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# كتاب بلوهر وبوذاسف

The Book of Bilawhar and Būdhāsf

Arabic story of the Indian prince Būdhāsf (from bodhisattva) whom the ascetic Bilawhar converts with parables, derived from Manichaean and Buddhist accounts of the Buddha's life; extant in an Ismāʿīlī recension (ed. Gimaret 1971) and the source of the Georgian Balavariani and of Barlaam and Josaphat.

- **Language:** Arabic
- **Date:** 750–900 CE
- **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

## Recensions and editions (1)

- [حديث بلوهر ويوذاسف (في كمال الدين)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.qissa.bilawhar*ibn-babawayh) — Ibn Bābawayh al-Ṣadūq, Arabic, not yet digitised

## Based on

- [Lalitavistara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara)

## Parallel to

- [Buddhacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.aitihasika.buddhacarita)
- [כתאב אלהדאיה אלי פראיץ̇ אלקלוב](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.he.medieval.hovot-halevavot)

## Versions and retellings

- [בן המלך והנזיר](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.he.medieval.lineages.ben-ha-melekh-ve-ha-nazir)
- [სიბრძნე ბალავარისი](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy.ka.balavariani)

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