Long long time ago, there lived a King named Raden Putra in the Kingdom of Jenggala. In the kingdom, Raden Putra lived with his kind-hearted queen and a beautiful concubine. But unlike the queen, the concubine was very deceitful and has a heart of evil. She was also very greedy and arrogant. The concubine always wanted the best from the king, and because the queen was very kind-hearted, she always gives the concubine the better one. However, it never touched the concubine’s heart and never stoped her from thinking about how to make the queen leave the palace.
One day, the concubine made a plan to banish the queen from the palace. She pretended to be ill and asked the royal healer to help her with her plan. Raden Putra was worried and called the royal healer to give the concubine treatments. At noon, the royal healer came to Raden Putra and told him that the cause of the concubine’s illness is because of a poison. He concluded that the queen gives the poison to the concubine’s tea. Raden Putra was very shocked and angry to hear the royal healer’s explanation. HE immediately went to ask the queen if it is true. Because the queen was innocent, she was also shocked, and of course she denied his words. But Raden Putra was too mad to hear her explanation. Even though he loves the queen very much, he needs to make a punishment for what she had done. The queen needs to be banished to the woods and terminated. Raden Putra didn’t know that the queen was already pregnant. He commanded one of his guard to banish the queen the woods and kill her. Raden Putra’s guard knew that the queen is innocent, but he don’t want to disobey the king’s instruction. So, he made a simple house in the woods for the queen to live in, and smeared his sword wi...
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... Raden Putra was just about to ask who he really is when CIndelaras’ rooster sing the song it sings every morning. Radaen Putra was surprised. He asked Cindelarasif it was true. “ Yes, My Majesty. My name is CIndelaras and my mother was the king.” Said Cindelaras. The king immediately called the guard who had banished the queen. The guard confessed that he had never killed the queen. Later, the royal healer also admitted his mistake and told the king about the concubine’s plan. Raden Putra was so shocked. He immediately went to the woods to pick up the queen he had banished. Ever since, Cindelaras and his parents lived happily ever after. As for the concubine, she was sent to the jail as a punishment.
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http://shirocoo.blogspot.com/2011/06/story-of-cindelaras-from-indonesia.html
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