Anusapati

Anusapati
King of Singhasari
Reign 1227 – 1248
Predecessor Ken Arok
Successor Panji Tohjaya
Died 1248
Full name
Anusapati
Dynasty Rajasa dynasty
Father Tunggul Ametung
Mother Ken Dedes

Anusapati, Anushanatha, or Anushapati, the second king of Singhasari (a kingdom located in east Java between 1222 and 1248).

He was the son of Tunggul Ametung, the first husband of Ken Dedes. Anushapati assassinated Ken Arok in 1227, avenging his father's death.[1]:185–188

Tunggul Ametung, who was a resident of Singashari before it became a kingdom, was killed by Ken Arok using a cursed kris, a type of Javanese knife, forged by Mpu Gandring. After he killed Tunggul Ametung, Ken Arok married Ken Dedes and built a Singashari Kingdom where he was the first king. Ken Arok married Ken Dedes because she was a very beautiful woman and was the Nareshwari, who could bring power to any man who married her.

Anusapati was killed by his half-brother, Panji Tohjaya by the same kris he used to kill Ken Arok.The keris is said to be cursed and Ken Arok's next seven generation's will all die by the keris.

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References

  1. ↑ Cœdès, George (1968). The Indianized states of Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824803681.


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