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on the mountain, which the unhappy condition of the country in those days had made a question of mere prudence. This is a matter no longer open to dispute as it is supported by incontrovertible evidence from records, submitted before now in the ordinary tribunals of the land. There is, moreover, a series of specific grants or sanads from the Mughal Emperors beginning with Akbar and ending with Alamgir or Aurangzeb, by which the Jain community is recognised and confirmed in the Inam ownership of the Hill. The first of these Imperial Sanads dates from 1592, full sixty years before the present Thakore's ancestor contracted with the Jain community to act as its watchman on the Hill. These Sanads have finally, been admitted, recognised and confirmed, without challenge or question from the Thakore, by the present Government through its appropriate tribunals. How, then, can there be any question of doubt about sovereignty at all ?
UNTENABLE CLAIM. The Jains are a peacful community, whose religion forbids them to engage in violence; and the pilgrims are just the people who would least think of violence even if their religion did not definitely forbade it. They, there fore, engaged, on specific agreement, some one to take on himself the task of policing the Hill and its approaches, in consideration of definite advantages in
