The brother's temple

The temple Abang was the Hindu temple that was was not far from the Banyunibo Temple and the Barong Temple, that is in the village CandiAbang, the Jogotirto district, the Berbah subdistrict, Sleman, Yogyakarta, was not far from the Adisucipto airport. This temple was built in around the 9th and 10th age at the time of the royal time Mataram Kuno. The temple that have the shape of like this pyramid was named the Temple Abang because of being made from coloured bricks red (the brother in the Javanese language), and it was estimated had the age that was younger than Hindu temples other.The form of this temple took the form of the quadrangle with the measurement 36 m. x 34 metre, now often was overgrown the field so as from far visible was similar like the pile of the land or the small hill. When the first time being found, in this temple was gotten the statue and the foundation yoni the symbol of the god Siwa had the shape of the octagon (does not have the shape of the quadrangle, like usually) with the measuring side 15 cm. Several people regarded the Temple Abang was the place of the storage of treasure in ancient the time, because of that often was damaged and dug up by the person was not responsible (in November 2002, for example) that looked for the legacy wealth of the history and the valuable thing.Really was difficult to imagine the form in fact from this temple, all this part of the temple body, has been closed with grass even his condition far did not differ from the pile of grassland that often was encountered in Padang-golf course. From various literature that succeeded in being found by me from the book but also the search for related sites in the internet, explained that the form of this temple was to resemble the pyramid with the foundation 36x34 metre and high that to now still could not be estimated. This temple middle took the form of the well and was gotten the ladder entered was made from the white stone (limestone). Several the stone andesit also was found around the temple that still could not be known clearly would his function.One of the literature (marginal sites, Enrique Indonesia 2002) explained that is found yoni to this location. A finding that could be made the foundation of the reference that the Temple Abang this the big possibility was the legacy of the religion hindu. Yoni that was met in this temple had the shape of the octagon with each one of his sides measuring 15 cm. However other literature (Kompas, on November 30 2002) mentioned that the object had the shape of this octagon was the statue foundation, not yoni. The form of this statue foundation really unique considering umu him the statue foundation have the shape of round or rectangular. Unfortunately this statue foundation was damaged by people who were not responsible around the middle in November 2002, with kemugkinan the reason happened search efforts for treasure to this location. From isue that had circled, the location of the Temple Abang this was the place of the storage of treasure, aside from whether indeed took the form of treasure beneran, or the meaning of treasure as the heirloom or piandel (the belief).

Definitely him, when I visited kelokasi this in the trip went home lebaran 2005 then, not there is again yoni and the statue foundation like that dijelakan by this literature. Red bricks that were the main material the framer of the temple was covered grass that grew in a fertile manner. The temple middle also already did not resemble again the form of the well, but more was similar galian the land not have the shape of. Only the composition of the wall of the temple of the framer's bricks could be still being seen around grass roots or scrub. An ironic condition and again inappropriate by the name of him where the brother's significant temple the red temple because of waking up from red bricks, more appropriate was mentioned with the temple ijo because luxuriant and fertile him grass that grew in the Temple Abang this.

The condition for the site of the Temple Abang at first glance only was a pile of the land menyeruapai the small hill, but from results of the test split (the excavation) was known inside was gotten the remnants – structure of the temple building that was made from the red bricks material. Brhubung the test split as his efforts of the characteristics research was very limited so as still could not reveal tinggalan in the site of the Temple Abang. For the time being the uniqueness of the Temple Abang as the legacy from the classic period (the time of Hindu – Buddha) because the building materials was made from red bricks, so as to be one – his one the Sleman Regency wealth.

The Arkeologis data that succeeded in being revealed from the test activity split that the Temple Abang consisted of one building (the single building), with one page that is the first page that was estimated as the main page had the long measurement 65 metre and wide 64 metre. By the building according to the report that was contained by ROD 1915 was named that in the Temple Abang had been found by one lingga and the Buddhist statue. Lingga was the symbol of the god Siwa, the tallest god in the Hindu religion. If lingga this was true – true in a sense actually (not lingga the marker) and the two findings true was linked with the Temple Abang, but did not yet become the guarantee that the Temple Abang was Siwa – Buddha because still was needed by the further research. Something that was interesting that the site of the Temple Abang also had been found the short inscription during 1932. This inscription contained about pertanggalan with the year figure 794 S or 872 AD, but pertanggalan this was not yet used as pertanggalan the founding year of the Temple Abang.

An arrival there, I must explain to Alpat that the pile of the hill that was seen big in front of us was the temple that was meant. You will not find the intact temple building or the temple that collapsed here. From literature that was found by me in the internet, the form of this temple was to resemble the pyramid with the foundation 36x34 metre and high that to now still could not be estimated. This temple middle took the form of the well and was gotten the ladder entered was made from the white stone (limestone). Several the stone andesit also was found around the temple that still could not be known clearly would his function. Some literature had also named the discovery yoni in this site, that gave the assumption that this temple was the Hindu temple.This temple was acknowledged as the Temple Abang because this temple was made from red bricks, not the stone andesit like temples generally. Because the characteristics of red bricks that were easy again became the land, then in the period hundreds of temple years again became the pile of the land. Several people believe in in this temple was kept treasure. Because of this during 2002 the excavation in this temple that destroyed statues had happened around. This temple was surrounded by the forest and the valley. In the forest also was gotten a stone that according to children who were met by us was named the umbrella stone. Same including the legacy of the past or not but was the person that memadu the love in the site of this temple.

I was surprised why did not have the post BP3 in this temple. Indeed this temple was allowed just like that. Then, how if the case of the excavation to look for treasure was repeated again? According to me really good if having the nurse, a kind juru the key for this site. Possibly the temple building that a long time ago grand already could not again to be reconstructed, but with the condition for the temple that like this minimal was guarded by us so that in the future in afterwards his condition day does not far change from today.