SENDRATARI
SENDRATARI
JAKATARUB
The
background of Sendratari Jakatarub Yogyakarta style, is the Javanese
legend approaching the setting up of the kingdom of Mataram (16th
century), The story is as follows:
A Young
man, named Jakatarub one day goes hunting with a blow pipe. Coming
close to a lake, he sees heavenly nymphs bathing. jakatarub's heart
beats wildly, and he thinks how happy he would be if he could make
one of these bathing nymphs his wife. He thinks for a long time
and at last comes upon an idea. The nymphs have put their clothes
some distance from the lake, and Jakatarub steals the clothes of
the nymph he has in mind, Dewi Nawangwulan, and takes them home,
hiding them in the rice-barn. Then he returns quickly to the lake.
Having
bathed in the lake long enough the nymphs decide to return to heaven,
and each quickly goes to fetch her own clothes. Dewi Nawangwulan
is startled when she sees that her clothes have disappeared. She
cries, and having been left by her friends, she Plunges into the
lake. again.
Jakatarub,
certain that his device will succeed, approaches Nawangwulan and
-asks her why she is in the lake by herself and why she does not
go home. Sobbing, she tells him that her nymph's clothes are lost,
and as a nymph she cannot fly back to heaven unless she finds them.
jakatarub offers to help her look for them, provided she will become
his wife. Nawangwulan agrees, and they go to jakatarub's home. From
their marriage is born a child who is to beget a line of kings of
Mataram.
One
day when Dewi Nawangwulan is taking rice from the rice-barn she
sees her hidden clothes. She quickly puts them on. Delighted that
she can return to heaven, but moved and filled with sadness that
she will leave her husband and child, she meets her husband and
tells him that the time has come that she is to return to heaven.
With mixed feelings of pleasure and sorrow, Dewi Nawangwulan flies
back to heaven, but jakatarub, bereft of his beloved wife, sadly
carries his child, who is still a tiny baby.
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