Chennai Court February 1910 Judgments

Bashiakar and anr. Vs. Venkata Varada Thatha Chariar Alias Cihnnasawmy ...

Court: Chennai

Reported in: 7Ind.Cas.148

1. The plaintiffs, who are the descendants of one Kotikannikadanam Sri Thatha Desikar of Conjeeveram, claim for themselves and others belonging to that family the stotrapata miras in the pagoda of Sri Devaraja Swami and the other minor shrines in Conjeeveram. They allege that it is their duty or their right to recite the Sanskrit stotrams in praise of these various deities at the times and places referred to in the schedule attached to the plaint. The defendants are some of the Tengalai Brahmins of Conjeeveram and they are sned on behalf of all the Tengalais. They have got the adyapakam miras in all those temples, i.e., the right to recite the Tamil prabandhams. It is the plaintiffs' case that when they recite the stotrams, they are disturbed by the Tengalais reciting their prabnndhums, and they accordingly seek for a declaration of their right to recite the stotrams on the occasions referred to in the plaint schedule and also for an injunction to restrain the Tengalais from interferin...