CHAPTER IV

Concerning two clans that were separated within the land of Armenia, concerning the Manavazians and the Ordunis.

And at that time, a great disturbance arose in the land of the Armenians, because two great ministers and princes, rulers of provinces and landowners, fell against one another, and with great spite, they raised a fight and waged a war against each other without any legal cause. And they disturbed the great land of Armenia: the prince of the Manavazian clan and the other, the patriarch of the Orduni clan. They fought against each other with a great war, and there was much loss of life and slaughter. Then King Khosrov and the great high priest Vrtanes sent the honorable, great bishop Aghbianos to them, to speak of peace and reconciliation. The blessed Aghbianos went and arrived in their midst to correct and conquer them, and to reconcile them with each other. They insulted him, and did not listen to the intercession of the church; they disregarded the envoys, sent the bishop away with great abuse, and took and ravaged the royal house. And having become enraged with severity, they immediately engaged each other in the battle of war. Then, with great wrath and much indignation, the king sent against them Vache, the son of Artavazd, the patriarch of the Mamikonian clan—from the race of the sparapets military commanders of Armenia—the great general of his armies, to destroy and wipe out both clans. Then the general Vache went and arrived against them; he struck and drove back both clans, and did not leave either of the two clans any opportunity for fighting, and he himself returned to the King of Armenia, Khosrov.