# Bud the periodeutes

- id: bud-the-periodeutes
- dates: fl. c. 570
- roles: translator

An itinerant supervising cleric of the Church of the East, a rank above priest and below bishop, who made the Old Syriac Kalilag and Damnag from Burzoy's Persian. His translation is the oldest surviving witness to the lost Pahlavi book.

## Crossings

- c. 570: Panchatantra into Syriac (translator) [attested]

## Sources

- de Blois, François (1990). Burzoy's Voyage to India and the Origin of the Book of Kalilah wa Dimnah.