RORO JONGRANG (Orientation, Complication,Resolution) Bahasa Inggris
RORO JONGRANG
Orientation
Roro Jonggrang was the daughter of
King Prabu Baka, who ruled over the ancient Javanese kingdom of Prambanan. The
king was killed in a fierce battle by the minister of the King of Pengging, who
fought with a magic weapon called ‘Bandung’. For this reason, he was known as
‘Bandung Bandawasa’.
Complication
Not long afterwards, Bandung
Bandawasa decided to marry Princess Roro Jonggrang., the daughter of his
victim. But she had no desire to marry the murderer of her father, so she
sought the advice of the Patih.
The Patih made a wise suggestion.
Bandung would have to build a thousand temples and two deep weels. If he
managed to complete all this in the course of one night, he could marry the
princess. Bandung knew two people possessing magic powers who promised to help
him. one was his father, “Damarmaya”, and the other was mighty King of
Pengging. A date was fixed and in the evening, Bandung’s followers began their
giant construction job. Five hundred temples were completed by midnight.
Roro Jonggrang sent a man to watch
the progress of Bandung’s work and by four o’clock in the morning he saw that
nine hundred and ninety five temples were already built and to deep wells
nearly finished. The whole palace was filled with sadness, because the Princess
would have to marry the man who had murdered her father.
Again the Patih had an idea. He woke
up all the young girls and ordered them to pond rice at once. When the workers
heard the pounding of rice and smelt the flowers, which were the signs of dawn
they stopped their work. Bandung Bandawasa was glad to see the temples before
him and counted them himself. But to his surprise, there were only 999 temples.
Resolution
He soon learned the reason of his
failure and became very angry. Roro JOnggrang herself was changed into a
statue, which stands in the great inner hall of the largest temple and is now
know as, “The Temple of Roro Jonggrang’.
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