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Majapahit's Javanese-Hindu Calendar: Timekeeping in a Rice Empire
Long before clocks and digital calendars, the Majapahit Empire ran on a sophisticated timekeeping system that blended Hindu cycles, agricultural rhythms, and royal ceremony. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the Javanese-Hindu calendar used in fourteenth-century Trowulan — the wuku week of 210 days, the lunar-solar adjustments for rice harvests, and the saka era that anchored everything. They explore how Hayam Wuruk's court used calendar rituals to project power, how the Negarakertagama records specific dates for temple dedications, and why the Paregreg civil war disrupted the…
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