The Correction and explanation of a verse from Rudaki Samarkandi's Divan

 Rudaki Samarkandi is one of the pioneering and prominent poets of Khorasan literary field (sabk-i Khorāsānī). Because of its simplicity and fluency, poems of Rudaki have always been of interest to poets and scholars, both contemporary to his age and periods later. Owing to the inclusion of old Dari words, and because of his poetic style and ideas, Rudaki's poems have been popular among the scholars of Iran, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. There were numerous verses attributed to Rudaki, but only a few verses survived. From the numerous poems attributed to Rudaki, scholars, such as Braginsky, Nafisi, Mirzayev, etc., engaged in correcting his poems, have found only a very small number of them, most of which are attributed to two or more other poets as well. Therefore, retrieving or correcting Rudaki's poems are of prime importance to researchers working on Rudaki and those who are interested in his poems. In the present study, the authors have attempted to address the first stanza of the following poem which has some implications to Kalīla wa-Dimna and give some suggestions for the second stanza: As the idiot camel step forward to the niche Is unaware of the cunning fox, chough and wolf