Babad Dalem is a historical account from Bali, Indonesia, which exists in a large number of versions of varying length.
The forces of Gajah Mada, the chief minister (patih) of Majapahit, invade Bali and subjugate the island (an event dated in 1343 in the Javanese poem Nagarakrtagama[3]).
A Javanese nobleman called Sri Aji Kresna Kepakisan, the grandson of a Brahmin, is installed as the vassal ruler of Bali, with his residence in Samprangan in the Gianyar regency.
The older versions contain few calendrical dates, and the babad genre seems more concerned with origins than with the exact chronology of events.
Comparisons with external (in particular Dutch and Javanese) historical materials suggest that important aspects of the history of Gelgel have been left out or altered in the Babad Dalem.