queen shima

   Shima is the ruling queen of the Kingdom of Kalinga is located on the northern coast of Central Java, around the year 674 AD. He applied the law of the hard and decisively to combat theft and crime, and to encourage people to always be honest. Tradition tells of a foreign king who put a bag of gold in the middle of the intersection near the square capital of Kalinga. Foreign king was doing it because he heard about the honesty of the people of Kalinga and intend to test the truth of the news. No one dared to touch the bag that was not hers, until one day three years later, a son of Shima, the crown prince had accidentally touched the bag with his feet. The Queen was originally sentenced to death for his son, but the officials and the royal ministers begged the queen not to do it and forgives the prince. Because the feet are touching the prince that was not hers, then sentenced him to cut the Queen of the prince's feet.    According to Carita Parahyangan Shima is a great-grandson of Queen who became King Galuh Sanjaya, and according Inscription Medang Canggal is the founder of the Mataram kingdom. Based on the text mentioned that the Queen Shima Wangsakerta berbesan with last ruler Tarumanegara.
  A king Tazi nevertheless attacked the kingdom of Kalinga, after hearing this story, either because of his admiration for the fair in the Queen's reign or at the Kalinga-abiding citizens to justice, a combination of both is very rare across the nation in the world.


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