# Burzoy

- id: burzoy
- also known as: Burzoe, Borzuya
- dates: fl. mid-6th century, court of Khosrow I
- roles: translator

Physician to Khosrow I Anushirvan. The story the book tells about him says he went to India for a herb that raises the dead and came back having understood that the herb was a book. His Middle Persian Kalila compilation is lost; everything west of India descends from it.

## Crossings

- c. 550–570: Panchatantra into Middle Persian (translator) [attested]

## Sources

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