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શ્રી અંતરિક્ષ idol was absolute and uncontrolled; that no worship of the diety except in its self-existent condition and covered as required by the religious principles of the Swetambaris should take place, and injunctions were sought to make these declarations effective at the instance of the Swetambari.
The answering case of the Digambaris may not inadequately be described as a complete repudiation of the claims of the Swetambaris, with the counterassertion, by themselves, of rights over the temple and the idol as extensive and as absolute as those put forward by the Swetambaris. Their case is to be found in the written statement of defendant No. 8, which was adopted as their own by the other defendants.
In the course of that statement the charges of the plaintiffs with reference to the alleged mutiliation of the idol by defendants are repudiated, and the views of the Digambaris with reference to the original from of the idol are put forward. With reference to these charges it may at once be stated that the plaintiffs’-allegations as to the defendants' responsibility were not established at the trial, aud their claim for damages, which was resisted by the defendants on technical as well on substantial grou. nds, has failed and is no longer persisted in.
