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³ Souza, o. c., I, p. 130. Dr. S. Krishnaswami Aiyangar, in his Introduction to Satyanatha Aiyar's History of the Nayaks, p. 13, supposes that St. Xavier converted the Paravas. Again the same is supposed in p. 123, note 43. I have been told that the Paravas themselves maintain they were converted by Xavier. Cf. Castets, St. Francis Xavier's Indian Mission, p. 7-12; Miranda, The Introduction of Christianity into the Heart of India, p. 6. But it is historically evident that the majority of the Paravas were Christians from 1533 or 1534, when St. Xavier was not yet in India. Xavier went there