Ten shrine facades cut straight out of the rock walls of the Pakerisan gorge in the eleventh century, royal memorials to the house of Anak Wungsu (board).
Nothing else in the archipelago is carved like this (board). They stand in the same valley as Tirta Empul and the subak of the Pakerisan (Pakerisan subak). Whether the memorials are tombs or cenotaphs, and which king or queen each commemorates, we did not check; the campaign board's attribution is the one we use. In 1200 they are more than a century old and the royal pair of the island (Queen of Bali) are the heirs of the line that made them, if the line is the same.
Who holds it
- Title
- Keepers of the royal memorials
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No keeper is named. The campaign board ties the memorials to the house of Anak Wungsu.
Overlord
the queen and her son, as heirs of the house (inference)
What it holds
- Ten rock-cut shrines and the gorge cells
How it was acquired
Cut in the eleventh century (board).
Allies and rivals
The Pakerisan water societies below.
How things stand that morning
Standing; use as a royal memorial is likely, not shown.
Places of note
- Gunung Kawi: The gorge shrines (the campaign board point).
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: The monument is certain; the en.wikipedia page for it did not open and the attribution is the campaign board's.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: A disc round the site.
Primary sources for Bali
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Old Javanese Charters (the Brandes and Krom corpus), including the Kediri inscriptions of Kamesvara and Srngga, Various (the Kediri kings and their officers), edited by J. L. A. Brandes and N. J. Krom (inscriptions of the 8th to 15th centuries; edited 1913). Kediri (Panjalu) in 1200 is known from a few royal charters on stone and copper, which this corpus first printed: the records of Kamesvara (about 1182 to 1194) and of Srngga, that is Kertajaya (from about 1194 to 1222), among them the Kamulan charter of 1194 and the Palah (Panataran) record of 1197, with the king's titles, his seal, the officials of the court and the villages freed from tax.
- The Description of the Country, called the Nagarakretagama, Mpu Prapanca (1365 at the Majapahit court). A Majapahit court poem of 1365 listed here only for its retrospect. Read online
Sources and studies
- Wikipedia (en), Warmadewa dynasty (read in this pass): Blanjong pillar, Udayana, Abang Pura Batur A 6 April 1011
- Wikipedia (en), Subak (irrigation) (read in this pass): system begun in the 9th century, first written record about the 11th century (kasuwakara), pekaseh and paruman, UNESCO calls the Pakerisan watershed the oldest known irrigation system in Bali
- General knowledge of Old Javanese and Old Balinese epigraphy and the archaeology of Java, recalled and not re-read in this pass (Boechari, Poerbatjaraka, Soekmono, Bernet Kempers)
- OMNIA board notes for the place (a lead, not a source)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.