Kidal and Jago Temple

KIDAL TEMPLE, this temple lies about 7 Km South West of Tumpang considered as the most beautiful temple left by the Singosari Dynasty. It was built in 1260 as a burial shrine for the King Anusapati, the second king of Singosari who died in 1248. This 12.5 m tall temple furnished with a well-carved relief of Garudaleya story taken from the Adiparwa book. The relief was carved starting from the left side of the temple and this is different from most temples, which are carved from the right. The steps of this temple are guarded by two Kala Makara (dragon) the same shaper that we can find in Kraton Yogyakarta.

Jajaghu or Jago Temple was constructed in 1275 - 1300 AD. It is believed as the burial place of King Wisnuwardhana's ashes, the fourth king of Singosari Kingdom. It lies at the village of Jago, Tumpang Sub-district, 22 km to the East of Malang.

Kendedes

This is the famous Prajnaparamita statue, known as the Goddess Of Transcendent Wisdom. All over the world people have considered this statue as one of the most beautiful expressions of Javanese art. The statue got well-known in 1818, when the Dutch D. Monnereau pointed at the statue named by the Javanese Putri Dedes (Princess Dedes), the first Queen of Singosari. About 1844 the statue got transported to Holland, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden. Januar 1978 the statue got returned to Indonesia by the Dutch (after Prajnaparamita drew up in duplicate) and put in the Museum National, Jakarta. Nobody knows the exact stories about Putri Ken Dedes and, we only can read some out of the Chronicle Pararaton by "The myth of Ken Angrok and Putri Ken Dedes".

Singhasari Temple

Singhasari was a kingdom located in east Java between the 1222 and the 1292. It was founded by Ken Arok, whose story is a popular children's tale in Central and East Java. Ken Arok was an orphan who grew up in Kediri and was a cunning thief. His reputation was such that Kertajaya the King of Kediri ordered ruler of Tumapel, Tunggul Ametung to arrest Ken Arok. Tunggul Ametung had a beautiful wife, Ken Dedes which he took by force. Ken Arok happened upon her by chance, and he had the premonition that he had to have her as his wife at all costs. To accomplish this, Ken Arok went to a famous swordsmith Mpu Gandring and asked him to make him a sacred Kris to use for this mission. The process of making a sacred sword involved performing rituls and took longer than Ken Arok had the patience for. In his anger he took the unfinished sword from Mpu Gandring and killed him with it. With his last breath, Mpu Gandring cursed Ken Arok and the next 7 generations of his descendants to death by the same sword. Ken Arok managed to kill Tunggul Ametung and blamed another petty thief for the murder. He presented himself as a jagoan -- a champion of the people -- took Ken Dedes as his wife and made himself ruler of Tumapel. At this time Ken Dedes was pregnant with Tunggul Ametung's child. The ambition of Ken Arok did not stopped in Tumapel. In 1222, at Ganter battle, He conquered the Kediri kingdom and declared himself as the ruler of Singhasari. The Kediri kingdom itself became a fief under the kingdom of Singhasari. Ken Arok was the first king of Singhasari, and true to the curse was killed by his son in law, Anusapati, using the keris of Mpu Gandring. The same tragedy happen to Anusapati as he was killed by the same keris. He was killed by Panji Tohjaya, son of Ken Arok and his concubine Ken Umang.

 

Dwarapala

The giant guardian sculpture which put at the entrance gate of an empire in ancient Javanese kingdoms. Since these Dwarapala they're always a couple or 2 companions of giants] situated nearby Candi Singosari, the archelogist decided, this is the main gate to enter the Singhasari Empire.