Kawali

Kawali, in the hills of what is now Ciamis in West Java, was the capital of the Sunda Kingdom in its Galuh period, from the early fourteenth to the late fifteenth century. It replaced an older Galuh seat further southeast near the Ci Tanduy river. The Carita Parahyangan chronicle calls the palace here Surawisesa and describes it as fortified with walls and moats.

King Maharaja Lingga Buana ruled from Kawali. In 1357 he died with his daughter, a princess, at the battle of Bubat, at the Majapahit capital in east Java. His surviving son Niskala Wastu Kancana grew up to rule Sunda from Kawali, and the chronicle gives him a reign of 104 years, from 1371 to 1475. Six stones in Old Sundanese language and script stand at Astana Gede in Kawali. The longest is thought to commemorate Wastu Kancana's greatness and wishes the land well. Other stones speak of a linga. Sri Baduga Maharaja moved the royal centre to Pakuan Pajajaran in 1482, and Kawali ceased to be a capital.

The later city of Tasikmalaya lies here.