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Abstract
This article compares the selected couplets of the 1923 published work of mathnavi Asrar-e khudi by Allama Iqbal with its two bayaazs to mention the modifications of its widely published text by the Iqbal Academy, Lahore. The article writer mentions such couplets varying from the bayaaz. The 1923 text of the mathnavi was its third edition. Its first edition was published in 1915 and the second in 1918. Its bayaazs are of two types. The first one provides many corrections made by the poet Allama Iqbal as it was criticized and Allama Iqbal had to make some changes in it. The headings, it contained, are varying to a larger extent. The contents of the bayaaz shows that the mathnavi did not reach then to its final version. The other bayaaz has the same condition. This bayaaz is devoid of some of the couplets which are included in its final version published later on.Read More →