Jayaprana Grave

The story of Jayaprana is : centuries ago, there was a small kingdom called Kalianget. Once upon a day the kingdom was attached by dangerous diseases that most of its people died. But the kingdom was safe although most of the king family members died, too. This made the king very sad. Then he visited his people for entertain himself and his people. At a cross road he met a child (boy) who was crying for the death of his parents and his brothers. The king adopted the boy to be his son because of losing all his children. He took the boy the his palace and lived with him. The boy was Jayaprana. When the boy had got adult he became a handsome one. The king loved him so much so he gave anything for his happiness.

But Jayaprana was a good man. He never wanted any curious thing and had a simple way of life inspite of being a son of the king. Then, the time had come. He falled in love with a beautiful seller flower in the market. The girl was Layonsari (actually this is not her real name. No one know her real name. The name of Layonsari was known after her death). Back to the story. Layonsari also falled in love with Jayaprana. Simply the king agreed with the intention of Jayaprana in merrying her. The people of the kingdom were very happy with the merriage, especially Jayaprana and Layonsari. But what’s a pity. The king falled in love, too, with Layonsari when Layonsari had been Jayaprana’s wife.

That’s the beginning. The king then ordered Jayaprana go to the forest near the sea to kill the robbers accompanied by his guards. With this strategy the king hoped he could gave Jayaprana away from his wife and he could persuaded Jayaprana’s wife to merry himself. Jayaprana went to the forest although his wife had told him about her bad sign for his journey. He accompanied by Patih Sawung Galing, the head guard of the kingdom. After walking for days they reached the forest eventually. There were many faiths with the robbers, and they succeeded in killing all the robbers. At the last faith with the robbers, Patih Sawung Galing tried to kill Jayaprana. But he could not.

He tried many times with various ways but nothing could kill him. Then Patih Sawung Galing stopped. Jayaprana and Patih Sawung Galing made a conversation. Jayaprana asked Patih Sawung Galing why he wanted to kill him. According to Patih Sawung Galing, that was the king’s order. He told Jayaprana that the king wanted to be a husband of Layonsari. Jayaprana understood and became sad. He knew the king was very kind of him during his life. Jayaprana wanted to give anything to the king but his wife. He had promised to obey all the orders of the king. Of course, Jayaprana could killed Patih Sawung Galing and then killed the king.

But what for ? He though. With the event, he had nothing anymore in his life except his wife. He was so sad. Then he decided to let Patih Sawung Galing to kill him in order to fulfil his promise to the king, his step-father. He took the flower he was using in this hair and gave it to Patih Sawung Galing. Jayaprana also gave his Keris to Patih Sawung Galing so he could kill him. Jayaprana asked Patih Sawung Galing to send his mesage to his wife that he was died in order to fulfil his promise to the king. The tears of Patih Sawung Galing dropped when he took the flower and Keris. With just one hit Patih Sawung Galing could kill Jayaprana easily. Then the magic began, A good smell came from the body of Jayaprana and spreaded out to cover the forest. 

All animals became sad and screamed out but a white tiger. The tiger jumped to Patih Sawung Galing and killed the guard with one hit. The same event also happened to Layonsari a few day later. She suicided after knowing her husband had been died for the king. A good smell came from her body and spreaded out to cover the palace. (Jayaprana’s wife had her name from this event. Layonsari derived from two words; Layon means the death body, and Sari means a good smell). The good smell was a sign that they had no sins. The king was so sad with the event. Then he withdrewn himself and stopped reigning the kingdom. People of the Kindom then brought the body of Layonsari to the forest where Jayaprana killed few days ago (because they wanted to met them together again).

At the place the people built two graves. One grave for Jayaprana and Layonsari, another grave was for Patih Sawung Galing. The last man was destined to be the guard of the grave forever. After a complete ceremony, Jayaprana and Layonsari were stated as holy men. For centuries there have been many people (of Hindu, Moslem and Christian) come to the grave for worship. It is peace and has a good view. You can see the sea, Menjangan island, event some mounts in East Java from this grave. In front of the grave is a beautiful peninsula. The place is known as Teluk Terima.