اختلافِ نسخ اسباب ووجوہات اور تصحیح

  • Hussain Nahir Khan

Abstract

Manuscripts usually belong to ancient times. The text of manuscripts are imitated by different editors in different ages. During the process of this imitation there occures the difference in the original text. There may be different forms and reasons of the difference of text. It is the duty of the editors to reveal form of difference/change in the text. He should purify the text from them and restore the original text. A change / difference comes there becomes a difference / change in the textual form of several published editions of a book. The responsibility of the editor is to get rid of these changes and write the original text according to the will of the writer.