Jain Shwetambar Tirth Shree Antariksh Parshwanath

Author(s): Jambuvijay
Publisher: Sumtilal Ratanchand Patni

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a common enemy, and in order to deprive the Pol. kars of the powers they had usurped, the Digambaris, at the instance of the Swetambaris, agreed to cooperate, with the result that in May 1901, a joint committee of equal numbers of Swetambaris and Digambaris was formed to undertake the management of all affairs, the prime mover in the arrangement on behalf of the Swetambaris having apparently been Kalyanchand Lalchand one of the present respondents.
This com:mittee, acting on behalf of both sects, joined in instituting criminal proceedings against the Polkars, who, as a result, were reduced to the position of servants of both. It was clearly the view of the learned Trial Judge, not dissented from on 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 menagement, 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