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The Second Sanskrit Literary Conference was held on the Rishikul grounds at Hardwar on the 7th, 8th, and 9th April during the Khumbha Mela days.
Mr. C. S. C. Nainor, Arkonam, has sent us a note of his visit in March last to the ancient Jaina temple in Arunganam Village, Trutani Division, Karvat Nagar, Samasthan, Chitoor District, about 50 miles from Madras. It is about 4 miles from Tratani Railway Station ; and is known to have been built some 3,000 years ago. The daily worship is maintained from the produce of some land, given by Government. The village is
inbabited by non-Jainas, who offer worship at the temple. A ( solemn worship has been arranged for the 25th June 1915.
His Lordship, Mr. Justice Chamier, heard an appeal preferred by one Lala Ajit Prasad against an order of the district judge of Saharanpur, allowing a decree for restitution of conjugal rights to the appellant's wife. It appears that the wife of the appellant, one Musammat Bhaglu, brought a suit for restitution of conjugal rights and injunction against her husband, the appellant. She alleged that the appellant had married a second wife with her consent for the sake of having issue. A couple of years after the marriage the husband came under the influence of the second wife and began to live in another house leaving her in the old house by herself. Since then he never cared to come to her or allow her to go to his house, and he is trying to sell the house in which the plaintiff was living. She prayed that the court should order her husband to perform all ihe duties of a husband towards her. The first court dismissed her claim. The lower appellate coart granted her a decree for restitution of conjugal rights and ordered the defendant to receive her in his house.
His lordship held that the wife was entitled to a decree for restitution of conjugal rights, but the form of the decree passed by the lower court was objectionable. His lordship while ordering the defendant to receive the wife into his house
and do all the duties of a husband said, that in case be failed to Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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