[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Eastern Christian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy) › [Georgian](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy.ka) › სიბრძნე ბალავარისი # სიბრძნე ბალავარისი The Wisdom of Balahvar Christianised Georgian adaptation of the Arabic Bilawhar wa-Būḏāsaf: the Indian prince Iodasaph, shut away by his father King Abenes, learns of old age and death and is converted by the sage Balahvar; the earliest Christian form of the Buddha legend and source of the Greek Barlaam. - **Language:** oge - **Date:** 850–1000 CE - **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry) ## Based on - [Lalitavistara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lalitavistara) - [Buddhacarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.aitihasika.buddhacarita) - [كتاب بلوهر وبوذاسف](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.qissa.bilawhar) ## Parallel to - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata) ## Versions and retellings - [Ἱστορία ψυχωφελὴς ἐκ τῆς ἐνδοτέρας τῶν Αἰθιόπων χώρας … (Βαρλαὰμ καὶ Ἰωάσαφ)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.gr.byzantine.barlaam) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy.ka.balavariani](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy.ka.balavariani) · Pramāṇa