Long
time ago, in Grobogan ,here was a king named Prabu Anglingdarma from Malwapati
Kingdom who had an ability to hear animals’ speaking. One day, he and his wife
were sitting together, spending time doing chit chat. But suddenly, the king
smiled because he heard a male lizard who flirted to female lizard. He heard
that male lizard said he loved female lizard but she did not believe in him.
Misunderstood, king’s wife considered that her husband smiled because he wanted
to mock her softly. Moreover, the king did not want to tell the truth that he
was smiling at the couple of lizard, not to his wife. but his wife forced him
to tell, if not, she would burn herself right at that time. Then, because of
his love toward his wife, he finally told her the truth that he could hear all
animals’ speaking.
After knowing that the king had such a
unique ability, she insisted him to give the ability to her. But the king
refused it because he had swore to the god that he would not tell anybody about
his ability, moreover he also did not know how to transfer his ability to his
wife. Unfortunately, his wife reacted too much. She said that he would burn
herself if the king would not give her the ability. Because of his love, the
king decided to burn himself together with his wife. His wife agreed.
On the day given, Malwapati people
were gathering to see their king and queen burning their body together in a
vast yard, behind the palace. The queen jumped to the fire first. Then, it was
king’s turn to jump, but suddenly he heard a goat mocking at him. “Oh how
stupid our king is, just because of her love to his wife, he would do anything
childish. Who would be able to lead this kingdom if the king itself does not
have a logical thinking?” Right at that time, the king realized that he had
done something stupid. Then he decided to take the water into the fire where
his wife burned his body. But it was so difficult to get water, then with his strong
power, he made a sendang, a place where water comes naturally to the surface
from underground. Then he succeeded and his wife was safe.
The next time he demanded his servant
to take care of the sendang. His servant’s name was Gabusrowo. For the sendang,
he spent forty days fasting to immortalize it. Because of it, his face turned
bright from day to day. Then because his face turned bright as the light, this
sendang is called as Sendang Coyo. Coyo itself means light, implied from the
brightness face of Gabusrowo.
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