Please see this interesting ref to King's meikeerthi's
The composer of an inscription has said, and probably, in a normal sense, rightly, that dance in the darkness is an impossibility. Let kings compose hundreds of mellifluous poems, or chum up hosts of foes on the battlefield, or scatter their wealth on deserving donees, but with the passage of time all these their exploits would be like dancing in utter darkness if these were not recorded by poets in *prasastis:
kurvantu kirtanasatani rananganeshu mathnantu vairinikaram dhanam utsrijantu kalanatare tad akhilam prabalandhakaranrityopamam kavijanair anibaddhyamanam (Epigraph. Ind. 27,* p. 281).