Culture - Prambanan e

Located 13 km from the town of Klaten, heading west on the road to Yogyakarta and 17 km from Yogyakarta to the east on the road to the town of Klaten / Surakarta, or Prambanan Temple Jonggrang Rara is the largest Hindu temple in Central Java.Administratively, this temple complex is located on the border of Central Java and Yogyakarta. Society calls this temple to temple Larajonggrang name, a label which is actually wrong. Rara in the Java language to describe girls. In folklore, known as Rara Jonggrang Ratubaka Prabhu's daughter whose name is immortalized as the name of the complex heritage buildings in the hills south Saragedug Prambanan.
Told in the story there is a giant named Bandung Bandawasa who have supernatural powers. He wanted to marry the daughter Rara Jonggrang. For that he should make a statue inside the temple with a thousand in one night. Demand is met by the Bandung Bandawasa, but Rara Jonggrang cheating so determined at the temple was not over, not a statue again. Bandung Bandawasa angry and cursed daughter Rara Jonggrang complement the thousandth statue. The statue is believed to be the statue that was in the booth Durgamahisasuramardhini north of Shiva Temple.
Prambanan temple complex has three pages, the first page berdenah square, is the most sacred page because the page there are 3 main temples (Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma), three ancillary temples, 2 temples wedge, 4 temples color, 4 temples angle / pole . The second page also berdenah square, situated lower than the first page. On this page there are 224 pieces of ancillary temples arranged on 4 rows with the proportions of 68, 60, 52, and 44 temples. The composition thus forming a concentric arrangement towards the center of the page.
Decorative arts are very interesting in the Prambanan temple complex are the ornaments in the form of relief statues of gods Lokapala (8 guardian deity of the wind direction) are engraved on the outer wall of the foot of the temple. In addition, there are also stories Ramayanadan Kresnayana relief. Ramayana reliefs carved on the wall of the balustrade of Brahma temple of Shiva in the temple. Kresnayana reliefs carved on the wall of the balustrade of Vishnu. In addition to relief Lokapala god statues, reliefs of the Ramayana, and Kresnayana, decorative arts at the Prambanan Temple complex that stands out is a common decorative motif is called Prambanan, which is an ornament to the shelf in the form of a lion temple is in a sitting position flanked by Kalpataru tree (= tree biodiversity / tree of life). Such ornaments are only available at Prambanan temple, so called Prambanan motifs. Other decorations that adorn many temple outer wall shelf is Kalpataru tree flanked by a pair of heavenly creatures, commonly called Kinara-Kinari (= being a human-headed bird-bodied). Around Prambanan temple can be visited also several Buddhist temples such as Sajiwan temple, temple Granary, temples and temple Plaosan Sewu. During the months of May through October during the full moon in the open plataran Prambanan Ramayana Ballet held starting at 19:00 to 21:00 pm.