Saturday, April 17, 2004

Kertanagara

Kertanagara was the son of princely families - King Vishnuvardhana of Janggala and a princess of Kadiri - so that by birth he was a reuniter of the two halves of the Javanese kingdom. Even his name, Kertanagara, meaning �order in the realm,� might refer to reunion, which was the achievement of a great king according to the Javanese dualistic cosmology. Probably for this reason,

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