A comparative study of proper nouns regarding “Booman-o-Zaghan” in Panchatantra, Kalileh va Dmneh, Bidpai Tales, Anvar Soheili and Ayyar Danesh

One of the educational texts that has attracted scholars and researchers’ attention since its translation to Persian is Kalileh va Dmeneh. Over time, the translations and interpretations in different languages on these books have been influenced by the translators’ personal perspectives. Thus, there are differences in terms of both content and structure. One of these differences is proper nouns used in the stories of this book. In the present study, I have discussed proper nouns regarding “Booman-o-Zaghan” in Panchatantra, Kalileh va Dmneh, Bidpai Tales, Anvar Soheili and Ayyar Danesh. Among all, Panchatantra is considered as the main Indian source and proper nouns used in the other books are compared with it. The findings showed seventeen proper nouns used in these books among which the most are used in Panchatantra and the most differences are related to Anvar Soheili and Ayyar Danesh.