Çri Maharaja Çri Ragajaya was a
Balinese king who ruled in the middle of the 12th century CE.
The territory of his kingdom most likely covered only the areas north of
Lake Batur
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(North Bali) and East Bali, mainly from
Tejakula in
Buleleng Regency
Buleleng ( ban, ᬓᬩᬸᬧᬢᬾᬦ᭄ᬩᬸᬮᭂᬮᭂᬂ, Kabupatén Buléléng) is a regency (''kabupaten'') of Bali, Indonesia. It has an area of 1,365.88 km2 and population of 624,125 at the 2010 census and 791,910 at the 2020 cen ...
to Bugbug in
Karangasem Regency
Karangasem Regency (Indonesian: ''Kabupaten Karangasem'') is a regency (''kabupaten'') of Bali, Indonesia. It covers the east part of Bali, has an area of 839.54 km2 and had a population of 396,487 at the 2010 Census which rose to 492,402 ...
. The king's name is mentioned on the
Tejakula inscription, dated to 1077
Saka
The Saka ( Old Persian: ; Kharoṣṭhī: ; Ancient Egyptian: , ; , old , mod. , ), Shaka (Sanskrit ( Brāhmī): , , ; Sanskrit (Devanāgarī): , ), or Sacae (Ancient Greek: ; Latin: ) were a group of nomadic Iranian peoples who hist ...
(or 1155 CE).
In the inscription, the king appointed the village of Sabhaya to do the ''jataka'' (tax-free land) for the benefit of a sacred temple,
which was named the ''Bhatara ri Kunjarasana''.
In return, the villagers were granted various rights for the obligations they had to do.
King Ragajaya is estimated to reign after King
Jayasakti (1133-1150 AD), and before King
Jayapangus
Jayapangus (r. 1178–81) was a king of Bali. He is known through his inscriptions, some of them related to taxes.
Biography
He was a descendant of the famous ruler Airlangga.Barski, p.34
Jayapangus was maybe a father of Queen Arjayadengjayak ...
(1178–1181 AD).
The statutes used during his time were called ''Uttara Widdhi Balawan'' and ''Raja Wacana'' (also called ''Raja Niti''), which had been used since Queen
Sakalendukirana's time at the end of the 11th century.
See also
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Bali Kingdom
The Kingdomship of Bali was a series of Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms that once ruled some parts of the volcanic island of Bali, in Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia. With a history of native Balinese kingship spanning from the early 10th to early 20t ...
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List of monarchs of Bali
This is a list of monarchs of the Bali Kingdom, an island in the Indonesian archipelago. Included are, first, rulers on an island-wide level, and, second, rajas of minor states that arose in the 17th and 18th centuries. The sequence and dates of th ...
References
Monarchs of Bali
Indonesian Hindu monarchs
12th-century monarchs in Asia
12th-century Indonesian people
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