Located at 3 km in the south of Prambanam, 200 m of altitude on a plateau, it is an immense complex of 250 000 m 2 . Built to the medium of the 8th century, a stele indicates that the site named Abhayagiri wihara, which could be translated by: the dormitory of the serene mountain. It is thus about a place where the buddhist monks lived. Later, the site will be known under the name of Kraton Ratu Boko, i.e.: the palace (kraton) of the king (ratu) of the herons (boko), because much of birds come here attracted by the many points of water.
It is a strengthened palace, the only one which one knows, with a monastery, a track of dance, and hermitages builds at the end of the 9th C. He was attended by both Hindu priests and Buddhist monks. A stone inscription found here indicates that a Sailendra princess who reigned in this time there, was related to a dynasty from Ceylon and which monks from Sri Lanka lived here. Some say that there was the capital of Sailendra. As for that of Sanjaya, the twenty kilos of gold jewels found in 1991 5 km from there, in Wonoboyo, make said that it was perhaps there.
These last years, a large effort was made for the rehabilitation of the site which allows today, in spite of a duty of US$ 5, to make a pleasant ballade.
The principal door.
The hall of royal audience.
Small temples of the royal familie.
Royal baths and the place of the princesses.
Temples of the princesses (at the bottom).
Crematorium.
Candi Prambanam
seen from Ratu Boko.
