چكامه آتشين خواجه رشيد

The Eloquent Ode by Khawaja Rashid

The first ode in the Bayaz Anthology with the identical rhyme of Atash (fire) - a word repeated after the rhyming word in every line called radif - is attributed to Rashid Watwat. Rejecting the attribution, the paper gives a short history of similar poems, marks the incorrect readings and depicts the traces of alterations in the manuscript. Since the unusual corruption and misreading of the manuscript increases difficulties in the process of textual editing of the unpublished poems in the Bayaz Anthology, the edited text of the Ode Atash is provided subsequently.