Samprangan

Samprangan lies in eastern Bali near Bedulu, an older royal centre. Balinese chronicles place here the first court of a dynasty established after Majapahit's conquest of the island. The dynasty later ruled from Gelgel, closer to the southern coast, where its ancestral shrine and the temple of Pura Dasar stood within the royal landscape.

According to the Babad Dalem, Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan was installed at Samprangan in the age of Majapahit's minister Gajah Mada. His eldest son inherited the court, but the youngest, Dalem Ketut, founded a new seat at Gelgel. The chronicle relates that Ketut received sacred heirlooms from Hayam Wuruk of Majapahit. Its chronology is difficult, yet the story expresses the Balinese court's claim to a Javanese royal inheritance. Gelgel became the dominant kingdom on Bali from the early sixteenth century until its fall in 1686; its rulers also had Javanese Muslim retainers, who built a mosque at the royal centre.

The later city of Denpasar lies here.