578 Remarks on a Boodhist Coin. [No. 152. 



It is very probable that Boodhic reliques and symbols would be 

 found numerous in Abyssinia, some there undoubtedly are. 



Dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 



T. Latter. 

 P. S. — With reference to the obverse of the coin, (fig. 2,) any one in 

 any way acquainted with the Boodhist religious Cosmology, will be 

 almost sure to concur in the explanation I have given of it. With refer- 

 ence to that part of it, figured separately (fig. 8,) I have already declared 

 that to the initiated it probably will call to mind some masonic emblem, 

 its position on the coin in reference to the other symbols, would lead 

 one to suppose that it was meant to symbolise the handiwork of the 

 Great Architect and Geometrician of the Universe. 



View of the principal Political Events that occurred in the Carnatic, 

 from the dissolution if the Ancient Hindoo Government in 1564 till 

 the Mogul Government was established in 1687, on the Conquest of 

 the Capitals of Beejapoor and Golconda ; compiled from various 

 Authentic Memoirs and Original MSS., collected chiefly within 

 the last ten years, and referred to in the Notes at the bottom of each 

 page. By Colonel. Mackenzie. 



( Concluded from p. 421 . ) 



IV. 



Continuation of the State of the Carnatic Balla- Ghaut, carried down 

 to the period of the death of Chick- Deo Vadyar, of Mysore, in 1704, 

 with a Map, explanatory of the extent and situation of the Mysore 

 Territories at that period* 



1. At the period of Chick Deo's death, the political state of the Car- 

 natic began to assume a new aspect, that becomes 

 Final reduction and now more interesting to an European reader, as 



conquest ot Beejapoor ° r > 



and Golconda, by Au- an accurate knowledge of its situation at this 

 rungzebe in 16S7. 



time is essential for a clearer understanding of 

 these claims and pretensions, that not only then occupied the imme- 

 diate parties, but ultimately engaged the European settlements in 



* This part was hastily noted for the use of Colonel Wilks's designed work on the 

 particular History of Mysore in 1808. 



