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	Singhasari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		To accomplish this, Ken Arok went to a famous swordsmith Mpu Gandring and asked him to make a sacred Keris to use for this mission.
		With his last breath, Mpu Gandring cursed Ken Angrok and the next 7 generations of his descendants to death by the same sword.
		Ken Angrok was the first king of Singhasari, and true to the curse was killed by his son in law, Anusapati, using the keris of Mpu Gandring.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Singhasari (487 words)

	Encyclopedia: Singhasari
		To accomplish this, Ken Arok went to a famous swordsmith Mpu Gandring and asked him to make him a sacred Kris to use for this mission.
		With his last breath, Mpu Gandring cursed Ken Arok and the next 7 generations of his descendants to death by the same sword.
		Ken Arok was the first king of Singhasari, and true to the curse was killed by his son in law, Anusapati, using the keris of Mpu Gandring.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Singhasari (885 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mpu Jamsuwi memang tidak dikenal dalam sejarah klasik sebagai pembuat keris, dan bukan seangkatan dengan Mpu Gandring, Mpu Ramajadi, Mpu Cakang -- tokoh-tokoh pembuat keris di Kerajaan Singorasi.
		Kalau sekarang saya punya beberapa keris dengan berbagai ukuran, itu semata-mata untuk perlengkapan menari, entah mpu mana yang membuatnya karena membelinya juga di toko seni.
		Siapa tahu ada mpu yang menciptakan pamor-pamor baru.
	www.balipost.co.id /BALIPOSTCETAK/2002/4/20/bd3.htm (819 words)

	Pam's Bali
		However, Mpu Bharada enraged the witch by restoring the tree so she turned her fire against the holy man. He remained unmoved and killed her with one of her own mantras.
		Then he conspired with Mpu Gandring, and he promised the smith that if he succeeded in killing the king, that all of his descendants in perpetuity would always have the right to a seven-tiered cremation tower.
		Mpu Gandring then quickly drew his kris, and stabbed the king to death with one thrust to his heart.
	www.pamsbali.com /works/SeaOfHoney/soh02.htm (3113 words)

	Indo
		He came up to Mpu Gandring to ask if the keris was completed.
		Ken Arok had abandoned Mpu Gandring's keris and Anusapati took the keris and killed Ken Arok with it.
		In the 21st year of Anusapati's rule, Tohjaya invited Anusapati to his palace for gambling, and while Anusapati was having fun, Tohjaya killed him, again with Mpu Gandring's keris.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Breakers/2808/legend.html (3214 words)

	Kris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the most famous folk stories from Java describes a legendary kris bladesmith, called Mpu Gandring, and his impatient customer, Ken Arok.
		The prophecy finally came true, and the unfinished kris of Mpu Gandring disappeared.
		Krises were worn everyday and at special ceremonies, with heirloom blades being handed down through successive generations.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kris (1216 words)

	ebay talisman? - vikingsword.com forums
		Gandring now uses the tag MpuGandring for reasons that should be self evident.
		Yet you call gandring a serious collector and cite his collection as one which "reflects standing" and use that to support the possibility that his talisman is the real thing.
		Gandring was apparently removed from ebay for his previous practices.
	www.vikingsword.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/001760.html (2576 words)

	Discovering East-Java : TEMPLE ART, Page 4 of 6 ; Singosari
		Mpu Gandring showed him the half finished blade which, though formed, was still dull and rough.
		He died at the hand of his stepson, Anusapati, betrayed by his own wife, Ken Dedes, who gave the kens to her son by Tunggul Ametung so that he could take his revenge.
		Twenty years later, despite excessive precautions such as having a moat built around his bed, Anusapati too fell victim to the curse of Mpu Gandring.
	www.eastjava.com /books/discovery/html/temple-sing1.html (541 words)

