Majapahit

Vijaya, managed to flee with some of his troops to a village called

Majapahit (literally, bitter fruit) on the river Brantas.
The Mongol expedition designed to castigate Kertanagara thus had the
unintended result of placing his legitimate heir on the throne. Vijaya
himself was destined to be the founder of a great empire.
Out of the sentimental attachment for the village that had given him
shelter and refuge in the days of his erstwhile advesity, he made Majapahit
his capital and adopted the same name for his dynasty.
The Majapahit empire became, in the course of time, the greatest ever of
all the states in insular Southeast Asia, claiming political control over most
of the archipelago, the only indigenous power to do so in the pre-Dutch
history of the region.
Hayam Wuruk With Gajah Madas aid, he became the greatest king
of the Majapahit dynasty, and he continued Gajah Madas work after the
latters death in 1364.
Gajah Mada powerful military leader and mahapatih or prime
minister of the Majapahit Empire, credited with bringing the empire
to its peak of glory (from wikipedia)
Gajah Mada united the archipelago, not through a confederate alliance as
Kertanagara had tried but through direct conquest. The celebrated
Javanese epic Nagarkertagama perhaps gives him more credir than was
due as an empire-builder.
Thus it speaks of the Majapahit hegemony extending not only over the
entire archipelago (except western Sunda) but also over Champa,
Thailand, and Cambodia, comparing its domain with Chinas.
The period politically dominated by Gajah Mada and King Rajasanagara
marked the golden age of Javanese history, known for literary and cultural
efflorescence.
The 14th century also brought major construction, including of many
religious edifices dedicated to the syncretic cult of Shiva-Buddhism, noted
for their bas-reliefs depicting scenes from The Ramayana and The
Krishmayana.
slowly liquidated by the advance of Islam in the first quarter of the
sixteenth century.
The Majapahit was the last great Hindu kingdom of Southeast Asia.
After the establishment of Malacca in 1402, the trader-rules of many small

states converted to Islam in the hope of better promoting their trade

prospects, thereby severing their ties with Hindu Majapahit.
Source: SarDesai, D. R. (1989). Southeast Asia, past & present (6th ed.).
Boulder, CO: Westview Press.