Jajaghu Temple

Jago Temple is located in Jago hamlet, Tumpang village, sub-district of Tumpang, Malang Regency, precisely 22 km to the east of the city Malang. Because of the location in Tumpang village. This temple often called Tumpang temple but local people called it “Cungkup”. According to the keeper of Jago temple, the name of temple is actually Jajaghu. Jajaghu itself means “Greatness”, is a term used to call sacred place.The consctruction of Jago temple in progress since 1268 AD until 1280 AD, as a honor to the 4th King of Singasari, namely Sri Jaya Wisniwardhana. Although it was built at the reign of Singosari Kingdom, mentioned in the second book that Jago temple is one of the most frequented place visited by King Hayam Wuruk of Majapahit Kingdom at 1359 AD. It was expected that Jago temple has been restored at 1343 AD as the order of the King Adityawarman from Malays who still has blood relations with King Hayam Wuruk. Jago temple is still in ruins which has not been restored at present. The whole building of the temple is rectangular with an area of 23 x 14 m. The roof of the temple is gone, so that the original high of the building can not be measure certainly. It is estimated that the height reached 15 m. The building itself faced to the west, standing on a shelf at about 1 m and the based of the temple which consists of three storey terraces. And foot terrace of the temple decrease so that at the first and the second floor hallway, there can be passed to surround the temple. Garba ghra( main hall) is shifted slightly to the rear. if we saw form of the building, it shows that generally used in building a place of worship ancestral spirit. It is estimated that the goal of the building Jago temple is also a place to worship ancestral spirits. But it still needed further research and study to prove its truth. Jago temple filled with neatly carved reliefs from feet to the top wall of the room. There is almost no empty space, because all filled with a variety of ornaments in the fabric of the stories which contains elements of the release of departure. This reinforces the notion that building of Jago temple is closely related to the death Sri Jaya Wisnuwardhana. In accordance with the religion professed by the King Wisnuwardhana, namely Shiva Budhha, the reliefs at Jago temple contain Hinduism and Buddhism. Buddhism is reflected in the reliefs of the story and the story of the sister Kamandaka Kunjarakarna terraces carvedon the bottom. On the second terrace wall sculpted Kunjarakarna continued story and the story of Mahabharata passage which contains the teachings of Hinduism, namely Wiwaha Parthayajna and Arjuna. The third terrace is filled with stories Arjunawiwaha further relief. The walls of the temple is also filled with sculptured reliefs of the Hindu story, namely warwith Kalayawana Krishna. In the middle of the front yard, about 6 m from the foot of the temple, there is a large stone carved statue of a giant saucer-like shape, with a stonediameter of about 1 m. At its peak there is a lotus flower sculpture that extends from the cob. On the west side of the temple there are statues of the page Amoghapasa backed throne-shaped eight-armed giant heads back to each other. Head of the statue was gone and his arms had been broken. Approximately 3 m in the south of the statue, there is giant head of statue as high as 1 m. It remains unclear whether the statues is in the outskirts of this temple is a relic authentic objects from past story