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.. . .. sl viakat vir alle del Privy Council Appeal No 69 of 1927 Honasa Ramasa Lad Dhakad and Others....
Appellants
Vs Kalyanchand Lalchand Patni Gujrathi and
Others.... Respondents. 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, represented 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
