Śri Wijaya Mahadewi of

Bali Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nu ...

(

floruit ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

983), was a

queen regnant A queen regnant (plural: queens regnant) is a female monarch, equivalent in rank and title to a king, who reigns ''suo jure'' (in her own right) over a realm known as a "kingdom"; as opposed to a queen consort, who is the wife of a reignin ...

of the

Kingdom of Bali 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 2 ...

in 983-989. She is attested from the Gobleg inscription, in which she granted her gave permission to the residents of Air Tabar to become the guardian of the Indrapura Temple located within the village of Air Tabar. She did not use the sign of the Warmadewa dynasty, which has been the subject of a number of theories. It has been suggested that she came from

Srivijaya Srivijaya ( id, Sriwijaya) was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra (in modern-day Indonesia), which influenced much of Southeast Asia. Srivijaya was an important centre for the expansion of Buddhism from the 7th t ...

, signifying how the power of Srivijaya had expanded to Bali. Another opinion is the she was the daughter of king

Mpu Sindok Śrī Mahārāja Rake Hino Dyaḥ Siṇḍok Śrī Īśānawikrama Dharmottuṅgadewawijaya (also known as Dyah Sindok, Mpu Sindok or Sindok) was the last king of the Sanjaya dynasty who ruled the Mataram Kingdom, Kingdom of Mataram from Central Ja ...

. Sri Wijaya Mahadewi died in 989 and left the throne to a king and a queen in co-regency.

References

* Marwati Djoened Poesponegoro, Nugroho Notosusanto: ''Sejarah nasional Indonesia: untuk SMP.'' Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1984 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sri Wijaya Mahadewi 10th-century women rulers Queens regnant Monarchs of Bali Indonesian Hindu monarchs 10th-century Indonesian women