Sharh-i akhbar u abyat u amthal-i ?Arabi-yi Kalila wa Dimna

Throughout history, Indian culture has had the interest of the Persians. At the time of the Sasanids (3rd-7th cent. CE) for instance, Sanskrit works on astronomy were translated into Pehlavi. Centuries later, in the early ?Abbasid period, a number of astronomers with a Persian background used information from these very same sources in writing their own books in Arabic. Besides scientific works, s...