as "C" and which has been printed many times in Bombay. The only complete edition that appeared in Europe, that of G. Gorresio contains the Bengal recension. The text of the North-Western Indian (Western Indian, Kashmiri) recension is now being printed at Lahore . That there are great differences between the recensions proves only the presumption of oral transmission of the text. It is understandable that the order of the verses in the memory of rhapsodes gets shifted, that the text had to undergo often significant changes and that the reciters of the various regions made their own additions and elaborations.