Examining and Explaining the Multiple Recordings of Some Verses in Rudaki's Collection of Poems Based on Nafisi Correction

The Persian poems by khorasani-style poets in different literary sources, including manuscripts, are required to be addressed with caution due to the variants associated with some of them. One of these poets is Rudki Samarqandi whose poems are collected by a number of editors. Yet, in some collections of his works (in particular, the 2nd edition by Saeed Nafisi) some verses have been included in variant forms- a practice rooted in inaccurate citation or negligence on the part of the editors. Now, because such poems are included in his collections as indepent and reliable poems, they need to be re-examined in a scholarly way. The present researchers have done their best (upon careful study of valid copies) to find the main cause/causes of existence of such variations; this has been followed by suggesting a number of ways to avoid any future inclusion in the next publications.