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the house of Angl wrestling together with the greatest fury. Having 

 made a violent rush, he chopped off the right shoulder of the former, 

 and threw it on the ground. The severed head he carried away in 

 his knapsack. The victorious Armenians put the heathen army to 

 the sword, and the number of the killed amounted to one thousand 

 and thirty-eight. The rest were made prisoners, and stripped of all 

 they were possessed of. The son of the pi-ince of the Mocks fell in 

 the battle by the hand of Demetr, and this melancholy event spread 

 universal sorrow among the Armenian troops. 



" The fall of Demetr was made a signal of cessation from slaughter, 

 and the trumpet of peace was sounded by order of the prince of the 

 Seunies. The two armies immediately desisted from the continuance 

 of carnage. The surviving heathen priests gladly availed themselves 

 of the occasion, by soliciting the Armenian princes to sanction the 

 interment of their dead. Their request was readily granted. The 

 killed on both sides were collected in beaps, and buried in pits dug 

 for the purpose. Monuments were raised on their graves, bearing 

 the following inscription, in Syrian, Hellenic, and Ismaelitish charac- 

 ters. 



u.fHi^b'b *na$bPiuur np i-'Ub-N ensd* uhtjsm? 

 'nasbPLi^.irb'ii ^uuiiMip iirsirb *fwa<ni?s'b 



np ^ae ii3ijp 'b Hi^iriru 

 t?b tv> 'bira aou 4iu.ap b-PtunKb t-N om* 

 t?K ^aeu <nast?Piuur apapa* ^an^ ^buirbba3 wis 



bh "Ulirb *PbUSlKlb: 



" THE FIRST BATTLE FOUGHT VERY FIERCELY, 

 THE CHIEF COMMANDER IN THE BATTLE WAS ARZAN THE HEAD PRJEST, 

 WHO LIES HERE INTERRED, 

 AND WITH HIM ONE THOUSAND AND THIRTY-EIGHT MEN. 

 WE WAGED THIS WAR FOR THE IDOL KEISANEY 

 AND ON BEHALF OF CHRIST." 



Here concludes the narrative of the religious Avar. Our historian, 

 it appears, was an eye-witness to the scene he describes. This vic- 

 tory was celebrated by the Armenians with the greatest pomp and 

 merriment. The heathen temples were razed to the ground, and 

 the images of Keisaney and Demetr were broken to pieces. They 

 were both made of brass.. The length of the former was fifteen feet, 

 and that of the latter twelve feet. The priests of the idols, with 

 tears in their eyes, intreated the victors to put themselves to death, 

 rather than destroy their mighty Keisaney. Six of the priests 

 were killed on the spot, for the resistance they offered to the Armeni- 

 ans. On the restoration of peace, the prince of the Seunies proceeded 



