The painting is then displayed as the cover of Yamin's book. Yamin then asked the artist Henk Nuntung to make the terracotta-like painting. Based on the look on the piggy bank's face, Yamin interpreted this as the face of Gajah Mada, the unifier of the archipelago.
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He found fragments of terracotta, one of which was a piggy bank in the form of the face of a man with a stocky face and curly hair. One day in the 1940s, Yamin visited Trowulan to see the location of the former Majapahit kingdom. Much of the modern popular depiction of Gajah Mada derives from the imagination of Mohammad Yamin in his 1945 book Gajah Mada: Pahlawan Persatuan Nusantara. Brajanata statue, at the National Museum of Indonesia, No.5136/310d.The depiction of Gajah Mada as statues, left to right:
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Historical accounts of his life, political career, and administration are taken from several sources, mainly Pararaton ("The Book of Kings"), the Nagarakretagama (a Javanese-language epic poem), and inscriptions dating from the late 13th and early 14th century. He is considered an important national hero in modern Indonesia, as well as a symbol of patriotism and national unity.
During his reign, the Hindu epics, including the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, became ingrained in the Javanese culture and worldview through the performing arts of wayang kulit (“leather puppets”). He delivered an oath called Sumpah Palapa, in which he vowed to live an ascetic lifestyle (by not consuming food containing spices) until he had conquered all of the Southeast Asian archipelago of Nusantara for Majapahit. He is credited with bringing the empire to its peak of glory. 1364), also known as Jirnnodhara was, according to Old Javanese manuscripts, poems, and mythology, a powerful military leader and Mahapatih (the approximate equivalent of a modern Prime Minister) of the Javanese empire of Majapahit during the 14th century.