Once upon a time, there lived a
young man called sangkuriang. He had been separated by his mother since his
childhood. Twenty years later, he was destined to meet her.
One day, on his way home from
hunting, Sangkuriang stopped at a small village. There, he met and fell in love with a beautiful young woman named
Dayang Sumbi. He didn’t recognize that the village was his homeland. He didn’t
know as well that the beautiful young woman was his own sacred mother who
remains young and pretty. The love of Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi grew
naturally. They even planned a wedding. Both of them didn’t know that they were
mother and son.
Suddenly,
an unpredictable thing happened. Dayang Sumbi accidentally saw a scar on the
head of Sangkuriang. She then recognized it as matched that of her only son’s
who had left years before. This realization stuck her. How could she marry her
own son? Then, she revealed the whole truth to him. However, she couldn’t
convince him to forget the married. Not wanting to upset him, Dayang Sumbi set
some impossible conditions. She would marry Sangkuriang only if he could
provide her with a great lake by filling the whole valley by water. She also
asked him to complete the lake with a boat for them to sail in. Both the lake
and the boat must be ready in one night.
Confidently,
Sangkuriang accepted the conditions. He was helped by some Guriangs to dam
Citarum river with landslides. The water of the river rose and filled the plain
changing it into a lake. A big tree was cut to make a boat.
Meanwhile,
the dawn was just moment away. And the boat was almost completed. Dayang Sumbi
realized that Sangkuriang would fulfill the conditions she had set. In that
case, she waved her supernatural shawl and lit up the eastern horizon with
flashes of light. This false dawn deceived the cock and made it crowed. And
then, the farmers rose for the new day.
Sangkuriang
was shocked. His work not yet complete. He became conscious that his endeavor
was lost. Angrily, he kicked the boat that he himself had built. The boat fell
over and in so doing become the mountain Tangkuban Perahu. In Sundanese,
Tangkuban means up-turned or upside down, and perahu means boat. With the dam
torn asunder, the water drained from the lake becoming a wide plain and
nowadays became a city called Bandung.
It was derived from the word “Bendung” which means dam.
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