	Majapahit : The Origins of Rajasa Dynasty , page 1 of 2
		In the village of Lulumbang there lived a renowned metal smith named Mpu Gandring who, it was said, could forge a kens capable of overcoming the strongest magical protection.
		On hearing Ken Angrok's request, therefore, Mpu Gandring said that he would need a full year in which to perfect the blade.
		Impatiently, he demanded that Mpu Gandring complete the job in five months, and then went on his way.
	www.eastjava.com /books/majapahit/html/dynasty.html (594 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		This sentence ''Before his dead in the hand of Ken Arok Mpu Gandring Says that his keris will not stop used to kill Ken Arok's Offspring until the 7th generation.'' could possibly be parsed #Ken Arok was killed by his son-in-law using the keris named Mpu Gandring.
		User:Ancheta Wis Ancheta Wis 11:03, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC) : Mpu Gandring was a name of Blacksmith.
		It was Mpu Gandring who proclaim his keris will extinguish Ken Arok and his descendant.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Singhasari.html (678 words)

	Ethnographic Arms & Armour - plese help identify this pamor
		The second was the famous keris of Mpu Gandring which was involved with the founding and the deaths of the kings of the Singasari kingdom in the 13'th century.
		Rather it is weilded by the proper care of the blade which is believed to activate the Mpu's prayer beaten between the hammer and the anvil.
		There are only two famous keris killings: Mpu Gandring's unfinished keris killed Tunggul Ametung, Ken Arok, Anusapati, and Tohjaya but according to Pramoedya Ananta Toer the keris was not a real keris but rather a metaphor for an elite military unit.
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	singhasari (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This kingdom ruled after the fall of the Kediri kingdom.
		Ken Arok was the first king of Singhasari, and was killed by his son in law, Panji Tohjaya, using the keris Mpu Gandring.
		See talk page: Before his dead in the hand of Ken Arok Mpu Gandring Says that his keris will not stop used to kill Ken Arok's Offspring until the 7th generation.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /singhasari.html (152 words)

	Kuta Bali
		In anger, he snatched hold of the unfinished weapon and stabbed Mpu Gandring to death.
		As he lay dying, however, the smith laid a curse on the kens, to the effect that it would be responsible not only for the death of Ken Angrok himself, but for seven generations following.
		Ken Angrok is reported to have been stabbed in the back at the dinner table by his stepson, Anusapati, in 1247, following the latter's discovery of the truth behind his father's murder.
	maja.20m.com /theoriginrajasadinasty.htm (565 words)

	INDONESIAN MYTH
		He ordered a "keris" (a sacred short sword) to a priest, Mpu Gandring.
		Ken Arok had abandoned Mpu Gandring's keris but Anusapati killed him with that.
		At the 21th year of Anusapati's rule, Tohjaya invited Anusapati for gambling, and when Anusapati was having fun, Tohjaya killed Anusapati, again with Mpu Gandring's keris.
	www.st.rim.or.jp /~cycle/MYkerisE.HTML (567 words)

	marini.at
		Krises became intimate in the daily life of the Javanese (as governor general Raffles once put it, "Javanese males without krises are like nude men") and assumed a variety of different functions.
		Such faith sometimes occurs because of the tangguh (age and origin) of a kris, which is often connected with the mpu who welded the weapon.
		The word mpu refers not only to a kris-maker, but also to those with exceptional knowledge in other fields like literature, history, the occult, craftsmanship etc. History records such well-known figures as Mpu Kanwa, Mpu Tantular, Mpu Sedah, Mpu Panuluh and Mpu Sindok, who were all highly respected.
	www.marini.at /expat/reading/keris.htm (906 words)

	Gray Area
		Yang gue tau selama ini kejadiannya Ken Arok yang langsung membunuh Mpu Gandring dengan keris pesanannya, dan juga membunuh langsung Tunggul Ametung dengan keris itu.
		Ditambah cerita tentang kutukan Mpu Gandring pada keris yang dipakai itu akan membunuh tujuh keturunan Arok.
		Sedangkan versi Pram diambil dari pahatan di Tugu Kemenangan Arok di Candi Singasari, dan kitab Lubdaka dari Mpu Tangkung yang dibuat pada masa hidup Arok.
	mygrayarea.blogspot.com /2002_11_01_mygrayarea_archive.html (1640 words)

