Rakai Pikatan

Regnal name
	Rakai Pikatan Dyah Saladu; (Wanua Tengah III inscription); ; ; Sang Jātiningrat; (Shivagrha inscription)

Rakai Pikatan
Rakai Pikatan
Sang Prabhu Jātiningrat
Great King of Mataram
Reign	847 – 855
Predecessor	Samaratungga
Successor	Rakai Kayuwangi Dyah Lokapāla
Born	Salaḍū
Spouse	Pramodhawardhani
Regnal name
Regnal name
	Rakai Pikatan Dyah Saladu; (Wanua Tengah III inscription); ; ; Sang Jātiningrat; (Shivagrha inscription)
House	Sanjaya
Religion	Shivaist Hinduism

Salaḍū, Lord of Pikatan (reigned 847–855) was a king of the Mataram Kingdom in Central Java who built the Prambanan temple, dedicated to Shiva. He is commonly referred to as Rakai Pikatan, which is a title meaning "Lord of Pikatan". His personal name was dyah Salaḍū, where dyah is a personal article indicating noble status.

Salaḍū was a Shivaite Hindu. According to the Wanua Tengah III inscription, Salaḍū was responsible for dissolving a benefice (sīma) that had previously been dedicated to a Buddhist monastery in Pikatan. He is recorded in the Shivagrha inscription as having married a daughter of another religion. This is most likely Pramodhawardhani, the Mahayana Buddhist daughter of Samaratungga, a previous king of Java belonging to the Shailendra dynasty.

The circumstances of Salaḍū's reign are highly conjectural, due to the limited amount of primary source material available. George Coedès hypothesised that Salaḍū fought his brother-in-law Balaputra, forcing him to move to Srivijaya in 856.^[1]^: 108 Other interpretations based on the Kayumwungan inscription put Balaputra as Pramodhawardhani's uncle rather than her brother as inscriptions only list Pramodhawardhani as a child of Samaratungga. In this hypothetical scenario, Balaputra went to Srivijaya not because of force but because he had no claim as a brother of the monarch.

According to the interpretation of Loro Jonggrang legend, Pramodhawardhani's likeness was the model for Durga's image in the Prambanan temple.

References

^ Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed.). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.

Marwati Poesponegoro & Nugroho Notosusanto. 1990. Sejarah Nasional Indonesia Jilid II. Jakarta: Balai Pustaka.
George Coedès. 1968. The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. Translated by Susan Brown Cowing. Canberra: Australian National University Press.

Preceded by Samaratungga	Monarch of Mataram Kingdom 847—855	Succeeded by Dyah Lokapala

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[Coedes-1] Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed.). The Indianized States of Southeast Asia. trans.Susan Brown Cowing. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-0368-1.

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