THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TEXT OF RAMAYANA JAWA KUNO AND THE RENDERING OF RAMAYANA STORY-RELIEF IN PRAMBANAN TEMPLE
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2020
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International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Vol.24, Issue 02
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Other than as decor, Ramayana story-relief of Prambanan temple functions as teachings in visual form.
The teachings source, a heroism narration of Rama (also called Ramayana epic), is a holy book originally written by
Valmiki an Indian nationality, which later spread to various areas including Java island. Javanese society
was known as open to external cultures. Conversely, they did not forthwith use it as their teachings. The epic
later encountered a change in the form of story-part addition, written as Ramayana Jawa Kuno (RJK). Several
researchers believe that RJK was employed as the guidance in the making of Ramayana story-relief, as there is a
conformity between the written text and the rendering sculptures. Thus, the RJK text was likewise employed by the
author to analyze the depictions of each scene in the relief panels. Nevertheless, the analyses conversely found some
differences in some scenes and objects which show the presence of text interpretation and the discretion of the
sculptures at the time.
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Prambanan, Ramayana, RJK Text, Sculptor, story-relief Subject classification codes, Visual Language, Photography