Burzuya (English spelling)

Japanese: Burzūya(英語表記)Burzuya
Burzuya (English spelling)

…the oldest work of Arabic prose literature. The physician Burzūya, who was sent to India by the Sassanid Persian emperor Khosrow I (reigned 531-579), brought back a Sanskrit collection of fables, the Panchatantra, along with many medical books. This was eventually translated into Middle Persian (Pahlavi) and in the 8th century, the Iranian Ibn al-Mukaffar retranslated it into Arabic as the Kalīla and Dimna.

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Japanese:

…アラビア散文文学の最古の作品。ササン朝ペルシアのホスロー1世(在位531‐579)によってインドに派遣された医師ブルズーヤBurzūyaは,多数の医学書とともにサンスクリット語の寓話集《パンチャタントラ》を持ちかえった。これはやがて中世ペルシア(パフラビー)語に訳されたが,8世紀にイラン系のイブン・アルムカッファーがこれをさらにアラビア語に重訳したのが《カリーラとディムナ》である。…

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