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Trial Judge, not dissented from an appeal, that but for the aid of the Digambaris then rendered, and but for the monetary assistance then provided by them, the temple and all control over it would have been lost to both sects.
This made all the more significant the proceedings at a general meeting of the jains in 1905, at which the Joint Committee still being in management, there was framed a scheme whereby the worship of the idol was to be performed by both sects in turns according to a regular time-table, which allocated precisely the same length of time for worship to each sect, The result, as held by both Courts, was that for the further period between the ejectment of the Polkars and the quarrel over the plastering of the idol in 1908, the two sects managed the temple through their committee, and worship was carried on by each sect in accordance with its own ceremonies and observances as prescribed by the time-table propounded in 1905. And in the view of the learned Trial Judge, those arrangements set at rest all disputes as to worship and as to the management of the Samsthan so far as the peculiarities of their worship and devotion went and they practically set a seal upon the recognised privileges at 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 were 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 Swetambaris to exclusive privileges of worship are disallowed. These parties are to adhere to the time-table of 1905 and to obey the time regulations and procedure of worship 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 gadis 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 insiting 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 limit imposed therein.
Finally, an injunction is granted against the Defendants and all other Digambaris restraining them from interfering with the Swetambaris in શ્રી અંતરિક્ષ પાર્શ્વનાથ
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