Somebody is king of Sunda in 1200, and nobody names him.
The record gives the nearest dated name, Sri Jayabhupati (Saka 952, 1030), and the later chronicle's Dharmasiksa, who is dated 1175 to 1297 in a way that cannot be right as one reign. The seat is not known either: Pakuan in the gap between Salak and Pangrango, Saunggalah under the Ciremai, Galuh/Kawali in the east and Banten Girang in the north-west are all candidates, and the campaign board marks three of them contested. Pakuan as a place did not gain major political importance until the fifteenth century (en.wikipedia).
The Wangsakerta tale that Majapahit's founder Wijaya was a Sundanese king's grandson belongs to the rejected material. For the game: a Sundanese king exists, rules a loose country from an uncertain seat, and sells pepper.
Who he is
- Title
- King (raja) of Sunda
- Since
- not pinned
- Born
- not known
- Confidence
- low
Sri Jayabhupati, whose Sanghyang Tapak plates are dated Saka 952 (1030), is the last king named in an inscription. The Carita Parahyangan (about 1580) names Prabu Guru Dharmasiksa for 1175 to 1297, a length no single reign could have; the Wangsakerta manuscripts (1677) are widely rejected.
Overlord
none attested
What it holds
- The Sundanese uplands round Pakuan (claimed seat) and the roads to both coasts
- By claim the whole Sunda realm
How things stand that morning
Unknown. No source dates his reign, court, war or embassy.
Wealth
Pepper and the road tolls; no figures.
Military
Not recorded.
Threats
- No stable hold on the coast (the Chinese report of about 1225)
- Java to the east
Places of note
- Pakuan (claimed seat): Gap between Salak and Pangrango; the seat is a convention.
Where the sources disagree
- The campaign board entry pakuan-pajajaran says the seat 'claimed for the Sundanese king in this period' is Pakuan and gives Prabu Guru Darmasiksa a reign from 1175: both from the Carita Parahyangan. We keep Pakuan only as a conventional seat.
Evidence: One dated royal inscription (1030) and a late chronicle.
"The campaign board" is OMNIA's working map. These notes record where its earlier claims were checked against the sources.
On the map: The seat is a convention; the king's lands are not known.
Primary sources for Sunda
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.
- 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
- 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), Sunda Kingdom (read in this pass): Sanghyang Tapak 952 Saka (1030), Kebon Kopi 932, Horren, Carita Parahyangan caveats, Zhu Fan Zhi on Sin-t'o, Bujangga Manik boundary
- Wikipedia (en), Galuh Kingdom (read in this pass): Kawali, Astana Gede (14th century), source caveats
- 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.