Editing Majapahit (section)

===Javanese chronicles===
Two important chronicle sources are available to historians of Majapahit: ''[[Nagarakretagama|Deśavarṇana]]'' ("Description of Districts") was composed 1365 and the ''[[Pararaton]]'' ("The Monarchs") was compiled sometime between 1481 and 1600.<ref name="Johns1964">{{cite journal |last1=Johns |first1=Anthony H. |title=The Role of Structural Organisation and Myth in Javanese Historiography |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |date=November 1964 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=91–99 |doi=10.2307/2050416|jstor=2050416 |s2cid=163139226 }}</ref> Both of these chronicles survive as 19th- or 20th-century palm-leaf manuscripts. The ''Deśavarṇana'' (also known as ''Nagarakretagama'') is an [[Old Javanese]] [[eulogy]] written during the Majapahit golden age under the reign of [[Hayam Wuruk]], after which some events are covered narratively.<ref name=ricklefs />{{rp| page=18}} Composed by [[Mpu Prapanca]], it provides a primary historical account of Majapahit court during the reign of King [[Hayam Wuruk]], as well as detailed information about the East Javanese countryside and a summary of [[Singhasari]] history. The ''Pararaton'' focuses on [[Ken Arok]], the founder of [[Singhasari]], but includes a number of shorter narrative fragments about the formation of Majapahit.

The Javanese sources incorporate some poetic mythological elements into their historical accounts. This complexity has led to a variety of interpretive approaches. Cornelis Christiaan Berg, a Dutch historian, have considered the entire historical record to be not a record of the past, but a supernatural means by which the future can be determined.{{efn | group=note |1=<ref>C. C. Berg. ''Het rijk van de vijfvoudige Buddha'' (Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, vol. 69, no. 1) Amsterdam: N.V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1962</ref> cited in<ref name=ricklefs />{{rp|pages=18, 311}}}}<ref name ="M Wood"/> Most scholars do not accept this view, as the historical record corresponds in part with Chinese materials that could not have had similar intention. The references to rulers and details of the state structure show no sign of being invented.<ref name=ricklefs/>{{rp | page=18}}

[[File:爪哇趕者伯夷國王皮影戲偶.jpg|thumb|left|[[Wayang|Wayang klithik]] puppet of Raden [[Damarwulan|Damar Wulan]]{{snd}}the hero of Majapahit kingdom]]