Dewa Pacekan was a prince on the Island of

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, who possibly ruled the island kingdom for a short time, in 1642–1650. He belonged to a dynasty stemming from the

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, which had its palace (

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) in Gelgel, near Bali's south coast. According to Balinese

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he was the second son of king

Dalem Di Made Dalem Di Made was a king of Bali who may have reigned in the period 1623–1642. He belonged to a dynasty that claimed descent from the Majapahit Empire of Java, and kept residence in Gelgel, close to Bali's south coast. Reign Dalem Di Made w ...

, who may have died in 1642. In Dutch sources from the 1630s, he appears to be mentioned as 'Patiekan' or 'Paadjakan', son of the current ruler. In the religious text ''Rajapurana Besakih'', he is listed as the last deified ancestor of the Gelgel dynasty. He may therefore have succeeded Dalem Di Made, although later Balinese historical texts do not actually mention him as ruler in his own right. One text mentions that he directed his troops against the army of the Javanese

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Mataram kingdom in 1646. This confrontation is also described in

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and Javanese sources. His death is placed by Balinese texts in 1650.

sources relate that the

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sent an embassy to Bali in 1651, but found on arrival that the unnamed king had recently died, and that chaotic internecine wars raged on the island.H. Hägerdal, 'Bali in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Suggestions for a Chronology of the Gelgel Period', ''Bijdragen tot de Taal-'', Land- en Volkenkunde 151 1995, pp. 115-8.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pacekan, Dewa History of Bali Monarchs of Bali Balinese people 1650 deaths Year of birth unknown 17th-century Indonesian people

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