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(7) I hold the theory that I have enunciated in my work "The Pallavas" (Pondicherry, 1917): "The earliest Pallavas were not kings, and they were alien to South India. One of them married the daughter of one of the kings of that country and thus became a king himself" (The Pallavas, page 23). At the time of the Girnar inscription the Western Satrapas reigned in Âparânta and had a Pahlava for their minister. These Pahlavas were the neighbours of the Nâgas when the Chuṭu-Nâgas reigned in Âparânta (Kaṇhêri inscription of the mother of Skanda-Nâga, No. 1021 of Lüders's list). A Pallava prince married the daughter of the King Śiva-Skanda-Nâga-Śâtakarṇi, and inherited the throne of Kâñchî.