Prabu Siliwangi is the paramount culture hero of the Sundanese, the idealized great king of Pakuan Pajajaran around whom the pantun repertoire and later legend revolve. Historians identify him with Sri Baduga Maharaja, also called Jayadewata, who ruled the Sunda kingdom from 1482 to 1521 and is commemorated in the Batutulis inscription at Bogor; his popular name means 'successor of Wangi', linking him to Prabu Wangi, the king who died at Bubat. In legend he is the father of pantun heroes such as Mundinglaya di Kusumah, and after the fall of Pajajaran to the Islamic powers of Banten and Cirebon he is said not to have died but to have withdrawn into the southern forests, ngahiyang, vanishing from the visible world; he and his loyal followers are believed to live on as tigers, the maung of Pajajaran, guardians who may still appear to their descendants. Robert Wessing has analysed this tiger tradition as a mythic resolution of the passage from the old Hindu-Sundanese order to Islam, while the name Siliwangi remains a byword for Sundanese identity.