Majapahit's Lost Fleet: The Battle of Bubat Reexamined

In this episode, Lucas and Luna revisit the infamous Battle of Bubat (1357) — a tragedy that shattered Majapahit's alliance with the Sunda Kingdom and haunted the empire for decades. But what if everything we think we know about Bubat is wrong? Lucas unpacks the conflicting accounts from the Pararaton, the Negarakertagama, and Sundanese oral traditions. He examines the political motivations of Gajah Mada, the role of Princess Dyah Pitaloka, and how the battle became a cultural flashpoint that still resonates in Indonesian identity today. The conversation also explores how historians have wrestled with the scarcity of reliable sources, the biases of Javanese court chronicles, and the possibility that the 'mass suicide' of Sundanese nobles was a later romanticization. This is a nuanced look at how history is written, rewritten, and sometimes weaponized. #Majapahit #BattleOfBubat #GajahMada #DyahPitaloka #Sunda #Pararaton #Negarakertagama #SundaKingdom #Pasisir #Bubat #JavaneseHistory #IndonesianHistory #MpuPrapanca #OralTradition #HistoricalControversy #PalapaOath #FexingoHistory #History Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo