Senopati 4063520 219975564 2008-06-17T18:40:39Z SmackBot 433328 Date the maintenance tags or general fixes {{Inappropriate tone|date=June 2008}} '''Senopati''' (ing Alaga Sayiddin Kalifatullah Tanah Jawi) (1584-1601) (born as Sutawijaya) was the first and legendary king of the [[Mataram Sultanate]] Kingdom. He was the son of [[Ki Ageng Pemanahan]], one of Hadiwidjaja, the Duke of [[Pajang]]'s retainer and loyal servant, and then adopted by the Duke as his son. He was noted for killing the main opposition to the Duke, Prince [[Haryo Penangsang]] of Jipang-Panola, the last descendant of [[Demak]] sultanate, thus gaining victory for his godfather's [[Pajang]] kingdom. Both him and his father were granted the dukedom of [[Mataram]], which then grew to a new sovereign kingdom and a dynasty that lasts until recent days. During his reign the kingdom still used Javanese traditions, though the [[Islam]] already was introduced to [[Java (island)|Java]]. It was the Javanese [[Muslim]] state of Pajang (and the ancient Hindu-Javanese kingdom of Mataram, still on the same site) that got in trouble when Panembahan Senopati schemed to undermine the authority of the King of Pajang. Senopati had conquered the Mataram district himself and c. 1576 he conquered the area of Pajang, imposed the new religion and established his own court. The Mataram ruler refused to embrace the Islam and many historiographical problems surrounded Senopati's reign. Like he concentrated his spiritual powers through meditation and ascetism. So Senopati's reliance upon both Sunan Kalijaga and [[Nyai Loro Kidul]] in the chronicles accounts nicely reflects the Mataram Dynasty's ambivalence towards Islam and indigenous Javanese beliefs. The straight line between Mount [[Merapi]] at the north and the southern sea, with the Mataram kingdom at the center was s strong concept of cosmology among the Javanese. His grandson [[Sultan Agung]] (the Great Sultan, 1613 - 1645) was described as a great Muslim ruler and who was claimed as the greatest of Mataram's rulers. {{Fact|date=June 2008}} Though both (Senopati and Sultan Agung) established a liaison with the Goddess of the Southern Ocean of [[Nyai Loro Kidul]]. <ref>Ricklefs, M.C.(1993) ''A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1300''. The Macmillan Press second edition. ISBN 0-333-57690-X</ref> ==References== * Koentjaraningrat. ''Javanese Culture''. Oxford University Press, Singapore Oxford New York 1990. ISBN 0 19 588907 X ==Notes== <references /> ==External links== * [http://www.joglosemar.co.id/mataramking.html The Mataram Kingdom & Royal Palaces - in English] [[Category:History of Java]] [[Category:Indonesian monarchs]] [[Category:Sultans of Mataram]] {{SEAsia-hist-stub}} [[id:Sutawijaya]]