 He is said to have married Ghadana, daughter of King Vologases III of Parthia who ruled in Armenia.According to the medieval "Life of Kings", the traditional friendship of the two dyarchs soured at the instigation of the Iranian wife of Mihrdat.Toumanoff regards this information a back-projection of the historically recorded enmity of Pharasmanes I of Iberia and his brother Mithridates of Armenia.