Borzūya
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Borzuya (or Burzōē or Burzōy or Borzouyeh, ) was a Persian physician in the late Sasanian era, at the time of Khosrow I. He translated the Indian Panchatantra from Sanskrit into Pahlavi (Middle Persian). Both his translation and the original Sanskrit version he worked from are lost. Before their loss, however, his Pahlavi version was translated into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa under the title of Kalīla wa-Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai.
Key facts
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- Artwork of Borzūya
- Medical person.birth_date
- 5th century – 6th century
- Medical person.birth_place
- Abarshahr or Merv
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- 6th century
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- Sassanid Iran
- Medical person.education
- Academy of Gondishapur (possibly)
- Medical person.profession
- Physician
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- Translating many books into Pahlavi
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Voyage to India
- See also
- References
Borzuya (or Burzōē or Burzōy or Borzouyeh, ) was a Persian physician in the late Sasanian era, at the time of Khosrow I. He translated the Indian Panchatantra from Sanskrit into Pahlavi (Middle Persian). Both his translation and the original Sanskrit version he worked from are lost. Before their loss, however, his Pahlavi version was translated into Arabic by Ibn al-Muqaffa under the title of Kalīla wa-Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai.
The introduction to Kalīla wa-Dimna presents an autobiography by Borzūya. Beside his ideas, cognitions and inner development leading to a practice of medicine based on philanthropic motivations, Borzuya's search for truth, his skepticism towards established religious thought and his later asceticism are some features lucidly depicted in the text.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borzūya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.