‘Ala ud-Din Awadhi and His Refrain

‘Ala ud-Din Awadhi is one of the Iranian poets of the tenth century AH in the subcontinent. His most famous work is a refrain composed in imitation of Fakhr alDin Iraqi. This refrain is known in the subcontinent and become so popular that it has found its way into the home school and is in the category of educational texts. Therefore, several manuscripts of it are available and have been published lithographically in recent centuries. A texts of this significance in the studies of the subcontinent has not yet been scientifically and methodically corrected, and no explicit text is available. In the present article, the authors have tried to take a step in this direction.