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Burzoe or Bozorgmehr (Burzoe/Borzuyeh/Borzuy: from Middle Persian / Pahlavi: "of honour" or "high"; Bozorgmehr: from Middle Persian (Vozurgmihr) and Modern Persian(بزرگمهر): "Great Sun" or "Great Mithra") was a famous Iranian statesman and physician of the Sassanid era of the Persian Empire in the sixth century. He was the chancellor (vizier) of Khosrau I . Due to his proverbial literary, political and scientific work he was deeply respected by Eastern peoples as a man of wisdom and honour even after the Arab invasion of Iran in the seventh century. On this basis he is a positive figure in modern Eastern literature as well.
He translated the Indian Panchatantra from Sanskrit into the Middle Persian language of Pahlavi. But 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-Mafuqqa under the title of Kalila and Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai and became the Arabs' greatest prose classics. The book contains fables in which animals interact in complex ways to convey teachings to princes in policy.
Bozorgmehr was a chess master and is said to have created the game "Backgammon" in its ancient version.
The "Pandnamak-i Vozurg-Mihr-i Bukhtakan" (Modern Persian: Pandnameh e Bozorgmehr e Bakhtegan), a book of advice, which is another book attributed to Bozorgmehr, was preserved in the royal treasury (ganj-e shahigan) of Iran in the Sassanid Empire and has been translated into modern languages.
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