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# ܟܠܝܠܓ ܘܕܡܢܓ

Kalīlag and Damnag (Old Syriac)

Translation of the lost Middle Persian Kalīlag ud Damanag made by the periodeutes Bōd about 570; the oldest surviving version of the Pañcatantra outside India, in ten chapters including the lion and the bull, the ring-dove, the owls and the crows and the monkey and the tortoise.

- **Language:** Syriac
- **Date:** 550–580 CE
- **Author:** [ܒܘܕ ܦܪܝܘܕܘܛܐ](https://indike.org/pramana/person/bud-periodeutes)
- **Text:** not yet digitised (catalogue entry)

## Translations (1)

- [Kalilag und Damnag. Alte syrische Übersetzung des indischen Fürstenspiegels](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy.syr.kalilag-wa-damnag~de-bickell) — German, not yet digitised

## Based on

- [Pañcatantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.pancatantra)

## Translates

- [Kalīlag ud Dimnag](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.ir.pal.lost.kalilag)

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy.syr.kalilag-wa-damnag](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.sy.syr.kalilag-wa-damnag) · Pramāṇa
