Suhita

{{Short description|Queen of the Majapahit Empire, 1429–1447}} {{Expand language|topic=Bio|langcode=id|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Suhita {{smaller|ꦯꦸꦲꦶꦡ}} | image = Suhita.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Statue of Queen Suhita of Majapahit. | succession = 6th [[Maharaja|Maharani]] of [[Majapahit]] | reign = 1429 – 1447 | predecessor = [[Vikramavardhana]] | successor = [[Kertawijaya]] | house = [[Rajasa dynasty|Rajasa]] | birth_date = before 1406{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} | birth_place = [[Majapahit]] | death_date = 1447 | death_place = [[Majapahit]] | burial_place = Singhajaya | burial_date = | full name = | father = [[Vikramavardhana]] | mother = Kusumawardhani | spouse = Ratnapangkaja, Prince of Kahuripan (d. 1446) | issue = | religion = [[Hinduism]] | regnal name = Bhra Prabhu Stri Dewi Suhita ([[Pararaton]]) | title = Maharani of Majapahit Bhre Daha }}

'''Suhita''' or '''Soheeta''' (died 1447), was a Javanese [[queen regnant]] and the sixth monarch of the [[Majapahit empire]], ruling from 1429 to 1447.

== Early life and succession== She was the daughter of [[Wikramawardhana|King Wikramawardhana]] (formally Bhra Hyang Wisesa),<ref name=Coedes>{{Cite book | last =Cœdès | first = George | authorlink = Georges Coedès | title = The Indianized states of Southeast Asia | publisher = University of Hawaii Press | year = 1968 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iDyJBFTdiwoC | ISBN =9780824803681 }}</ref>{{rp|242}} her predecessor.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Noorduyn |first=J. |date=1978 |title=Majapahit in the Fifteenth Century |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27863183 |journal=Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |volume=134 |issue=2/3 |pages=207–274 |issn=0006-2294}}</ref> Her mother was strongly possibly his principal wife, Kusumawardhani seeing that her name was written without prefixes ''rabi anom'', ''rabi haji'', or ''rabi ksatria'' usually used to refer a son or daughter of a concubine. If so, her parents as well as the king and the queen were first cousins. She had two older brothers: Hyang Wekas ing Sukha, and 2nd Prince of Tumapel also a younger brother: [[Kertawijaya|Dyah Kertawijaya]]. Both of her older brothers died during the reign of Wikramawardhana.

As he died in 1429, [[Pararaton]] reported that the empire was ruled by a queen regnant or ''prabhu stri''. Suhita was the woman suspected. Later, she was succeeded by her younger brother Dyah Kertawijaya by the regnal name King Wijayaparakramawardhana.

== Personal life == Suhita was arranged to marry her close relative, Prince Ratnapangkaja. He was son of Surawardhani and Ranamanggala Dyah Sumirat. He was whose mother was Suhita's paternal aunt, and father was a son of Dyah Sotor, Hayam Wuruk's agnatic half-brother.

== Legend == The [[Damarwulan]] legend is associated with her reign, as it involves a maiden queen (Prabu Kenya in the story), and during Suhita's reign, there was a war with [[Blambangan]] as in the legend.<ref>Claire Holt. ''Art in Indonesia: Continuities and Change''. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1967, p. 276.</ref>

A notable monumental sculpture found in [[Tulungagung]] Regency, [[East Java]] has been identified by some authors as of Suhita. She is dressed in royal attire, including ear pendants, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, and pendants hung from several girdles. In her right hand, she holds a lotus bud, which symbolizes deceased royalty in transformation.<ref>[[Jan Fontein]], R. Soekmono, and Satyawati Suleiman. ''Ancient Indonesian Art of the Central and Eastern Javanese Periods'', New York: Asia Society Inc., 1971, p. 146-147.</ref>

==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel | align = center | boxstyle_1 = background-color: #fcc; | boxstyle_2 = background-color: #fb9; | boxstyle_3 = background-color: #ffc; | boxstyle_4 = background-color: #bfc; | boxstyle_5 = background-color: #9fe; | 1 = Suhita 6th Queen of Majapahit | 2 = [[Wikramawardhana]] Bhra Hyang Wisesa 5th King of Majapahit | 3 = Kusumawardhani 1st Princess of Kabalan 3rd Princess of Lasem | 4 = Singhawardhana 1st Prince of Paguhan | 5 = Rajasaduhiteswari 1st Princess of Pajang | 6 = [[Hayam Wuruk|Rajasanagara]] 4th King of Majapahit | 7 = Paduka Sori | 8 = | 9 = | 10 = Kertawardhana 1st Prince of Tumapel | 11 = [[Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi|Tribhuwanotunggadewi]] 3rd Queen of Majapahit | 12 = Kertawardhana 1st Prince of Tumapel | 13 = Tribhuwanotunggadewi 3rd Queen of Majapahit | 14 = Wijayarajasa Bhra Parameswara of Pamotan 1st Prince of Wengker }}

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{{start box}} {{succession box | before=[[Wikramawardhana]] | title=[[Rajasa Dynasty|Monarch of Majapahit Empire]] | years=1429–1447 | after=[[Kertawijaya]] }} {{end box}}

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