Venugopal: a secular state ought not to be administering temples and controlling temple management, staffing and financial decisions. we are particularly concerned about acquisition of sacred sites which are believed for millennia to be divine and sacred sites of worship by the Jain Community. I may only tell mylords are are even older than Buddhism. If we look at Mahaveer, who is the 24th Tirthankar, he historically existed in the 8th or 9th century.