Origin of Prambanan Temple Legend (Full Discussion)

Origin of the Legend of Prambanan Temple (Full Discussion) – Indonesia is a country that has a lot of islands, a lot of diversity of animals and plants and also has many ethnic groups and cultures.

Origin of the Legend of Prambanan Temple (Full Discussion)

There are many ethnic groups and cultures, each region has a lot of stories or fairy tales which has been passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors and elders in the area that. These stories and fairy tales become a characteristic of an area where we live today.

An example of folklore in the past is the story of the Prambanan temple on the island of Java. This story is interesting to retell. To be able to understand the story of the origin of the Prambanan temple, it will be explained as follows:

The legend of Prambanan temple

The legend of this Prambanan temple starts from a folklore that in ancient times there was a king named Raja Boko. Raja Boko is a giant who lives and lives in a village called Prambanan. King Boko already has a very beautiful daughter, Roro Jongrang.

One day a knight came from Pengging named Bandung Bondowoso. In a battle the knight can defeat King Boko. After defeating Raja Boko, Bandung Bondowoso did not want to linger to be able to propose to the daughter of Roro Jongrang and he immediately proposed to her. The application submitted to Roro Jonggrang was accepted, but the princess asked for requirements that the Bandung Bondowoso knights had to fulfill.

The desire or condition in question is that Bandung Bondowoso must build 1000 temples which must be completed in just one night. Of course, Bandung Bondowoso fulfilled these conditions and immediately rushed to build the temple. With the help of spirits, the temple in question has almost been completed. But when the number of temples that were built almost reached a thousand, Roro Jongrang asked the residents to be able to beat the mortar which marked the day when the morning started and the rooster crowed.

Statue of Roro Jongrang

After the construction of the 999th temple, Bandung Bondowoso was forced to stop because it was already early in the morning. After finishing work and missing one statue, Bnadung Bondowoso realized that he had been tricked by Roro Jongrang. Roro Jongrang was cunning and made Bandung angry and cursed Roro Jongrang to become a stone to make himself the thousandth temple.

After the words came out of Bandung Bondowoso's mouth, Roro Jongrang's body turned to stone and finally became a statue. After Roro Jongrang became a statue, his wish came true, namely to build a thousand temples.

The story above is a folk tale that is told from generation to generation to the younger generation in order to understand the culture that exists in the area. But this story did not happen because there are only 250 temples in Prambanan Temple. There is a statue of Batari Durga Mahisa Suramardhani inside the Shiva Temple. This statue is called by the local community as the incarnation of Roro Jongrang who turned to stone.

The Kalasan written there are in the form of Sanskrit poetry and a combination of Pranagari letters. The poem explains that the Buddhist monks asked the king of Panangkaraya for permission to come to the holy place to worship the Goddess Tara. Then the King agreed and gave the village of Kalasan to the monks. According to belief, Tara is the god of compassion and is the protector of Buddhists.

That's the explanation about Origin of the Legend of Prambanan Temple (Full Discussion) which has been explained by About Knowledge. Folklore is indeed very interesting and must continue to be spread and passed on to posterity so that the story can be maintained. Hope it's useful