Sadasiva Aiyar, J.

1. The plaintiffs are the appellants in this second appeal. They brought the suit out of which this second appeal has arisen as representatives of the Ilaivaniyar community in the village of Panakudy. The defendants represent the Brahmins, Mudaliars and Pillars in that village. The plaintiffs pray for the following main reliefs:

(a) a declaration as against the defendants and their communities, Brahmins, Vellalas and Mudaliars of the right of the plaintiffs and of their castemen residing at Panakudy to go so far as the Sabapathy Sannadhi and as far as the front of the Pulliarai in the Amman Sannadhi in the said Panakudy Sri Ramalingaswami Temple and worship the Swamies and Amman and to receive prasatham, etc., after performing Abishekam, Archanai, Neivediam, etc., during the Mandagapadi occasions and on ordinary occasions;" and

(b) a permanent injunction restraining the defendants and their community from causing any obstruction to the plaintiffs and their castemen in their performing the above acts claiming the said right by virtue of such declaration.

2. The principal compartments of an ordinary Siva temple are (1) the Garbagriham where the principal fixed