[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v3.c46.77 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.77 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.77 - **Language:** English ### [v3.c46.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.77) He retains his attachment to his former family and uses a good deal of the income for his relatives and friends. Real reform of the \*maṭhas\* cannot come unless great improvements are made in selecting a successor. There must be several disciples, the selection must not be made on the incumbent's death-bed, representative bodies must have a voice in the selection. The heads of ascetic \*maṭhas\* have often come to the courts on questions about dignity, jurisdiction and properties. For example, in 3 Moore's Indian Appeals p. 198 the Śṛṅgerī Pontiff claimed a declaration that he alone was entitled to proceed on the public road in a palanquin crosswise and for an injunction restraining the \*Swāmi\* of the Lingayats from doing so; in \*Madhusudan Parvat v. Shree Madhav Teertha\*, 33 Bom. 278, the Śaṁkarācārya of the Śāradā \*maṭha\* at Dwarka sued for a declaration that the defendant was not entitled to the title and dignities of a Śaṁkarācārya and that he was not entitled to call for or receive any offerings from people at Ahmedabad or other places in Gujarat either in his assumed capacity of a Śaṁkarācārya or as a Śaṁkarācārya of the Jyotir-maṭha (this claim was also rejected on the grounds that the suit was not of a civil nature and that the offerings were voluntary). - [Previous: v3.c46.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.76) - [Next: v3.c46.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.78) - [Up: v3.c46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c46.77) · Pramāṇa