declaration that the
said properties and income thereof formed a specific
endowment for the said due performance of the services of
Kalyanotsovam of the deity ... specific endowment and that the lands were
endowed for the purpose of Kalyanotsavam and for other
purposes incidental thereto and constituted a specific
trust
plaintiff alleged that the property in dispute constituted a specific endowment for Kalyanotsavam of the deity and that the defendants who were trustees had committed ... specific endowment and that the lands were endowed for the purpose of Kalyanotsavam and for other purposes incidental thereto and constituted a specific trust
decree for removing the trustee of a Math or a
specific endowment attached to a Math for any
one or more of the following reasons ... decree for removal of
the trustee of a Math or a specific endowment attached to a
Math on any of the grounds. mentioned therein
declaring that the temple in
question and the specific endowments attached thereto shall
be subject to the provisions of Chapter VI-A of the said ... certain Hindu Religious Endowments. The Act contemplated
the supervision of these endowments through a statutory
body called the Madras Hindu Religious Endowments Board. It
divided
Tilkayat Shri Govindlalji Maharaj vs The State Of Rajasthan And Others on 21 January, 1963
object of this first endowment was not
one for the general purposes of the Durgah but for a
specific purpose, namely, 'langar khana ... made specific recommen-
dations as to the manner in which reform should be
introduced in the management and administration of the
Durgah Endowment by legislative
made
therein;
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(5) to ensure that funds of the specific and
religious endowments are spent accordi
ng to the
wishes
regard to them, save as to specific
property proved to have been vested in him for a specific
object. The question which the Privy Council ... Hindu religious or
charitable endowment shall be deemed to be property vested
in trust for a specific purpose, and the manager of any such
property
members of a family or a
specified individual, then the endowment can only be
regarded as public, intended to benefit the general body of
worshippers ... facts which was held in that case to indicate
that the endowment was public was that the idol was
installed not within the precincts
Chicory Marketing Board, 60 C.L.R. 263, The
Commissioner, Hindu Religious Endowments, Madras v. Sri
Lakshmindra Thirtha Swamiar of Sri Shirur Mutt ... test must be
whether its primary and essential purpose is to render
specific services to a specified area or class, it being of
no consequence
