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Vazha-Pshavelaze

(scroll down for English translation)

Mtebi dardoben shens ts’asvlas

Mgosani natel pikrebad

Amboben vazhas sik’vdili

Sad tkmula rogor ikneba

Ra mok’lavs pikrsa natelsa

Azrsa mzesavit brts’qinvalis

Tavs rom mkhsnel parad elveba

K’avk’asionis mqinvarebs

Vin shedzlos navlad aktsios

Ts’igni simgherit nats’eri

Mze rom k’ashk’ashit danatis

Kartuli sibrdznis nateli

Vin gadatelos shelakhos

Sanatas ts’minda mandili

An sasik’vdilod dasakhvros

Aludas gulis ts’adili

Chargals dauch’k’nos mshveneba

Darials shekhsnas k’arebi

K’viria lachrad asakhos

Lelas dastkharos tvalebi

Vidre tsa mits’as dahqurebs

Ra dzala shedzlebs rakheli

Chvens guls most’atsos mohglijos

Vazha-pshavelas sakheli

Mtebi tav chachknianebi

P’iris mzis eshkhit kharoben

Nairnairi prinvelni

Mzis amosvlasa galoben

Shens gzas gastskeren mgosano

Nat’roben gnakhon tvalita

Sheni panduris prangulit

Sheni perit da dzalita

Ganakhlebuli samshoblo

Mudam siamit gigonebs

Damt’k’bari gulit dakharis

Bukhris ts’in nat’ser st’rikonebs

Mtats’mindav gulshi ikhut’ebs

Niavi charglis mdelosi

Sakveqnod sakhel gantkmulo

Mshvenebav sakartvelosi

Translation:

Vazha-Pshavela¹

Poet, The mountains grieve

Your transformation into light thoughts²

They say of the death of Vazha:

Where is this said, and how can this be?

What kills light thoughts

And ideas as brilliant as the sun?

They embrace the Caucasus glaciers

Like a savior’s shield

Who can possibly quell

A book written like a song,

The light of Georgian wisdom,

On which the sun shines bright.

Who can trample or abase

Sanata’s³ holy head-scarf

Who can spear to death

Aluda’s4️⃣ heart’s wish

Chargali’s5️⃣ devitalized beauty

Darial’s open doors6️⃣

Who can represent Kviria as a coward

Who can gouge out Lela’s eyes7️⃣

Until the sky looks down on the ground

No strength or hand can grab or steal

Vazha-Pshavela’s name

From our hearts

The helmeted mountains

Are happy to see the sun

Different birds

Are chanting for the sun rise

They are looking at roads you've passed, Poet

They wish to see you with their eyes

And your panduri’s French

And your colors and strengths8️⃣

The renewed homeland

Always remembers you with pleasure

He looks down with a sweetened heart

On the lines written in front of the hearth

Mtats’minda9 embraces in its heart

The breeze blown from Chargali’s fields

The celebrated and famous

Beauty of Georgia.

¹Luka Razikashvili (1861-1916) was one of Georgia’s most famous poets and writers. He wrote under the pen name Vazha-Pshavela, which literally means the "son from Pshavi." He was born and raised in the village of Chargali where a museum for him, opened in 1961, exists today.

²Your passing and going to Heaven.

³A character in Vazha-Pshavela's epic poem Bakhtrioni (1892).

4️⃣The hero from Vazha Pshavela's 1888 epic poem Aluda Ketelauri. Aluda was a Khevsur famous for his bravery and his warrior skills, but was expelled from his village after confessing his admiration for their historical enemy.

5️⃣The village in the Pshavi highland in northeastern Georgia where Vazha-Pshavela was born.

6️⃣Darial Pass in Mokhevi (1,450 meters) is one of the most important passes in the Caucaus. It is the historical pass in the central Caucasus that connects Vladikavkaz in Russia to Tbilisi, Georgia's capital.

7️⃣Kviria and Lela are also characters from Vazha-Pshavela's Bakhtrioni.

8️⃣The meaning behind these lines is that Vazha-Pshavela's writing was so full of the intense colors of nature, people desired to see his creations again, filled with colors, strength and musicality.

9️⃣Refers to the Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures where Vazha-Pshavela is buried, located in the churchyard of Saint David's Church in Tbilisi on the slope of Mount Mtatsminda.