Prambanan
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Prambanan is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, in southern Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimūrti, the expression of God as the Creator, the Preserver, and t
Prambanan Temple Compounds
Prambanan Complex 1
The reliefs at Prambanan and the structures of modern houses (of the 1920s) that are similar to it.
The statue of Shiva Mahadeva inside the garbagriha of the main temple.
Sanjaya dynasty
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The Sanjaya dynasty was a Javanese dynasty which ruled the Mataram kingdom in Java during the first millennium CE. The dynasty promoted Hinduism on the island.
Prambanan
…successor King Lokapala. Some historians that adhere to dual dynasty theory suggest that the construction of Prambanan probably was meant as the Hindu Sanjaya dynasty's answer to the Buddhist Sailendra dynasty's Borobudur and Sewu temples nearby, and was meant to mark the return of the Hindu Sanjaya dynasty to power…
The Prambanan temple complex, a legacy of the Sañjaya dynasty
Nicolaes Visscher Indiae Orientalis