Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute

Even Raviklrti the author of the Aihole pragaati who minutely describes the achievements of all the predecessors of his patron mentioning the names of even the petty rulers defeated by them has not a word to say about the sensational overthrow of the early Rastrakiita empire by the founder of the house of his patron. [...] The silence of the Aihole inscription about the defeat of the Rastrakfita king Indra the son of Krsna is in our opinion the most conclusive proof that it is a mere myth invented by the later Calukyas. [...] Bendre examines the relevant sources and concludes " All we can say for the present with any certainty on the strength of the contemporary evidence of such a reliable source as Affonso de Albuquerque is that the death of Ahmad Nizam Shah must have occurred some time between the end of April and the middle of October 1510 or in the beginning of 916 A. H."."162 Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Res [...] ). According to his opinion if the marriage took place in accordance with the customs of one of the lawful kinds of marriage the property of the woman could be enjoyed by the husband for three years but if the marriage took place according to the Gandharva or the Asura forms of marriage the husband was obliged to return the wife's property with interest ( K. 152/9 ) and if the marriage was contra [...] the obligation to pay the husband's debt if the debt was agreed to by the wife (pratipanna) it must be a debt which was incurred in the first instance by the husband but for which the liability was subsequently aocepted by the wife.