Bhashyam Ayyangar, T., speaking for the division Bench, made the following observation at p. 63 7: "But, assuming, as the first defendant says, that some five years before the adoption the plaintiff wanted her to take One of his sons in adoption, there is nothing improper in a sapinda proposing to give his assent to the widow adopting his own son. if such son be th e nearest sapinda, and refusing to give his assent to her adopting a stranger or a distant sapinda, if there be no reasonable objection to the adoption of his own son. . " These observations are in the nature of obiter, for these were not necessary for disposing of that appeal in view of the fact that no consent of the said sapinda was asked for Be it as it may, the observations of Bhashyam Ayyangar, J., deserve the highest respect, for his erudition in Hindu law is unquestioned But these observations were made in the year 1903 at a time when the scope of the power of sapindas ' consent had not become crystallised.