He translated the Indian Panchatantra from Sanskrit into the Middle Persian language of Pahlavi. But both his translation and the original Sanskrit version he worked from are lost. Before their loss, however, his Pahlavi version was translated into Arabic by Ibn al-Mafuqqa under the title of Kalila and Dimna or The Fables of Bidpai and became the Arabs' greatest prose classics. The book contains fables in which animals interact in complex ways to convey teachings to princes in policy.

Bozorgmehr was a chess master and is said to have created the game "Backgammon" in its ancient version.

The "Pandnamak-i Vozurg-Mihr-i Bukhtakan" (Modern Persian: Pandnameh e Bozorgmehr e Bakhtegan), a book of advice, which is another book attributed to Bozorgmehr, was preserved in the royal treasury (ganj-e shahigan) of Iran in the Sassanid Empire and has been translated into modern languages.

See also

• Academy of Gundishapur
• Sassanid Empire