History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c15.s2.9

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The social relations of these Pallavas also appear to be with the northerners. For instance the Chālukya first king is said to have married a Pallava princess. Then again (Archealogical S. R. Part V) the Vellur plate already quoted states that the wife of Dantivarman was a Kadamba princess* And similarly in a grant at p. 555 it is stated that Nandivarman had married a Rāṣṭrakūṭa lady.† The name of this lady was Revā and her son was properly called Dantivarman from his Rāṣṭrakūṭa grandfather (Dubreuil p. 75). Whether the Pallavas married Dravidian Chola, Pāṇḍya, Kerala princesses we do not know. But it is not strange if they did, for the Mahārāṣṭra Aryan Kshatriyas also married Nāgavaṃśa princesses. The theory then was that a Kshatriya could take a wife from any caste down to Śūdras and the progeny still remained Kshatriya. The southern Aryans of the lunar race like the northern ones appear to have mixed themselves with Nāga families freely.