Old Javanese charters name the officers who stand round the king in a fixed order: the chief minister, the four rakryan mahamantri of the great offices (called i hino, i sirikan, i halu and i wka in the Medang and Kahuripan plates; whether the Kediri plates of the 1190s use the same four is not pinned), the senapati (generals), the dharmadhyaksa (judges), and the officers who run the royal revenue (those who register the king's wealth) and the markets.
The Jaring plate of Gandra (1181) is the plate that lists Kediri's officers and gives some of them animal titles: Kbo Salawah, Gajah Kuning and Macan Putih on en.wikipedia (the campaign board has a yellow tiger, a yellow elephant and a sound buffalo), together with a senapati sarwwajala, 'commander of the waters'. These are titles of 1181, not holders of 1200. For the game: the great offices exist and are held; the names are for the campaign to give.
Who he is
- Title
- Rakryan mahamantri i hino, i sirikan, i halu and i wka, with the chief minister (mapatih) and the senapati
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
The title list is the standard one of the Javanese charters of the tenth to twelfth centuries (recalled, not checked against the Kamulan and Palah texts). No officer of 1200 is named in a source we could read.
Overlord
Kertajaya
What it holds
- The king's justice, the army and fleet command, the revenue and the markets, delegated to named officers; no holdings are recorded
How things stand that morning
The offices are in being; no holder is named for 1 January 1200.
Threats
- Court faction (nothing dated)
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry jaring-sima-village names the animal titles yellow tiger, yellow elephant and sound buffalo; en.wikipedia lists Kbo Salawah, Gajah Kuning and Macan Putih. The plate itself did not open here.
Evidence: A standard list recalled from the charters of the period, with the Jaring plate of 1181 as the one Kediri list; no holders for 1200.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: Court offices, no land to draw.
Primary sources for Kediri
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.
- History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- 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.
- A Description of the Foreign Peoples (Records of Foreign Nations), Zhao Rukuo (Zhao Rugua) (1225 at Quanzhou). The best single text for the island world around 1200, written by the superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou from merchants' reports a generation after the date. Read online
- Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the Passes, Zhou Qufei (周去非) (1178, after service in Guangxi). A Guangxi official's notes, written twenty years before 1200, on the south-western frontier of the Song and the countries beyond. Read online
- Description of the Foreign Peoples (Chau Ju-kua), Zhao Rukuo (趙汝适) (about 1225, while superintendent of maritime trade at Quanzhou). The Song customs officer's survey of the overseas world, compiled from merchants and from Zhou Qufei, a generation after 1200 but describing trade routes that were the same in 1200. Read online
- 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), Kediri Kingdom (read in this pass): Kertajaya 1194-1222, Ceker and Kamulan plates, animal-titled officials under Gandra, Chinese notices, end at Ganter
- Wikipedia (fr), Royaume de Kediri (read in this pass): list of plates Ngantang 1135, Talan 1136, Padelegan II 1159, Kahyunan 1161, Angin 1171, Jaring 1181, Ceker, Galunggung 1194, Kamulan 1194, Palah 1197, Wates Kulon 1205; quotes Zhou Qufei's ranking of Java
- 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.