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APPENDIX. 
, No. III. 
Translation of a Letter from Soopoon Choomboo , Mirkin C/iassa Lama , Minister 
to the late Teslioo Lama, to Warren Hastings, Esq. Governor General, &c. 
Received the 1 2 th February , 1 7 8 2. 
T o the source of magnanimity; equal in glory to the sun ; first of the leaders 
of Europe ; the selected of the mighty and the noble; the exalted in dignity ; 
the Governor Immaud u’ Dowlah. May his fortitude and his existence be 
perpetuated by the beneficence of Almighty God I 
Having kissed the earth with the respect of the lowly, the meanest of your 
devoted (servants), the humblest of your faithful friends, Soopoon Choomboo, 
represents unto you, that the lord of his disciples, the illuminator of the world, 
Maha Gooroo, in the year of the Hejera 1193 % sat in the plenitude of good 
fortune, on the musnud of authority: and in those days 1 sent to you an 
humble writing, by the Gosein, Poorungheer, which you received, and in 
answer thereto you sent a letter, and choice gifts; and those, and the string 
of coral, which, in the greatness of your bounty, you conferred upon me, 
arrived safe, and in happy hour, on the l 6th day of the month Rubbee ul 
Auwul, in the year of the Hejera 1 19 3 , at the place which they call Coomboo, 
in the land of Tibburut, in the region of China ; and I was exalted thereby. 
And the Khullefah Bugwan, that is to say, Maha Gooroo, on the 17 th 
day of the month Rubbee u’ saunee, in the year of the Hejera 1 19 3 b , di¬ 
rected the reins of his intention from Teshoo Loomboo towards the land of 
China. And the various inhabitants of the environs, and the places round 
about, of Lhobah, and of Khumbauk, those who sojourn in tents, and those 
who live in cities, came, and were received according to their degrees, and 
their stations. And the chief princes of the land, and the pillars of the state, 
3 A. D. 1779. b Corresponding to the 17th June, 1779. 
