Jabung, Sudut, Kedaton
This temple is situated 5 km after the town of Kraksaan, 500 m right of the road before arriving to Jabung. A panel indicates where it is necessary to turn.
It is a beautiful red brick building, of which the cylindrical form makes more think of a stupa than a temple.
This
structure of 16 m in height, makes up of a very high base of
cruciform plan, bevelled in one side by a flight of steps making
it possible to reach the body itself of the building (we cannot
go up).
This
trunk is circular with four high windows dominated by heads of Kala
. The window facing the staircase is open giving
access to a square cella.
In
addition to the heads of Kala , a decoration
made mainly of friezes and edgings surround the building. One
finds, moreover, some characters represented in escutcheons.
It
is thought that Candi Jabung is the funerary
temple of a Mojopahit princess.
Candi Sudut is visible 100 m of Candi Jabung.
It
is one of the four buildings - the only remainder - marking the
angles of the site of origin. Sudut means
precisely: sanctuary of angle.
This temple, dated from 1370, is in the village of Santonorejo, 5 km above Tiris, on the slopes of the Gunung Argopuro , and to approximately 40 km in the south of Kraksaan.
To reach this temple is a true "way of the cross", because the last 15 kilometers of road are completely smashed and one runs 10 km/h maxi.
One
is however rewarded for the effort, because even if there remains
nothing any more but the base, the many decorations this temple
offers to us, are really superb.
Indeed,
all around the wall forming the basement of the building, spread
out, in frameworks clearly marked, 31 tables which count us
stages of history of the bird Garuda ( Garudadeya ),
which here is not the mounting of the god Vishnu , but is the
true hero with his own legend.
One
sees there also some extracts from the saga of Arjuna ( Arjunawihara
, the marriage of Arjuna, a major kakawin
poem written by M'pu Kauwa about 1030).
