The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday recognised the Bhojshala complex in Dhar as a temple dedicated to Goddess Vagdevi (Saraswati), in a verdict on the long-standing dispute involving the Kamal Maula mosque, and set aside a 2003 Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) order that had allowed Muslims to offer prayers at the site.
The ruling was delivered by a division bench of Justices Vijay Kumar Shukla and Alok Awasthi of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, which held that historical records and literary evidence supported the identification of the Bhojshala complex as a centre of Sanskrit learning associated with Raja Bhoj of the Parmar dynasty.
