Borzuyeh Tabib and Jainism

Subject Areas : شعر

mir jalaledin kazazi ¹ (عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اراک)

Received: 2012-09-28 Accepted : 2012-09-28 Published : 2009-08-01

Keywords: برزویۀ طبیب, کلیله و دمنه, آیینه جین, مهاویرا, تمثیل «مردی در چاه», Borzuyeh Tabib, Kalile and Dernneh, Jain religion, Mahavyra, "A man in the well" allegory,

Abstract :

Borzuyeh Tabib (Borzuyeh the Physician) - Iranian physician, intelligent and religious scholar has written an allegory as the one he wrote in the foreword of Kalile and Demneh which has a close and wonderful similarities with "A man in the well" story in Jainism. Jain religion is one of the religions of ancient India which Borzuyeh delivered Kalileh and Demneh to Iran with difficulties. The present article studies and compares the "A man in the well" story and the Iranian story "Kalile and Dernneh."