The Rashtrakutas and their Times c21.142

c21.142

Several law writers from Baudhāyana downwards observe that the custom of marrying the maternal uncle's daughter prevailed among the inhabitants of the Deccan. Inscriptions of our period refer to a number of cases of such marriages. Jagattunga, the predeceased son of Kṛṣṇa II, had married a daughter of his maternal uncle S'ankaragaṇa.¹¹² The same was the case with Indra IV. Such marriages are recognised as valid by the Dharmas'āstra literature for the Deccanese and are still not unknown. They may have been fairly in vogue in our period.