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Jati Temple at Pengambengan Village
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ati Temple is nestled within the area of Pengambengan village, about four kilometers south of the town of Negara, Jembrana. The temple spreading across an area of approximately 4,700 square meters is one of the dang khayangan temples (used to venerate a Hindu sage) in Jembrana. As the name implies, this temple has distinctiveness where teak trees grow inside the temple area. This temple is also closely related to the pilgrimage of Dang Hyang Nirartha on the Island of Bali. In the innermost courtyard for worship lie an oblation pavilion, gamelan pavilion, piasan pavilion and a chamber to store cloth paraphernalia. Four teak trees grow in the temple area. According to many of supporting devotee chief, Ketut Astika Jaya, the teak trees had distinctiveness. Aside from prohibited from taking the teak seedlings, the branches of trees belonging to hundreds of years old never toppled over the padmasana shrine underneath. The branch broke itself into ashes and did not topple over the padmasana shrine. Around the spring, there were four teak trees growing close to one another. Once upon a time, one of the trees bent and almost toppled over the temple compound wall. Devotees originally worried if it would touch the wall, but after a few months the tree could stand upright by itself. “In addition, after several years, the distance of the padmasana shrine to the teak trees was once only a few centimeters, but now has gone farther up to two meters away. Formerly, the temple priest should lean his body when passing, but now he can pass freely,” he explained. In the middle courtyard lay a resting pavilion, grand entrance gates, apit lawang, tower of wooden split drum (kulkul) and kitchen. Meanwhile, in the outermost courtyard lay the wantilan hall and quite ample parking lot. The temple also got assistance from the regent of Jembrana used to build a fence around the temple area and split gates. In the next five years, the innermost courtyard of the temple would be restored because some parts of the temple had been fragile. Other than on the piodalan or temple anniversary, the temple supported by four customary villages in the Negara subdistrict was also visited by many pil-
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grims on full moon. Those pilgrims were dominated by teenagers and students who wanted to have purificatory rite or malukat. Similarly, myriad of pilgrims also came to worship on Sarasvati Day. In the innermost courtyard lay seven buildings including the padmasana, three-tiered meru shrine, pepelik pavilion, Sri Sedana, representation of Ulun Danu Temple, taksu, chamber to store sanctified effigies and anglurah shrine. The four customary villages supporting the temple were the Tegal Badeng Kauh, Tegal Badeng Kangin, Lelateng and Puseh Agung (Tengah hamlet). This temple was closely associated with Dang Hyang Nirartha as well as two other dang khayangan temples in Jembrana, namely the Perancak and Mertasari. He dropped in at the temple after arriving at Perancak (Dang Khayangan Perancak) and at Mertasari village (Amerthasari Temple). At that time, it was a barren area called Awen and posed a swamp and forest area. During the pilgrimage, he had unwound there and did meditation. Before meditating, he had stuck his stick in a pile and when unplugged it grew into teak trees. In one of the teak tree cavities lay an endless spring. Until now, the trees remain to exist in the temple area. Meanwhile, the temple anniversary falls on Coma (Monday) Pon Wuku Sinta. B N (BTN/kmb)
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