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Mpu Prapanca's Nagarakretagama: Majapahit's Lost Epic Found
In 1894, a Dutch scholar stumbled upon a palm-leaf manuscript in a Lombok palace that would rewrite Southeast Asian history: the Nagarakretagama, a 14th-century Javanese poem by the court poet Mpu Prapanca. This episode explores the poem's discovery, its portrait of Hayam Wuruk's golden age, and its candid glimpses of Majapahit's court, religion, and geography. We discuss Mpu Prapanca's role as a chronicler, the poem's structure as a kakawin, and how it became the single most important source for the empire we know today. From the king's royal tour to the list of…
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