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Candy with the secommendations of Mr. Peile was forwarded to the Government of Bombay. who issued their orders thercon embodied in their resolution dated the 16th day of March 1877, and bearing No. 1641 Political Department. These orders set out in a very concise foi m the situation between the Durbar and the Jain community, as Government conceived it to be They refer to the state of things "which history shows to have existed for centuries even before the Thakore had his capital at Palitana, namely, that the Shravaks or the followers of the Jain religion had their temples and one of their most sacred places of pilgrimage on the Shatruājaya Hill. That spot was one particularlyk venerated by them.” Bearing in mind, on the other hand, that the Hill was situated within the Durbar's principality, Government expressed the victime that as regards the Hill the Durbar was the authoris ed to interfere in the same manner ascha pruhdi do with reference to other portions of hatsA. tory. They further held that the claims thep put forward by the ruler of Palitana Were Hot such as any of his predecessors had ever mate; and that their exercise would tend to constant quarrels and accusations and breaches of the peace. Government accordingly passed the following definite orders :.. (1) Within the Gadh the control of the Thakore shall be recognised only for the purposes
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