Most Balinese trace their ancestry back to a group of courtiers clustering about the great King Baturenggong, a descendant of Kapakisan, who is seen to have presided over a Balinese “Golden Age” in the 16th century. Balinese accounts describe him as: “A king of great authority, a true lion of a man, who was wise [...]

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To the outside world, as to later Balinese writers, the period following Gelgel’s Golden Age was one of chaos — in which fractious kings ruled from courts scattered about the island. This was not necessarily so in contemporary Balinese terms, where the new states must have represented a more dynamic way of conducting the affairs [...]

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