Narasimhavarman I was succeeded by his son Mahendravarman II. He was an insignificant ruler mentioned in the Kuram plates as one who ‘thoroughly enforced the sacred law of castes and orders’.
He must have ruled for a very short period about a year or so. Some scholars consider Appar as his contemporary but we have already treated Appar as the contemporary of Mahendravarman I.
Vikramaditya, son of Pulakesin II who revived the Western Chalukya rule after an interregnum was now trying to punish the Pallavas for what they had done to his father. Mahendravarman II seems to have resisted the Chalukya but he fell in battle in doing so.