	Starrbirth.Com Kris Maker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For the same purpose, agrarian communities would collect the horns of buffaloes they had slaughtered and the Javanese would only feel contented if, apart from owning a big house and a horse, they could own a keris (Javanese dagger).
		The legend of Mpu Gandring, the master flsmith murdered with the kris he forged himself by King Ken Arok, who had ordered the dagger from him, dates back about five centuries.
		Though he was not the first kris-maker, this story has persisted for centuries.
	www.starrbirth.com /stories/kris.html (123 words)

	Bali People Information - Batukaru.info
		ordered a magic kris from Mpu' gandring, most famous of fl smiths, whose kriss bad the power of killing at the first thrust.
		Before dying Mpu' Gandring cursed Ken Arok to be killed by the same kris, and his children and grandchildren also to die by it.
		Ken Arok lent the kris to Kbo Idjo, his best friend, who was so fascinated by it that be wore it everywhere, boasting that it was his.
	www.batukaru.info /people/art_plastic15.php (587 words)

	Panji Tohjaya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tunggul Ametung was the resident of Singashari before Singashari became a kingdom.
		Tunggul Ametung was die in the hand of Ken Arok using Keris Mpu Gandring.
		So that the reason why Ken Arok married her.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/p/pa/panji_tohjaya.html (97 words)

	Panji Tohjaya biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Tunggul Ametung was a resident of Singashari before it became a kingdom.
		Tunggul Ametung was killed by Ken Arok using Keris Mpu Gandring.
		After Tunggul Ametung`s death, Ken Arok married Ken Dedes and built a Singashari Kingdom where he was the first king.
	panji-tohjaya.biography.ms (88 words)

	Arif Widianto personal website \| A Beauty Lover (Museum Archive): It is not Only Indonesian Myth
		The role of the myth (excluding its fact stories) is about the Keris which used by Arok in his coup de 'etat.
		The Keris, created by Mpu Gandring, a flsmith that also has been killed by Arok, ever he has been cursed the Keris before his death.
		The Keris next greatly did the job by killed all seven soul (as written at the verses cursed by its creator before dead).
	arifwidi.com /museum/a/indonesia/000762.html (502 words)

	Setelah Ken Dedes Pulang dari Leiden -- Senin, 5 Juni 2000
		Ken Dedes juga figur tak terpisahkan dari kemelut perebutan kekuasaan menjelang dan di masa Kerajaan Singasari, salah satu rangkaian peristiwa politik paling dramatik dalam sejarah kerajaan-kerajaan Jawa purba.
		Sekadar mengulang cerita guru Sekolah Dasar (SD), Ken Dedes adalah putri Mpu Purwa, pendeta Buddha Mahayana.
		Ia diculik dan diperistri oleh bupati Tumapel bernama Tunggul Ametung yang kemudian dibunuh pemuda desa bernama Ken Arok dengan keris sakti buatan Mpu Gandring.
	www.kompas.com /kompas-cetak/0006/05/ln/sete32.htm (1294 words)

	Sriwijaya Post Online
		Alkisah, ada seorang pandai emas yang akan pulang ke tempat asalnya di Turtayantapada (Turen), bernama Mpu Palot.
		Ia menceritakan kesulitan tanpa amengetahui bahwa yang diajak bicara adalah Ken Arok.
		Sesampai disana Mpu Palot menyampaikan kepandaiannya membuat barang-barang emas sebagai balas budi.
	www.indomedia.com /sripo/2003/02/16/1602uja2.htm (561 words)

	Blacksmiths of Myth and Legend quiz
		In Javanese legend, Ken Angrok commissioned the master swordsmith Mpu Gandring to forge a sacred kriss for Ken Angrok to use to win a wife and a kingdom.
		What magical geas did Mpu Gandring place upon the blade?
		The sword would burn with holy fire in the presence of an enemy
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz2135391873570.html (724 words)

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