Atmanand Prakash Pustak 048 Ank 03

SR No.: 531563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar
Publisher: Jain Atmanand Sabha Bhavnagar
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 26
Language: Gujarati, Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Atmanand Prakash, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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set a seal upon the recognised privileges of 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 wers 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 Swetembaris to exclusive privileges of worship are disallowed. The parties are to adh. ere to the time-table of 1903 and to obey the time regulations and procedure of worsbip in their own time 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 gudis 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 Timit imposed therein.
Finally, an injunction is granted against the Defendants and all other Digambasris restraining them from interfering with the Swetambaris in the plastering of the idol so as to show the configuration on it of a waistband and waist-tie and certain marks on the ears and palms, but the order directs that "these marks shall not be so bold and prominent so as to be offensive in any way, and they shall be shown with a light touch of plaster and as faintly as possible”.
Both parties were dissatisfied, and the surviving plaintiff Swetam. baris by notice of appeal and the defendant Digambaris by cross-obje. ctions to the decrea, set up again before the court of the Judicial Co. mmissioner, Central proviuoes, their respective cases as originally pleaded. Before that court, however, as stated in its judgment, the Swetambari appellants no longer contested the right of the Digambaris, as declared hy the decree of the Trial judge, to worship in their own