Shatrunjaya Dispute

Author(s): Makanji J Mehta
Publisher: Jain Shwetambar Conference Mumbai

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by a Sanad declaring that the Paragana of Palitana which was given as Jagir to Murad Bax was granted by the latter as an Inam to Shantidas. In the same year Murad Bax confirmed the said Paragana to Shantidas and his descendents. The said grant was further confirmed by a later Sanad of the same year by Emperor Aurangzeb, and it was endorsed by his son Bahadur Shah.
endore year by confirme
These Sanads were produced in the proceedings before Mr. Candy, who, after examining the evidence relating to them, and after giving due weight to the opinion of Colonel Keatinge, came to the conclusion that the Sanads were genuine. He said :
"Among all this mention of the Sanads produced by the Slırawaks, I do not find that the Thakore ever impugned their genuineness. They certainly, from their appearance, seem to be genuine. They are written on manifestly old paper, and bear a number of wonderfully devised seals which could hardly have been sorged. I shall take it, therefore, that the documents are genuine.”
in dealing with the suggestion of Colonel Keatinge that the Moghul Court had not the power to enforce the Sanads at the period they were given, Mr. Candy says as follows ;