Narrative Text - Tangkuban Perahu

Tangkuban Perahu

Dayang Sumbi was exiled in the jungle, because she was unmarried but pregnant. She gave a birth to a baby boy and named him Sangkuriang. He became a young and hard worker boy. He was a good hunter too.

One day, he went hunting his dog, si Tumang. In the bush he saw a pig, Wayungyang. He wanted to shoot Wayungyang but si Tumang hindered him. He was angry and killed si Tumang. Then he took its heart home. He cooked and ate it with his mother. When he told that it was si Tumang’s heart, Dayang Sumbi was very angry and hit Sangkuriang’s head with a spoon. Finally, Sangkuriang ran way and left her mother alone to the east. He did not know him self and forgot his name.

After a long time Sangkuriang came back to the jungle where his mother lived. Dayang Sumbi looked younger in her age. Sangkuriang fell I love with her. Sangkuriang wanted to marry Dayang Sumbi but she refused because she knew that Sangkuriang was her soon. Sangkuriang insisted to marry Dayang Sumbi. Dayang Sumbi accepted but she wanted him to make a marriage settlement. First, Sangkuriang had to make a dam Citaru River. The second, he had to make a great boat only in one night.

Sangkuriang almost finished his work but Dayang Sumbi cheated him. He was angry and kicked the boat. The boat felt upside down on the peak of mountain. It was known as Tangkuban Perahu, at the northern part of Bandung, West Java.