CANDI LARAS

  Laras Temple is a small temple site located in Candi Laras village, Candi Laras Selatan, Tapin, South Kalimantan Province, which was found in a location called the people called Tanah Tinggi which is located at the coordinate position 2 ° 37′12 ″ S 114 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 2 ° 37′12 ″ S 114 ° 56′0 ″ E. At the site of this temple found pieces of the Batara statue The teacher holds the cupu, Nandini and linga oxen.
  Everything is stored in the Lambung Mangkurat Museum, Banjarbaru. The location of this temple is not in a strategic location, so it is estimated that this temple was established for certain purposes and is estimated to be a state temple. In the area adjacent to this temple, namely in the Amas river basin, a Buddha statue of Dipankara was found and a piece of stone bearing the Pallawa script related to Buddhism reads "siddha" (it should read "jaya siddha yatra" means "journey a blessed pilgrimage "). the sentence is reminiscent of the tenth line of the inscriptions of the 7th century AD Srivijaya kingdom "Sriwijaya jaya siddha yatra subhiksa".
  the similarity of the sentences on the two inscriptions may indicate a connection between the Srivijaya kingdom and Tapin. The ancient site of the Laras Temple is thought to have been built in 1300 AD by Jimutawahana, a descendant of Dapunta Hyang from the Srivijaya kingdom. It is this Jimutawahana that is thought to be the ancestor of the residents of Tapin. Based on the discovery of archaeological objects found around this site dating from the 8th or 9th century.
  In the area adjacent to the temple, namely on the road in Baringin B village near the Tambingkaran river, including the Amas River, statues were found. The condition had broken the right hand and both legs had broken. The Buddha statue is made of bronze with a width of 8 cm and a height of 21 cm. Pictured stands wearing a robe that is draped over the left shoulder. His left hand is forward while holding the end of the robe.
  His face is depicted rather round with slanted eyes and mouth with the tip of his lips rather upward as in the faces of Thai statues. Seeing the characteristics of his face, the Buddha statue has the name Dwarawati which developed around the 8th century AD.
  Fragments of stone inscriptions with Pallawa inscriptions found at the base of the Amas River. This Old Malay-language inscription which is related to the "holy journey", reads // ... siddha ... // (it should fully read // jaya siddha yatra // means "the holy journey that gets success"). This siddhayatra inscription is seen in its literary form as contemporary as the siddhayatra inscriptions found in the Palembang region. Judging from the style of the Buddha statue Dipaŋkara and the literary form on the inscription fragments it is thought that the place had existed since the 7-8th century AD. In 2000 a radiocarbon C-14 study was carried out from a sample of ironwood pillars which were still embedded in their original location, and dating to around the 14th century AD