Mahatma Letter No. 96

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Written by:	Koot Hoomi
Received by:	A. P. Sinnett
Sent via:	unknown
Dates
Written on:	unknown
Received on:	November 1882
Other dates:	unknown
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Sent from:	unknown
Received at:	Allahabad, India
Via:	unknown

This is Letter No. 96 in The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 4th chronological edition'. It corresponds to Letter No. 92 in Barker numbering. See below for Context and background.

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Envelope

KH's three words

NOTES:

Page 1 transcription, image, and notes

23-11-82.

P.S.— It may so happen that for purposes of our own, mediums and their spooks will be left undisturbed and free not only to personate the "Brothers" but even to forge our handwriting. Bear this in mind and be prepared for it in London. Unless the message or communication or whatever it may be is preceded by the triple words: "Kiu-t-an, Na-lan-da, Dha-ra-ni." Know it is not me, nor from me.

K.H.

NOTES:

• Kiu-t-an. Kiu-t'an is the Chinese transcription of the Sanskrit name Gautama.
• Na-lan-da. Nālandā was one of the Buddha's epithets meaning literally "insatiable in giving".
• Dha-ra-ni. Dhāraṇī is a Sanskrit word with similar meaning to "mantra".

Physical description of letter

The original is in the British Library, Folio 3. According to George Linton and Virginia Hanson, the letter was written:

On a single folded sheet of 5" x 7" [12.7 x 17.8 cm] canary yellow notepaper in KH script, in bright red ink.