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for worship to each sect. The result, as held by both Courts, was that for the further period between the ejectment of the Polkars and the quarrel over the plastering of the idol in 1908, the two sects managed the temple through their committee, and worship was carried on by each sect in accordance with its own ceremonies and observances as prescribed by the time-table propounded in 1905. And in the view of the learned Trial Judge, those arrangements set at rest all disputes as to worship and as to the management of the Samsthan so far as the peculiarities of their worship and devotion went and they practically set a seal upon the recognised privileges af each party. giving effect, therefore, to a plea of estoppel set up by the defendants, he held that the plaintiff Swetambaris could no longer deny the right of the Digambaris to the joint management of the temple and to the worship of the idol in their own way as both of these matters were in the year 1905.
The learned judge's decree is dated the 27th March, 1918. Naturally no declaration that the Swetambaris are entitled to any exclusive right of management is made, while the claims of the Swetambaris to exclusive privileges of worship are disallowed. Thes parties are to adhere to the time
