and his brother, presumably he called his young
son the name of his father-in-law. We know that the nephew of the wife of
Nesre was Grigol (Grigol Khandzteli) which is an indication that the name of
Grigol’s father-in-law was Grigol. Which family did Nerse’s wife belong to, if
her father’s name was Grigol? It is obvious that Nerse would only have mar-
ried a royal person. We only know one royal family where there was a name
Grigol. This is the Revian, the same Ruvistavian family (Kartlis Tskhovreba, I.
p. 159). In this way, the name Grigol appears in the Bakuriani family from the
Revian family and the first person to have this name is the young son of Nerse
Grigol Bakuriani who, after his family lost the Erismtavari title, was the
Kakheti principal in VIII-IX centuries.    
Later Tsanari Donauris take power away from Bakuriani-Bakurianisdzes
in Kakheti. The former had the title Chorepiskopos. After that, the history of
the Bakuriani family is not known for the following two centuries. They ap-
pear in sources again in the retinue of King Giorgi. This is Bakuriani, the father
of Grigol Bakurianisdze, whom we have already mentioned above. 
As we remember Grigol’s father passed away early and Grigol’s mother
left him and his brother Abaz without an estate – She had given all the estate
to her daughters as dowry. The husband of one of the daughters, Abaz, was
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