Sources present Bozorgmehr as a member of the noble House of Karen (a Parthian/Arsacid noble lineage) and style him with the patronymic -i Bōkhtagān ('son of Bokhtagan') in Middle Persian. The name has theophoric readings in some epigraphic material (e.g., Dadburzmihr, 'given by the high Mihr'), which scholars cite as evidence of onomastic links to Mihr/Mithra devotion in his clan; however, sources treat him as a historical courtier and do not offer a mythic cosmogonic origin.
The provided sources do not supply a physical or supernatural portrait of Bozorgmehr. He is attested in textual sources (Aydāgār ī Wuzurgmihr and later Persian and Arabic works) and on seals where administrative and military titulature appears; one seal-style attestation records him styling himself with Parthian/aspbed terminology (linked to the office of spahbed). Beyond such documentary styling, no consistent iconographic description or supernatural appearance is given in the cited materials.
Cited sources attribute to Bozorgmehr the offices and functions of a high Sasanian dignitary: wuzurg framadār (grand minister) under Kavad I and Khosrow I; spahbed (military commander) of the kust of Khwarasan under Khosrow I and continued service under Hormizd IV in some accounts. He is credited with political counsel (for example, persuading Kavad to abolish certain taxes on fruit and grain in one report) and with authoring several Middle Persian treatises, most notably the Wizārišn ī čatrang ('Treatise on Chess' / Chatrang Nama) and other works cited in medieval sources and tradition. Later literary traditions preserve divergent narrative episodes about his relations with kings (pardon, execution), but these are presented as literary variations rather than uniform historical fact.
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- [2]Wikidata entry for Bozorgmehr. Wikidata: Q3780281 (identifier and linked attestations)other
- [3]Aydāgār ī Wuzurgmihr and later Persian/Arabic references. Summary noting early reference in the Aydāgār ī Wuzurgmihr and later mentions in the Shahnameh, al-Tha'alibi, and al-Masudiliterary