[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of the Pallavas of Kanchi](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928) › c5.6.4 # History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c5.6.4 History of the Pallavas of Kanchi c5.6.4 - **Language:** English ### [c5.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c5.6.4) But at the outset those Pallavas that issued these Sanskrit charters lay claim to having acquired their royal position by an influential marriage with a Nāga princess and by that means became ‘possessed of a wife and a kingdom simultaneously’ This could only mean that the Nāga alliance brought in an accession of territory which put their claim to independent rule on a really more legitimate footing than that of mere conquest or occupation, which might have been regarded as a mere act of usurpation. - [Previous: c5.6.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c5.6.3) - [Next: c5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c5.7) - [Up: c5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c5.6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c5.6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.gopalan-1928.c5.6.4) · Pramāṇa