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Raden Wijaya was crowned on 10 November 1293, founding Majapahit, a Hindu Buddhist empire based on Java that would become the last and largest state of its kind in Southeast Asian history. Its founding gave the archipelago's mixed Hindu and Buddhist religious tradition a political centre it had not had on this scale before.
Under Queen Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi, her son Hayam Wuruk and Prime Minister Gajah Mada, the empire reached its territorial peak in the mid fourteenth century. The 1365 court chronicle Nagarakretagama records roughly 98 tributary states under Majapahit's influence, stretching from Sumatra to New Guinea, the widest reach Hindu Buddhist political authority ever achieved anywhere in the Indonesian archipelago.
What this changed for Hinduism and Buddhism's spread in the region was the creation of a single dominant power that carried both traditions, fused together in one court's own religious life, across a distance spanning nearly the length of the archipelago. Majapahit's reach under Hayam Wuruk and Gajah Mada marked the furthest extent Hindu Buddhist authority would ever hold in Indonesia, a peak the empire itself would not sustain much beyond their own generation.