Central Java’s Shailendra kings build the last…
892 CE to 903 CE
Central Java’s Shailendra kings build the last enormous stone Hindu temple complex, Chandi Lara Jonggrang, near the present village of Prambanan in around 900.
The so-called Prambanan complex incorporates two-hundred and-thirty-two separate temples, its towers adorned with rows of small Buddhist stupas in an illustration of how the two great Eastern religions intermingle in Indonesia.
The innermost of the complexes three courts, with an area of 1,184 square feet (110 square meters) contains the main tower shrine, sacred to the god Shiva, flanked by one to Vishnu and one to Brahma.
Facing these are three shrines dedicated to Shiva's bull Nandi and other images of his vehicles.
The main shrines all feature magnificent stone icons.
Bands of superb relief figure sculpture recounting Hindu epics, in a style derived from Borobudur, run around the terraces.
Sixty-two relief panels on the Shiva shrine’s exterior balustrade illustrate the classical dance.
The second concentric court, with an area of 2,390 square feet (222 meters) contains more than two hundred smaller shrines.
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