This version of the chronicle of Gresik, a port polity in East Java, discusses several events relarting to the saintly Giri genealogy and the expansionism of the Mataram Sultanate in the seventeenth century.
Sindujoyo was of the disciples of the legendary Javanese Islamic scholar and ruler Sunan Prapen. This manuscript turns Sindujoyo into a legendary warrior who roamed through Java from battle to battle half a century after Sunan Prapen’s death. Facing armies, winning cockfights, and riding crocodi...
