de-blois

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Do Tier 1–2 scholarly sources (Encyclopaedia Iranica; de Blois 1990) confirm the Borzuya → Kalila wa-Dimna transmission chain, its dates, and the immortality-herb legend?

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-26 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, kalila-wa-dimna, panchatantra, ibn-al-muqaffa
Kalila wa-Dimna descends from Borzuya's lost mid-6th-century (c. 550–570 CE) Pahlavi Panchatantra, which Ibn al-Muqaffa rendered into Arabic in the 8th century

claim budding Tier 4 2026-07-09 · translation-history, sasanian-persia, transmission-of-texts, fables, kalila-wa-dimna