Abbreviations and References
Introduction
The Lord of the Panther-skin
Prologue
Of Rostevan, the king of the Arabs
How King Rostevan and Avtandil went hunting
How the king of the Arabs saw the lord of the panther-skin
How Tinatin charged Avtandil with the quest for the stranger lord
How Avtandil wrote out a charge to his vassals
How Avtandil went in search of the stranger lord
How Avtandil told Asmat his story at the cave
How Tariel and Avtandil met
How Tariel told Avtandil his tale
How Tariel fell in love
Nestan-Darejan's first letter to her lover
How Tariel wrote to his lady
How Tariel sent a letter to the Cathayans
How Nestan summoned Tariel
How the Cathayan king sent Tariel his reply
How Tariel and Nestan held converse together
How Tariel rode to Cathay and fought a great battle there
How Tariel wrote to the king of the Indians, and how he returned home in triumph
How Nestan-Darejan wrote to her lover
How Tariel wept and swooned
How Tariel wrote in answer to his lady
How they took counsel concerning the marriage of Nestan-Darejan
How Tariel and Nestan-Darejan took counsel together and made a plan
How the Khvarizm-shah's son came to India to be married, and how Tariel killed him
How Tariel learned of the carrying-off of Nestan-Darejan
How Tariel met Nuradin-Pridon
How Tariel gave help to Pridon
How Tariel received word of Nestan-Darejan from Pridon
How Avtandil returned to Arabia
How Avtandil dispatched a request to King Rostevan, and how the vizier gave utterance
How Avtandil talked with Shermadin
How Avtandil wrote a testament for the eyes of King Rostevan
How Avtandil prayed
How King Rostevan learned of Avtandil's flight
How Avtandil set out to rejoin Tariel
How Avtandil found Tariel lying in a swoon
How Tariel told of the killing of the lion and the panther
How Tariel and Avtandil returned to the cave and found Asmat
How Avtandil set out for Pridon's city
How Avtandil journeyed to Pridon's city
How Avtandil departed from Pridon's realm to search for Nestan-Darejan, and how he met with a caravan
How Avtandil arrived in Gulansharo
How Fatima conceived a passion for Avtandil
How Fatima wrote Avtandil a love-letter
How Avtandil replied to Fatima
How Fatima told of Nestan-Darejan
How Fatima told Avtandil of the Kajes' capture of Nestan-Darejan
How Fatima wrote to Nestan-Darejan
How Nestan-Darejan wrote to Fatima
How Nestan-Darejan wrote to her lover
How Avtandil wrote to Pridon
How Avtandil departed from Gulansharo and returned to Tariel
How Tariel and Avtandil journeyed to Pridon's realm
How Nuradin-Pridon put forward a plan
How Avtandil put forward a plan
How Tariel put forward a plan
How Tariel went to meet the king of the Seas
How Pridon held a marriage festival for Tariel and Nestan-Darejan
How the three heroes went to Tariel's cave, and thence to Arabia
How the king of the Arabs held a marriage festival for Avtandil and Tinatin
How Tariel learned of the death of the king of the Indians
How Tariel arrived in India, and how the Cathayans made submission to him
How the marriage of Tariel and Nestan-Darejan was celebrated
Epilogue
Appendix A
Personal beauty and planetary imagery
Appendix B
"Generous" weeping and the demonstrative gesture
Notes
The Lord of the Panther-skin: A Georgian Perspective
A.G. Baramidze
Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian S.S.R.