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શ્રી અંતરિક્ષ
From:- . The Court of the Judicial Commissioner of the
Central Provinces. Judgement of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, delivered
the 9th July, 1929. Present at the Hearing. Lord Blanesburgh. Lord Tomlin. Sir Lancelot Sanderson. ( Delivered by Lord Blanesburgh )
At Shirpur, in the District of Akola, there has stood for five hundred years and it may be for much longer, the Jain Temple of Antariksha Parasnath. The Jains are roughly ranged into two main divisions the Digambaris, represented in this suit by the appellants, and the Swetambaris, repre. sented by the respondents. One of the essential religious differences between the two is that Digambari idols are worshipped in a state of complete nudity, while the idols of the Swetambaris are revered draped and decorated with jewellery and ornaments. This deep-seated doctrinal or liturgical difference between these influential .sections of the Jain community lies at the root of the dispute which has ripened into this portentious litigation,
