Borzuya (or Burzōē or Burzōy) was a Persian physician in the late Sassanid era, at the time of Khosrau I. He translated the Indian Panchatantra from Sanskrit into Pahlavi (Middle Persian). 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-Muqaffa under the title of Kalila and Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai and became the greatest prose of Classical Arabic. The book contains fables in which animals interact in complex ways to convey teachings to princes in policy.
In the mid-sixth century, the Persian physician Borzuya journeyed to India in search of medicine to revive the dead. Borzuya was the leading physician to Persian King Khosrau Anushirawan. He came from an elite family, had a scholarly education in medicine, and was respected as a scholar and a sage as well as a physician. Borzuya’s journey seeking medicine to revive the dead indicates that reviving the dead was a reasonable interest in professional medicine in the ancient world. The outcome of Borzuya’s journey was unexpected: he delivered to Anushirawan the still-famous book Kalilah wa Dimnah and turned to a life of piety and asceticism.
Reports that certain physicians could revive the dead circulated in the ancient world. Christians regard Jesus of Nazareth as a physician in the sense that healing the sick was a central aspect of what Christians believe that Jesus did. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead and could raise others from the dead. Jesus did not, however, achieve professional success among physicians of his time. Jesus never was appointed to a position of medical authority, acquired no wealth from practicing medicine, and was crucified as a criminal (Source: Purple Motes).
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