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Aશ્રી અંતરિક્ષ પાર્શ્વનાથ તીર્થ
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 recognized 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. These parties are to adhere to the timetable of 1905 and to obey the time regulation and procedure of worship in their own tie 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 gates 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 timetable. Each party is therefore directed strictly to adhere to the timetable and the time limit imposed therein.
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