Karikala Vallavan and Killivallavan were great Chola kings, whose great deeds are known today thanks to some poets who sang about their great deeds. However even we cannot discern if these poets wrote these songs after a bellyful of wine and ripe imagination. But Mahendra Pallava and Narasimha Pallava left their history and the record of their great deeds through art. That will ensure that they are never forgotten.
