Śri Wijaya Mahadewi of

Bali Bali (English:; Balinese language, Balinese: ) is a Provinces of Indonesia, 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 o ...

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floruit ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for '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 indic ...

983), was a

queen regnant A queen regnant (: queens regnant) is a female monarch, equivalent in rank, title and position to a king. She reigns ''suo jure'' (in her own right) over a realm known as a kingdom; as opposed to a queen consort, who is married to a reigning ...

of the Kingdom of Bali in 983-989.Marwati Djoened Poesponegoro, Nugroho Notosusanto: ''Sejarah nasional Indonesia: untuk SMP.'' Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 1984 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 The Warmadewa dynasty, also Varmadeva dynasty, was a regnal dynasty on the island of Bali. History There is little explicit information about how the various monarchs called Warmadewa were related to each other. The term "dynasty", in this contex ...

, which has been the subject of a number of theories. It has been suggested that she came from

Srivijaya Srivijaya (), also spelled Sri Vijaya, was a Hinduism, Hindu-Buddhism, Buddhist thalassocracy, thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra (in modern-day Indonesia) that influenced much of Southeast Asia. Srivijaya was an important ...

, 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 Halu 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.

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