HISTORY PRAMBANAN

HISTORY PRAMBANAN

Around the year 930-an, the capital of the kingdom moved to East Java by Mpu Sindok, who founded isyana dynasty. Causes move the center of power is not known for certain. But very likely caused by the great eruption of Mount Merapi which stands about 20 kilometers north of the temple of Prambanan. Other possible causes of war and power struggles. After moving the capital, Prambanan temple began neglected and not maintained, so that this temple slowly begin to deteriorate and crumble.Prambanan abandoned
The temple building totally collapsed allegedly due to severe earthquakes in the 16th century. Although no longer the center of religious and worship of Hindus, the temple is still known and unknown by the people who inhabit villages around Java. The temples and statues of Durga in the main building of the temple inspires the Javanese folklore legend Jonggrang Rara. After the split of the Sultanate of Mataram in 1755, the ruins of the temple and the nearby river Opak be a sign of demarcation between the Sultanate of Yogyakarta and Surakarta (Solo).
Prambanan is the largest Hindu temple and the grandest ever built in the ancient Javanese royal Hindu temple construction was started by Rakai Pikatan as a rival Buddhist temple Borobudur and Sewu temple is located not far from Prambanan. Some historians have long suspected that the construction of grand Hindu temple to mark the return to power of Sanjaya family on Java, this is related to the theory of the house of different twins competing beliefs; namely Sanjaya dynasty Hindu and Buddhist Sailendra dynasty. Surely, with the construction of this temple indicate that Hinduism Saiwa back the support of the royal family, after the Sailendra dynasty tend to be more supportive of Mahayana Buddha. This marked the kingdom Medang switch focus their religious support, from Mahayana Buddhism to the cult of Shiva.
The building was first built around 850 AD by Rakai Pikatan and continually refined and expanded by King Lokapala and king Balitung Maha Sambu. Based on the inscriptions Siwagrha from the year 856 AD, the sacred building was built to honor the god Shiva, and the original name of the building is in Sanskrit is Siwagrha (Sanskrit: Shiva-grha which means: 'Home Siwa') or Siwalaya (Sanskrit: Shiva-laya which means: 'Realm of Shiva' or 'Natural Shiva'). [4] In this inscription mentioning that during the construction of the temple Siwagrha underway, do public work also changes in water flow to move the flow of the river near this temple. River in question is Opak river that flows from north to south along the western side of the temple complex of Prambanan. Historians suspect that the original of this river curving turn towards the east, and are considered too close to the temple so that erosion of the river could endanger the construction of the temple. Water system project is done by creating a new river that cuts spatula curved river with the north-south axis along the west wall outside the temple complex. Ask former river channel then backfilled to provide broader land for the construction of a row of ancillary temple (temple temple guardian or chaperone).
Some archaeologists believe that the Shiva statue in Garbhagriha (main room) in the Shiva temple as the main temple is a statue of the king Balitung embodiment, as the statue of his posthumous pedharmaan. [5] Prambanan name, derived from the name of the village where the temple stands is thought to be a change in name of the Java language dialect "Para Brahman," which may refer to the heyday of the temple was formerly filled by the brahmins.
This building complex periodically continue to be refined by the kings of Mataram Medang the next, like a king Daksha and Tulodong, and expanded with the building of hundreds of additional temples around the main temple. Because the splendor of this temple, Prambanan temple serves as a grand temple Mataram Kingdom, the venue of various important royal ceremonies. At the height of its glory, historians suspect that hundreds brahmin priest and his disciples gathered and inhabit the outer court of the temple to study the Vedas and implement various Hindu rituals and ceremonies. While the center of Mataram kingdom or empire palace presumably located somewhere near Prambanan in Kewu Plain.

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