Rajasthan | Running tussle over Galta
India TodayTwo Vaishnavite sects claiming ownership over a venerated temple and math, a beleaguered mahant, decades-long litigation and charges of mismanagement of temple property—Rajasthan’s famous Galta Peeth temple is caught in a vicious temporal tangle. Just 12 km from Jaipur and nestled in the lap of the lush Aravalis, the complex of institutions known as Galta Peeth evolved as a revered Vaishnav centre by the 15th-16th centuries. After registering the peeth—as the law demanded—under the then-new Rajasthan Public Charitable Trust Act in 1963, he also made an allowance for the mahant’s post being a hereditary one—an act many deem to be against temple rules. Ramodaracharya further changed the trust rules in 1999 and made it family-managed, ensuring his descendants would have control over the temple property.
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