Image: Close-up of KITLV 87823 - Isidore van Kinsbergen - Reliefs on Tjandi Panataran near Blitar - Before 1900
Description: Close-up of Krishnayana Reliefs, Candi Penataran temple complex. From the main temple which bears the date of 1269 saka or 1347 CE. Information from Pigeaud's Java in the 14th century: A battle: the party of five men (one lies on the ground, wounded) at the right apparently is trying to recover a Princess who is carried off by a Prince riding on the car drawn by four horses at the left. The attire and the weapons of the fighting men are peculiar. Several pursuers wear a headdress resembling the diadems (jamang) of modern Javanese wayang puppets and a kind of coats of mail as protection of the breast. They are armed with short pikes and round bucklers or with a kind of curved stabbing knives, daggers or small swords with tassels on the hilt, showing not much resemblance to modern Javanese crisses. Most men of the pursued party at the left (probably being of higher standing than the others) have their hair made up in a chignon at the back of their heads. Their weapons are the same as those used by the other party except for the bow of the Prince on the car. The decorated triangle is the car's wooden back-screen and the standing poles are the supports of the roof of plaited bamboo that has been removed for the occasion of the flight. Behind the wounded man's buckler the head and hand of a clownish servant (panakawan) appear. Apparently he is trying to crawl away from danger. Drawn after a stone relief of Candi Panataran, central temple (± 1347 A.D.). Represented are scenes from the Old Javanese romantic poem Kresnayana. The Prince's crown has been left out as belonging more to mythology than to real life...
Title: Close-up of KITLV 87823 - Isidore van Kinsbergen - Reliefs on Tjandi Panataran near Blitar - Before 1900
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Author: Isidore van Kinsbergen
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