The gorge of the Petanu below Bedulu, cut with hermits' niches and, on one long face, a relief of hunters and villagers (board).
The relief is usually dated to the fourteenth century (board), so what belongs on this record is the gorge and its hermitages rather than the carving; the dating is genuinely argued, and we could not open a page that settles it. The niches may be older. In 1200 the gorge is within sight of the court of Bedulu; a hermitage there is plausible and undocumented.
Who holds it
- Title
- Hermits of the gorge
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No hermit is named.
Overlord
the queen and her son, as patrons of the ridge (inference)
What it holds
- The gorge, its niches and the water
How it was acquired
Not known; the relief is usually of the fourteenth century.
Allies and rivals
The hermitages of the royal ridge (Goa Gajah).
How things stand that morning
The relief probably does not exist yet; the gorge and its niches may.
Places of note
- Yeh Pulu: The gorge (the campaign board point).
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry yeh-pulu-petanu marks the dating contested and we agree; the relief is put after 1200 in the usual dating, so only the gorge is drawn.
Evidence: Dating argued; no source of the period.
"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 gorge.
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), History of Bali (read in this pass): Blanjong pillar 4 February 914, Jayapangus plates, Kertanegara 1284, Gajah Mada 1343
- 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.