The Story of Jaka Tarub - A fable of Java Indonesia

The legend of Jaka Tarub has many versions, but the ' standard ' version, as indicated in the Babad Tanah Jawi, has a plot as follows:

Jaka Tarub Stole Nawangwulan’s Shawl.

Jaka Tarub was a dashing young man with supernatural powers. He often went out hunting in the forest for the sacred mountain. In the mountain there is a telaga. Involuntarily, she sees and then watched seven Apsaras were bathing in the pool. Due to Jaka Tarub, lured took the shawl was draped around the Middle belongs to one of his angels. When the angels finished their shower, get dressed up and ready to go back to heaven. One of the angels, because they did not find her shawl, unable to go back and finally left go by his friends because today is already moving on. Jaka Tarub appears and pretends to help. APSARA named Nawangwulan was willing to join the Jaka Tarub went home because today is already dusk.

The short story is then they got married. From this marriage was born a daughter named Nawangsih. Before marriage, Nawangwulan reminiscent of Jaka Tarub so as not to ever ask you the secret habit himself later after becoming a wife. The secret is that Nawangwulan is always cooking rice using just a grain of rice in a rice cooker but produces a lot of rice. Jaka Tarub the curious did not ask but directly opens the lid of the rice cooker. As a result of this action, the divine power of the Nawangwulan lost. Since then he is like cooking rice is generally an ordinary woman.

Nawangwulan Joined Back with Another Nymph.

As a result of this, the supply of grain in granaries become quickly depleted. When grain supplies live a little, Nawangwulan find her shawl, which turned out to be her husband's hidden in the barn.

An angry Nawangwulan to know if her husband had stolen the object threatened to leave Jaka Tarub. Jaka Tarub begged his wife to not return to heaven. But the round is already Nawangwulan determination. It's just that, at certain times, he willingly came to Marcapada to breastfeed the baby Nawangsih.

The Marriage of Nawangsih

Jaka Tarub would later become Princes styled village of Ki Ageng Tarub, and befriended King Brawijaya of Majapahit. On a day of Brawijaya sending Kris heirloom Kyai Mahesa Nular so treated by Ki Ageng Tarub.

The envoy who delivered the keris Brawijaya named Ki Masahar and great-grandson Bondan Kejawan, his adoptive son. Ki Ageng Tarub knowing Kejawan Bondan's actual case bladder Brawijaya. Then, the young man was asked to live together in the village of Tarub

Since then it became the adopted son of Kejawan Bondan Ki Ageng Tarub, Bull and renamed Peteng. When Nawangsih growing up, both of them were married. After Jaka Tarub died, Bull Peteng aka Bondan Kejawan succeeded him as Ki Ageng Tarub. Own Nawangsih gave birth to a son, who is named after the Pandavas Getas Ki. Ki Ageng Getas Pandava then has a son called Ki Ageng Sela, who was the great-grandfather of Panembahan Senapati, the founder of the Sultanate of Mataram