Organization of the Clergy and Royal Authority

Abstract

The list of domains of chapter 12 is followed up by a description of the beautiful order in ecclesiastical and social matters resulting from the Royal Family’s asserting their influence. The registration of domains and estates of different kinds mentioned in canto 79 served the end of giving the rural clergy and gentry an interest in the Court’s paramountcy by showing them the Royal Family’s willingness to consider their established rights and to defend them against usurpation. The repeated mention of the Rājapatigu $\mathop n\limits_ \cdot \mathop d\limits_ \cdot$ ala, Royal regulation, in the chapters 13 and 14 draws attention to the reign of law and order under the Royal administration. Though Gajah Mada is not mentioned any more in the poem the excessive glorification of the Royal Family in the last chapters seems expressive of the relief felt in ecclesiastical Court circles after the autocratic and warlike grand-vizir’s demise.