Jain Shwetambar Tirth Antriksha Parshwanath

SR No.: 005202
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Antriksha Parshwanath Sansthan Shirpur
Publisher: Antriksha Parshwanath Sansthan
Publication Year: 1972
Total Pages: 154
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Book_Gujarati
File Size: 17 MB

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entitled to any exclusive right of management is made, while the claims of the Swetambaris to exclusive privileges of worship are disallowed the parties are to adhere to the time-table of the 1905 and to obey the time regulations and procedure of worship in their own time as settled then. The collections of money and offerings are to be made by the two sects as hitherto from the time of the separation of their gadis and cash. The Swetambaris are to be entitled to worship the image with the ornaments, chaksu, tika and the like according to their forms of worship, but only in their own time, no injunction is to restrain the Digambaris from insisting upon their right to worship the image without ornaments, and in their own way and in their own time according to the time table. Each party is therefore directed strictly to adhere to the time-table and the time limit imposed therein.
Finally, an injunction is granted against the Defendants and all other Digmabaris restraining them from interfering with the Swetambaris in the plastering of the idol so as to show the configuration on it of a waistband and waist-tie and certain marks on the ears and patms, but the order directs that "these marks shall not be so bold and prominent so as to be offensive in any way, and they shall be shown with a light touch of plaster and as faintly as possible."
Both parties were dissatisfied, and the surviving plaintiff Swetambaris by notice of appeal and the defendant Digambaris by cross objections to the decree, set up again before the court of the Judicial Commissoner, Central provinces their respective cases as originally pleaded. Before that court, however, as stated in its judgment, the Swetambari appellants no longer contested the right of the Digambaris, as declared by the decree of the Trial Judge, to worship in their own way and in their own time, according to the time-table, to which must be added the statement of their Counsel before the Board that they no mark no claim to the collections of money and offerings made by worshippers during the periods of worship assigned tothe Digambaris. The cross-objections of tie Digambaris having
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