The Legend of Prambanan Temple
In the old days of Java Island, in a region called Prambanan, lies
two kingdom. Kingdom of Pengging and Kraton Boko. Pengging kingdom is
gifted with a fertile and get prosperous. The kingdom is lead by a wise
king named Prabu Damar Moyo and has a male son named Raden Bandung
Bondowoso while Kraton Boko is a kingdom that obey under the rules of
Pengging. The Boko king is very cruel, he is strong and tall, like a
giant. The people of Boko always afraid of the kings anger. Although the
king were not handsome, he has a very beautiful daughter called
Princess Roro Jongrang.
One day, the king of Boko wants to rebels
against the Pengging. Lead by the Boko prime minister, the giant race,
Gopolo, the Boko army is prepared to announce the war between Boko and
Pengging. They even raid its own people’s properties to support the
campaign.
Fierce war happens in the borders of the Pengging
teritorial mark. Many victims were falling on both sides and people
Pengging be suffering because of war, many people hunger and poverty.
Knowing his people suffer and have many victims soldiers who died in the
borders, then Prabu Damar Moyo sent his son Raden Bondowoso go to war
against King Boko. The young Bondowoso is able to defeat king Boko.
Seeing the king died, then Prime minister Gupolo escape. Raden Bondowoso
pursue Patih Gupolo to Kraton Boko.
After reaching Kraton Boko,
Patih Gupolo reported on Princess Roro Jonggrang that his father had
been lost in the battlefield, by a knight named Raden Bandung Pengging
Bondowoso. Princess Loro Jonggrang wept, saddened his heart because his
father had been killed on the battlefield. Raden at Kraton Boko
Bondowoso arrived, soom he troubled to see Puteri Raden Bondowoso Loro
Jonggrang beautiful, so he wanted to marry Princess Loro Jonggrang as
his wife.
As the Boko kingdom is lost in the rebels, and o save her
fathers kingdom, the Loro Puteri Raden Jonggrang accept the princes,
with some request. She did not want to marry Bondowoso because he had
killed his father. To reject the proposal Raden Bondowoso, then Princess
Loro Jonggrang have a strategy. The first request, Princess Loro
Jonggrang asked for Jalatunda wells (very deep well) while the second
request, asked for him to make 1000 temples in one night.
Raden
Bandung Bondowoso agreed. Raden Bondowoso Immediately make Jalatunda
wells and after so he called Princess Roro Jonggrang to see the well.
She trick the prince and send him down. She ask Boko’s prime minister to
close the well with heavy rocks so that the prince could not reach the
top of the well. Raden Bondowoso is a tough man, he is also smart. Its
not a longtime before he was able to come out from the wells. He was
very angry to the princess, but soon after meet the princess, he falls
again with the beauty of the princess.
She ask Raden Bondowoso the
second request, to make 1000 temples in 1 night. Bondowoso then command
his workers from genie tribe to help him build the 1000 temple. The 1000
temples are building up, one by one with the help of the genie tribes.
The princess wants to sabotage the building of the temples. She asks her
servants to pound the rice pounding tools and also burns lots of
paddy’s straw.
Because of it, the roosters crowed. The genie take
a lookto the sky and its brighter in the east. The leader of the genie
reported to Bondowoso that they have stopped to make the temple because
the morning has arrived. Princess Roro Jonggrang told to count the
temples and its only 999 temples, not 1000.
So, Bondowoso won’t be
able to marry the princess because he failed to complete the request.
Being deceived and tricked, Raden Bondowoso angry and curse Princess
Roro Jonggrang. “It’s missing one, and you that should fit the numbers”.
The princess is soon turned into a stone statue; it is exist in the
heart of the Prambanan temples until now.
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