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An Arabic and a Persian metrical version of Burzoe's autobiography from “Kalila and Dimna”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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In my Foreword to the fifth volume of The Ocean of Story (Mr. Penzer's reprint of Tawney's translation), I had occasion to discuss the well-known Burzoë Legend, which forms part of the preliminary matter in Ibn Muqaffa's Kalila wa Dimna. This legend relates how Burzoë, a physician at the court of Anushirwan the Just, was sent to India to discover a wonderful book of wisdom, how after infinite pains he found it, and having translated it, brought back a Pahlavi version to the Persian monarch. The story is too well known to need repetition, nor am I here concerned with the question of its origin.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , February 1927 , pp. 441 - 472
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1927
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page 441 note 1 The Ocean of Story, being C. H. Tawney's translation of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sāgara. Edited … by N. M. Penzer. In 10 vols…. Vol. v with a Foreword by E. Denison Ross.
page 441 note 2 B.M. Add. 7766. Dated A.H. 863 (A.D. 1459).
page 441 note 3 British Museum Or. 3626, and in the library of the Catholic Fathers in Beyrout.
page 442 note 1 Rieu, , Supplement Catalogue of Arabic MSS. in the British Museum, p. 735 et seq.Google Scholar
page 454 note 1 Rieu, , Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. ii, pp. 582 et seq.Google Scholar
page 455 note 1 A similar answer is recorded in the preface of Nasr Ullah's Persian version, where it is put into the mouth of a Brahman in India. See Notices et Extraits, vol. x, p. 107.Google Scholar