The Mystery Of Kedulan Temple
Posted on March 16th, 2009 in favorite places The Mystery Of Kedulan Temple
The Mystery Of Kedulan Temple – Several ornaments that decorated this temple are able to enjoy of the beauty even, even the temple-self still in reconstructing process. For example, the dragon relief that situated under of Yoni that estimates fill the main room of main temple. This dragon figure is different with another dragon that decorated Yoni in the other temple in Mid Java, because the dragon that shows in this relief has jaw. There any the God relief at several places on the temple wall, roots decoration, Roset and relief of Batik motif.
Haryono, the ancient official staff said that there are so difficult to re-arrange the temple that ruins. Thousand stones should verify that has aim to make the temple stand up again. In order to verify the stones, it not has the direction about it. Against the difficulties problem like that, a worker in that reconstruction is able to verify one stone only in a week. You can imagine just like arrange a giant puzzle.
If you entering the information room beside the digging location, you can see the panning estimation of Kedulan temple. From estimation result, the main temple has height about 8 meters, divides several part such as foot part, body and proof. The temple’ body consists of 10 layers of stones with height about 2.4 meter, has several alcove that fill with Ganesha statue (Siva’s son), Agastya, Durga (Siva’s wife), Nandaka and Nandiswara (the Durga’s Vehicle) .this temple also has the little room that estimates for special person. The proof of the temple consists of 13 layers of the andesite stone. From the tezt above that can estimates that overall of the architecture of this temple are similar with Sambisari temple.
Still at the same room, here you can see the bowl ruins that decorated with goods, which is estimates is use for worship ritual in this temple. That is not all, there any woods that come from the trees that growth while this temple is established. Haryono also story about something that related with this trees. In one day, one of the ruins wood from this tree will bring by someone for made a craft, but it returned because the people who will bring it have the accidents.
Several another photos that show the process during digging are also can you see here. There any God statue that has bronze material and the photos of Pananggaran and Sumudul inscription that found on 2003. On the wall of the room, there has the description about the land surface when the temple stones founded. That is not all, the photo that show the digging process for years.
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