 Characterized as a pious monarch and an exceptional warrior, he is reported to have rebelled against the Iranian hegemony and have withheld paying tribute to the shah.He is also credited with the construction of Bolnisi.P’arsman is identified by some scholars with the Pharasmanes of the Syriac "Vita Petri Iberi" who was a brother of Osdukhtia, the paternal grandmother of Peter the Iberian, a well-known Georgian theologian and one of the leaders of anti-Chalcedonian movement in the Eastern Roman Empire.