Talib’s Divanneeds correction: Suggestions for the editing collected poems of Taleb Amoli

Talib Amoli is one of the greatest poets of Hindi style, and his Divan deserves research and inspection. His Complete Divan, corrected by Mohammad Taheri, was published in 1361 and 1391. For the ease of analysis, in the present article, the errors in the correction of Talib Amoli’s Divan were classified into seven parts: (1) misreading and misrepresentation (14 lines); (2) spacing among words (2 lines); (3) missing letter(s) (4 lines); (4) letter additions (1 line); (5) disordering in lexis (1 line); (6) overlooking the co-occurrence principle in correction (1line); and (7) misspelling and typographical errors (53 lines). The corrections of the verses were informed by an investigation of the rhythms, rhymes, meanings, cues and clues from the poet himself or from Hindi style and the tradition in Persian literature, which were compared with and validated by the existent editions. The majority of the corrections include the correction of misreadings and misrepresentations, missed lexis, wrong additions and repetitions, disordering of verses, and misspellings. This analysis revealed the necessity for re-correction of Talib Amoli’s Divan.