Getting To Know The Three Main Temples Of Prambanan Temple

YOGYAKARTA Prambanan Temple is a candi hindu which is located in Kalasan District, Sleman, Yogyakarta. The temple is one of the largest in Indonesia. One of the highlights of the historic building is the large number of small temples that surround the three main temples. This article will discuss the three main temples of Prambanan Temple called Trimurti.

Reporting from the Prambanan browser published by PT Taman Wisata Candi (TWC), Prambanan Temple is a UNESCO world cultural heritage. Currently, the temple is the largest Hindu temple in Southeast Asia.

Prambanan Temple Complex has 3 pages with concentric or musat arrangement. The most sacred page is page I in the center (central). On the page there are 16 temples.

Then on page II there are as many as 224 temples, on page III no single temple was found. If added up, the total number of temples that can be found is 240 pieces.

On the official website of Slemankab.go.id, it is explained that Prambanan Temple has 3 main temples located on the main page, namely Wisnu Temple (Dewa Maintenance), Brahma (Dewa Dewa Creator), and Siwa (Dewa Destroyer). The three temples symbolize Trimurti which is known in Hinduism.

Wisnu, Brahma, and Siwa Temples face the East together. Each of these temples has one companion temple with different names, namely Nandini for Siwa Temple, Angsang for Brahma Temple, and Garuda for Wisnu Temple. Here's the explanation.

Siwa Temple is the largest temple in the Prambanan complex. The temple has a height of about 47.6 meters with a width of 36 meters, and its position is in the middle. This is related to the position of Siwa as the supreme god in Hinduism teachings. Not only big and high, Siwa Temple is also known to have 5 booths facing the four corners of the wind.

This temple is surrounded by a gallery aisle with reliefs that contain the story of Ramayana. The story tells the kidnapping of the goddess Shinta, Rama's wife, by Rahwana who is the commander of the monkey nation.

These two temples flank the Siwa Temple with Brahma Temple position on the south side and Wisnu Temple on the north side. In contrast, the size of Brahma Temple and Wisnu Temple is smaller, namely 20 meters wide and 33 meters high, respectively. In addition, the two temples only have 1 booth in each temple. In the Wisnu Temple booth there is an statue of Wisnu and in Brahma Temple there is an arbitra Brahma.

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