Behind its beauty, The Prambanan Temple, a Hindu temple lies in Central Java - Indonesia has its own never lasting legend. That’s the legend about a beautiful princess named Roro Jonggrang, the daughter of King Boko.According to the legend, Roro Jonggrang dared to refuse a proposal from Bandung Bondowoso, a Prince who fell in love with her. She refused Bandung Bondowoso’s desire for marry her, because he had killed her father and ruled her kingdom. Bandung Bondowoso then forced her, when finally Roro Jonggrang agreed, but she posed one impossible condition: Bandung Bondowoso must build her a temple with a thousand statues in only one-night time. the prambanan temple.
In order to actualize these temples, Bandung Bondowoso entered into meditation and called on a multitude of demons to help him. He, helped by the supernatural beings, then succeeded in building 999 statues. the prambanan temple.
Knowing that the temple with 1,000 statues she required was about to complete, as she didn’t love the prince, Roro Jonggrang had her idea to defeat Bandung’s effort. The princess ordered the women of the village to begin pounding rice and set a fire in the east of the temple to draw the wool over eyes of the prince and the demons. This trick succeeded. The demons assumed that morning had broken. They then fled back into the ground, and the thousandth statue was finally unfinished.
When Bandung Bondowoso knew that he had already been tricked, he got angry with Roro Jonggrang. He then cursed Jonggrang to be the thousandth statue, the most beautiful statue among the 1,000 ones. the prambanan temple.
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