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Pura Pulaki is a Holy Place Heritage Prehistory in the holy area that can be called perfect, which is located in Buleleng Regency Bali. In addition to stunning natural scenery have, and the aura of religious sanctity in the area around the shrine and the surrounding areas will be clearly felt, as if in the sidelines of the skin pores. Some people who had prayers to the shrine was often admitted even thinner hair in the neck on a portrait. Perhaps because of excessive amazed at the beauty of the natural or very impressed on the religious aura that dirasakannya.

Pura Pulaki standing on the cliffs that have directly overlooking the sea. In the background lie the steep hills that have only once, just once green when the rainy season. Pura appear dignified, strong and majestic, precisely because they stand in the place that very difficult. Moreover, the display so interesting. If standing in the temple and then look to the future, not only the sea that will appear, but also a small cluster of hills in the western shaped peninsula. Monkey-monkey living in the vicinity of the shrine, despite fierce impressed, also created the distinctive charm.

Pulaki temple is located in the village of Banyupoh Subdistrict Gerokgak, Buleleng, about 53 kilometers in the western city of Soweto. This temple is located on the edge of the road majors Soweto-Gilimanuk, so that people will always stop Hindu to pray if by coincidence of Gilimanuk to Soweto, or vice versa. However, if you want to pray in a rollicking, people can come when piodalan held a series that began in Purnama Sasih Kapat. Pura Pulaki history can not be described accurately. However, various pieces of data, the history of the temple at least it can dirunut from the prehistoric era.

Chairman of the Cultural Development Group, North Bali Drs. I Ketut girl Simba said, referring to the system if the public trust in the validity archipelago - since the days of prehistoric mountains always considered a holy place and be stana the deity and the place of the holy spirit of the ancestors - it is estimated Pura Pulaki have stood since the prehistoric period. This is on that very concept of worship Gods Mount, which is one characteristic of prehistoric people. As a place of worship facilities are usually created where cult berundak-undak. The higher undakannya, the higher the value kesuciannya. "As quasi-row in the mountains from east to west on the island of Bali this," said Simba.

Pura Pulaki in the area, around the Pura toss, around 1987 found some instruments made of stone, among other would-shaped stone, shaped axes and other tools. By this, and the views of the layout and structure of the temple, then it can be suspected of background Pura Pulaki originally associated with the cult facilities prehistoric people who shaped building berundak.

On the other hand, viewed from the location of Pura Pulaki located in the Bay Pulaki and have many sources of fresh water spring, then this area is suspected to be human since the centuries ago. Pulaki enough area to be visited by boat crowded trade, which require water as a material that is necessary in the voyage to Java and the Moluccas. In fact, the likelihood at that time there have been valid in the form of barter trade. Goods produced from the possibility that the area is Pulaki from sugar palm sap. It is based up to now still in the palm plants found along the coast to the east of Gilimanuk, including Pulaki.

From the description, said Simba, can already suspected Pulaki since the prehistoric period, both related to the holy places, as well as a place of other activities. This continues until the Bali attack by Majapahit year 1343 CE. In the book Gajah Mada expedition to Bali, which drafted Ketut Ginarsa written that the troops Gajah Mada down in Jembrana and marching toward rural villages, such as Pegametan, Pulaki and Wangaya.

According to Simba, Pulaki also been used as the center of the Hindu religious sect Waisnawa around 1380 CE as stated in the book''Bhuwana Tatwa Maharesi Markandeya''Ketut Ginarsa order. Other data that there are about Pulaki also in the book''Dwijendra Tatwa''essay Sugriwa Good girl. There is written, "Let my younger sister, quiet here alone, together with our daughter Ni Swabawa. He has become a holy Batara Dalem toss and adinda be Batara Dalem Elan will be and are people here who will be Sheena pralinakan invisible to the human being. All of a fine person. Regional this village and called Pulaki. "

Pulaki other data about finding pieces of the temple is shaped like a temple in the kingdom of Kediri. Belatungan found in February 1987. From that data, then the conclusion Pura Pulaki presence as a holy place has been around since the prehistoric period and disappeared after the presence of Dang Hyang Nirarta with events dipralinakannya Pura Pulaki around 1489 CE. Pura Pulaki without the presence of the sekala lasted long enough. Pura Pulaki disappeared from sight here and this area is practically empty since 1489 until around 1920 or for about 431 years. But before that, the period from the prehistoric period until the presence of Ida Batara Dang Hyang Nirarta year 1489, Pura Pulaki still remain as a place of worship, whether undertaken prehistoric people, people with Baliaga sect Waisnawa who developed RSI Markandeya and the followers of the Tri Sakti with the symbol three lotus flower bud of red, black and white, which quoted Dang Hyang Nirarta obtained from swimming in the belly of a dragon in Pulaki.

A region that is not inhabited during this, it is definitely a wilderness inhabited only and wild animals, wild pigs, tigers, bison and others. