The Adi Shankaracharya divided India into four jurisdictions with a Math at the head of each. Under the Western Jurisdiction was placed the territory roughly corresponding to that now know as the Bombay Presidency called the Sarada Mutt at Dwarka Northern India was placed under the Jyotir Math which is now extinct, Eastern India was placed under the Goverdhan Mutt, the subject of the present dispute, and Southem India under the Srigneri Matt in Mysore. We are told that the founder and the Math founded by him are objects of profound veneration of by all sections of pious Hindu. The head of each Math is known by the title of Jagadguru Shankaracharya and his religious authority is widely, if not universally, accepted