Vachagan III

[3] Although sources don't give date for end of Vachagan's reign, Hakobyan puts it into 523, about the time of Kavad I's invasion of Georgia and abolishment of Iberian monarchy.

[4] He opened religious schools in the country and recovered the Grigoris' and Saint Pantaleon's relics and buried them in a tomb within the Amaras Monastery with help of his uncle Khochkorik.

[5] Hakobyan considers chapter on Vachagan's life as a tale and an image of the ideal and the good Christian ruler.

[2] Later princely houses in the region, such as the Aranshahiks (authors such as Patrick Donabédian[6] and Bagrat Ulubabyan are supporters of this theory) and the Hasan-Jalalyans claimed descent from him.

The tale was retold as romantic prose by Ghazaros Aghayan[2] (adapted into the film Anahit in 1947) and as a children's story by Robert San Souci.