Dalem Di Madewas a king ofBaliwho may have reigned in the period 1623–1642.[1]He belonged to a dynasty that claimed descent from theMajapahitEmpireofJava,and kept residence inGelgel,close to Bali's south coast.
Reign
editDalem Di Made was one of the fourteen sons of the rulerDalem Seganing.After the death of the former, dated 1623 in one source, he succeeded to the throne of Gelgel. The main source for his reign, theBabad Dalem,is a work from the 18th century, and the account of his reign is not entirely coherent. TheBabad Dalempraises the royal splendour of his court in glowing terms, and provides a wealth of details about the noblemen tied to his court.[2]Another historical text,Babad Ratu Tabanan,provides details about a military expedition to Java in his reign. The Balinese army, led by the vassal lord Gusti Wayahan Pamedekan, was met bySultan AgungofMataram(r. 1613–1646) and was decisively defeated.[3]
Loss of power
editThe last section of theBabad Dalemrelates that the powers of the king eventually declined, and that various noblemen left Gelgel. The chief minister of the king,Anglurah Agung(d. 1686), usurped power, and the old ruler was forced to flee to the highland village Guliang in the modernBangliregency, where he finally died. Loyal aristocrats were later on able to support his two sons and defeat Anglurah Agung. A new royal palace was built inKlungkung(Semarapura), four kilometers north of the old Gelgel residence.[4]The eldest son of the deceased king, Dewa Agung Jambe I, was established as ruler, but unlike his predecessors he was unable to wield power over entire Bali.[5]The island was in effect split up in nine autonomous kingdoms, a situation that would endure until the 19th century.[6]
External accounts of reign
editFrom non-Balinese sources it is known that the Gelgel kingdom still made claims overBlambanganinEast Java,Lombok,andSumbawa(including its eastern part,Bima), in the 1630s.[7]TheDutch East Indies Company(Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) tried to gain Gelgel as a political ally against theMuslimMataramkingdom in 1633, which failed. Later, Bali fought a series of wars on its own with Mataram over the possession of Blambangan, in 1635-1647. In the end, the Balinese influence over Blambangan prevailed. According to VOC sources, the death of a Gelgel ruler in 1651 led to internal conflicts on Bali.[8]Later on, from 1665, the Dutch entertained contacts with a new lord of Gelgel, Anglurah Agung of the Balinese accounts. This Anglurah Agung is mentioned by both Balinese and Dutch texts as having been killed in battle in 1686.[9]The actual date of death of Dalem Di Made is in doubt. A number of Balinese sources give the date 1642. It has also been suggested that he was the ruler who died in 1651, or that his reign ended as late as c. 1665.[10]He is the first Gelgel ruler who is mentioned by name in a Dutch source, since the Balinese prince Raja Sangsit, who settled inBataviain 1687, claimed to be his nephew.[11]
Family
editDalem Di Made had seven consorts: 1-2. Ni Gusti Peling (being two twin sisters); 3. Ni Gusti Pacekan, daughter of Kiyayi di Ler; 4. Ni Gusti Tangkeban, daughter of Gusti Agung; 5. Ni Gusti Selat, daughter of Gusti Kamasan; 6. a daughter of Ki Dukuh Suladri; and 7. a daughter of Gusti Jambe Pule ofBadung.He sired nine sons; eight of these are enumerated in theBabad Dalem.Later sources mention still another son, Dewa Agung Jambe, who later became the first ruler ofKlungkungin 1686.[12]
- Dewa Pambahyun
- Dewa Pacekan
- Dewa Ketut
- Dewa Budi
- Dewa Bukian
- Dewa Tampwagan.
- Dewa Batan Nyambu
- Dewa Gianyar.
- Dewa Agung Jambe I, King ofKlungkung
See also
editReferences
edit- ^Hans Hägerdal (2006).Candrasangkala: The Balinese art of dating events(PDF). Department of Humanities, University of Växjö, Sweden, p. 25-26.
- ^I Wayan Warna et al. (tr.)Babad Dalem; Teks dan Terjemahan.Dinas Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Daerah Tingkat I Bali 1986, pp. 94–5.
- ^A.A. Gde Darta et al. (tr.),Babad Arya Tabanan dan Ratu Tabanan.Denpasar: Upada Sastra 1996, pp. 100-1.
- ^Margaret J. Wiener,Visible and invisible realms. Power, magic, and colonial conquest in Bali.Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press 1995, pp. 128-9.
- ^Helen Creese, "Sri Surawirya, Dewa Agung of Klungkung (c. 1722-1736): The historical context for dating the Kakawin Parthayana",Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde147 1991.
- ^Vickers, A.(1989).Bali: A Paradise Created.Singapore: Periplus. p. 56-58.ISBN978-1-4629-0008-4.OCLC728479921.
- ^Hans Hägerdal, "‘From Batuparang to Ayudhya; Bali and the Outside World, 1636-1656",Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde154 1998, pp. 70-1.
- ^J.K.J. de Jonge,De opkomst van het Nederlandsch gezag in Oost-Indië,Vol. VI. 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff 1872, p. 94.
- ^H.J. de Graaf, "Goesti Pandji Sakti, vorst van Boeleleng",Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde83.
- ^H. Creese, 'Balinese Babad as Historical Sources; A Reinterpretation of the Fall of Gelgel',Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde147 1991.
- ^H. Hägerdal, 'Bali in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Suggestions for a Chronology of the Gelgel Period',Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde151 1995, p. 118.
- ^I Wayan Warna et al. (tr.) 1986, pp. 94–5; H. Creese 1991.
Further reading
edit- C.C. Berg,De middeljavaansche historische traditië.Santpoort: Mees.