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SHRI ANTARIKSHA PARSVANATH CASE.
PRIVY COUNCIL JUDGMENT.
Privy Council Appeal No. 69 of 1927. Honasa Ramasa Lad Dhakad and others ...
Appellants.
Kalyanchand Lalchand Patni Gujrathi and others ... ...
... Respondents.
From THE COURT OF THE JUDICIAL COMMISSIONER
OF THE CENTRAL PROVINCES.
JUDGMENT 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. ) ^ T Shirpur, in the District of Akola, there has stood for five n 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 jewellery and ornaments. This deep-seated doctrinal or liturgical difference between these influential sections of the Jain community lies at the root of the
dispute which has ripened into this portentous litigation. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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