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candi: This word is derived from the Sanskrit Chandgrika (House of the Goddess of Death) or Candika, another name for Durga (Goddess of Death). The present-day meaning of candi is roughly 'temple', regardless of the temple's purpose or its religious source. Outwardly, candis don't differ from temples serving for regular worship of Hindu deities, but many Javanese candis were dedicated to the cult of the dead. On some supposedly 'Hindu' temples on Java, there's a combination of Hinduism plus a monument to a god-king, ancient nobleman, ancestor, sire or teacher whose ashes are buried underneath the cahdi. In some temples the dead king is actually depicted as a Hindu god, his spirit presiding in a statue of a god which can be contacted ritually. Thus, candis were magic centers radiating power.

Irrigation farming long ago created on Java an intensely cooperative society where villages grouped together under strong district rulers who were needed to control the flow of water. The ability to support luxurious pastimes as immortalizing oneself or one's god by erecting such impressive monuments which required decades to build, massive human toil and suffering, indicates a gigantic agricultural wealth. The candis you see today were once surrounded by flowering trees, high walls, and tall gates opening to inner courtyards. All around these sumptuous temple complexes were shady lanes, ricefields, and the bamboo homes of the people. Seldom do you see any of these ruined temples venerated today. Candis were rich Brahmins' structures, the temples of the people were built of just wood and bamboo. But the temple-builders created the seeds of their own destruction. Working the peasants too hard was the most likely reason why power shifted from East Java in the 10th Century and did not return until the 16th Century. Temple construction had all but stopped by the end of the 15th Century with the Mount Lawu group being one of the last remnants in stone of the Java-Hindu era.