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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 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 were left 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. The parties are to adhere to the time table of 1905 and to obey the time regulations and procedure or 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 insisting upon their right to worship the image without ornaments, and in their own way and in their own time according to the time-table. Each party is therefore directed strictly to adhere to the time-table 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 the plastering of the idol so as to show the configuration on it of a waist-band 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 that they shall be shown with as light a touch of plaster and as faintly as possible."
Both parties were dissatisfied, and the surviving plaintiff Swetambaris by notice of appeal and the defendant Digambaris by cross-objections to the decree, set up again before the Court Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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