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AGREEMENT ARRIVED AT BETWEEN HIS HIGHNESS THE THAKORE SAHEB OF PALITANA AS REPRESENTING THE PALITANA DURBAR AND SHETH ANANDJI KALIANJI AS REPRESENTING THE SWETAMBER
MURTI PUJAK JAIN COMMUNITY OF INDIA.
1. The Shatrunjaya Hill is situate within and forms a portion of the Palitana State, subject to the limitation laid down and the rights of the Jains defined in Resolution No. 1641 dated the 16th March 1877
2. The Jains are entitled to use, for religious purposes and purposes incidental there to, all lands, trees, buildings and superstructures within the Gadh walls, and manage the said religious properties without any control or interference on the part of the Durbar, except for Police purposes.
3. The Jains shall be at liberty without any permission to rebuild (when necessary) repair and maintain the Gadh walls provided that in doing so they do not alter the present dimensions or situation thereof. They will, however, be at liberty to raise such portion of the Gadh wall as forms part of any of the existing temples while raising the height of any such temple to the extent necessary to make the same, one of the walls of the said temple. They will further be at liberty to raise other portions of the said Gadh walls upto a maximum height of 25 feet.
4. The Jains shall manage the temples on the Hill and outside the Gadh walls without any interference on the part of the Durbar.
5. The Paglas, Debris and Chhatris in the hill outside the said Gadh wails belong to the Jains as well as the Kunds and the Visamas subject, as to the last two, to the use thereof by the public and the Jains can repair them without permission.
6. The Palitana Durbar will also maintain and repair the channel (natural courses) feeding the said Kunds.
7. The Jains shall be at liberty, without any permission, to maintain and repair at their cost the road with the parapet walls called the 'Mota Rasta' leading to the said Gadh from the foot of the hill subject to the use of the said road by the public.
8. The Palitana Durbar will maintain and repair at their cost the paths mentioned below:
1, Mota Rasta stretching to Shripuja Tunk. 2 Gheti Payag. 3. Rohishala Kedi. 4. Chha Gau Rasta. 3. Shetrunji river kedi.
Dodh Gau Rasta, 7. Branch road joining the Chha Gau Rasta and other cominencing from Ro
hishala road and meeting the Chha Gau road, and the Jains will have free access there to and thereon.
