The Correction of some Couplets of Suzani Samarghndi

Abstract

The outstanding importance of Soozani Samarghandi’s Divan (collection of works), the poet of sixth century, is due to the use of numerous words related to overseas as well as less frequently used words in two Arabic and Persian languages. The lexical aspect of Divan originates from the assiduity of lexicographer to Soozani’s poetry to elaborate the meaning of words. Due to the unfamiliarity of some related words, distortion and falsified correction made and the related results got into the typographic text of Soozani’Divan published by Nasseraldin shah-e-Hosseyni. This research aims to correct 12 couplets out of Soozani’s Divan volume. It is conducted based on the newly published manuscript. To this end, the picture of manuscript provided. The required data collected by referring to presented manuscript and some other Persian dictionaries .Since manuscript of Soozani’s Divan are mostly succedanous and related to Safavi dynasty and the next era, it has undergone distortion and correction. In the present study, 12 couplets corrected by referring to library references. To do this, the collected couplets compared and various dictionaries were used to describe and analyze the couplets.

Keywords

• Sixth Century Poem
• Soozani Samarghandi
• Criticizing Divan
• Correction of Couplets