As observed by the Privy Council in Sheokuarbai vs Jeoraff.(1) The Jains are of Hindu origin; they are Hindu dissenters, and although as was pointed out by Mr. Mayne in paragraph 46 of his Hindu Law and Usages "Generally adhering to ordinary Hindu law, that is, the law of the three (1) 426 superior castes, they recognise, no divine authority in the Vedas and do not practise the Shradhs, or ceremony for the dead." "The due performance of the Shradhs, or religious ceremonies for the dead, is at the base of the religious theory of adoption, but the Jains; have so generally adopted the Hindu law that the Hindu rules of adoption are applied to them in the absence of some contrary usage x x x." But amongst the Jainsa custom enabling a widow to adopt a son to her husband without express authority has been reco.