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    The document summarizes the legend of the Prambanan temples in Central Java. It describes how the Prambanan kingdom was conquered by the evil King Bandung Bondowoso of Pengging. He fell in love with King Prabu Baka's daughter, Roro Jonggrang, but she agreed to marry him only if he could build 1,000 temples in one night with the help of his genie army. Through tricking the genies into thinking dawn had arrived, Roro Jonggrang ensured the task could not be completed. In retaliation, King Bandung turned Roro Jonggrang into stone, creating the Roro Jonggrang temple.

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    The document summarizes the legend of the Prambanan temples in Central Java. It describes how the Prambanan kingdom was conquered by the evil King Bandung Bondowoso of Pengging. He fell in love with King Prabu Baka's daughter, Roro Jonggrang, but she agreed to marry him only if he could build 1,000 temples in one night with the help of his genie army. Through tricking the genies into thinking dawn had arrived, Roro Jonggrang ensured the task could not be completed. In retaliation, King Bandung turned Roro Jonggrang into stone, creating the Roro Jonggrang temple.

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    The document summarizes the legend of the Prambanan temples in Central Java. It describes how the Prambanan kingdom was conquered by the evil King Bandung Bondowoso of Pengging. He fell in love with King Prabu Baka's daughter, Roro Jonggrang, but she agreed to marry him only if he could build 1,000 temples in one night with the help of his genie army. Through tricking the genies into thinking dawn had arrived, Roro Jonggrang ensured the task could not be completed. In retaliation, King Bandung turned Roro Jonggrang into stone, creating the Roro Jonggrang temple.

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    The Legend of Prambanan Temple

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    The document summarizes the legend of the Prambanan temples in Central Java. It describes how the Prambanan kingdom was conquered by the evil King Bandung Bondowoso of Pengging. He fell in love with King Prabu Baka's daughter, Roro Jonggrang, but she agreed to marry him only if he could build 1,000 temples in one night with the help of his genie army. Through tricking the genies into thinking dawn had arrived, Roro Jonggrang ensured the task could not be completed. In retaliation, King Bandung turned Roro Jonggrang into stone, creating the Roro Jonggrang temple.

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    The Legend of Prambanan Temple

    A long time ago, there lived a very powerful king named Prabu Baka. He was the king of the
    Prambanan kingdom. All people in the kingdom were afraid of him because he looked like a
    giant monster.

    All the people of Prambanan lived peacefully. But then, the Prambanan kingdom was attacked
    and occupied by the Pengging kingdom. Prambanan was then ruled by Bandung Bondowoso of
    Pengging kingdom. He was a mean king. He also had great supernatural power. His soldiers
    were not only humans but also genies.

    The king of Prambanan had a beautiful daughter named Roro Jonggrang. Bandung Bondowoso
    fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. “You’re so beautiful. Would you be my queen?”
    asked Bandung Bondowoso. Roro Jonggrang was shocked. She didn’t like Bandung
    Bondowoso because he was a mean and evil person. She wanted to refuse, but she was afraid
    that Bandung Bondowoso would be angry and endanger the people of Prambanan. Then, she
    came up with a plan. “If you want to marry me, you have to build a thousand temples for me in
    just one night,” said Roro Jonggrang. “What? That’s impossible!” said Bandung Bondowoso. But
    he didn’t give up. He consulted with his advisor. “Your Majesty can ask the genies to help built
    the temples,” said the advisor.

    So, Bandung Bondowoso summoned his entire genie army and commanded them to help him
    built a thousand temples. The genies worked at unbelievable speed. Meanwhile, Roro
    Jonggrang heard from her servant that the building of a thousand temples was almost finished,
    she was so worried. But again, she came up with a great idea. She asked all of her servants to
    help her. “Please prepare a lot of straw and mortar. Please hurry up!” said Roro Jonggrang.
    “Burn the straw and make some noise pounding the mortar, quickly.” All those servants did what
    Roro Jonggrang ordered them to do. They were burning straw and pounding the mortar, to
    making the genies think that the sun is going to rise.

    “It’s already dawn. We have to go now,” said the leader of the genies to Bandung Bondowoso.
    All the genies immediately stopped their work and ran for cover from the sun, which they are
    afraid of. They didn’t know that the light was from the fire that was burning the straw, not from
    the sun.

    Bandung Bondowoso can’t stop the genies from leaving. He was angry. He knew Roro
    Jonggrang had just tricked him. “You cannot fool me, Roro Jonggrang. I already have 999
    temples. I just need one more temple. Now, I will make you the one-thousandth temple.” He
    pointed his finger to Roro Jonggrang and said some spells. Magically, Roro Jonggrang’s body
    turned into stone. Until now, the temple is still standing in the Prambanan area, Central Java.
    And the temple is called Roro Jonggrang temple.

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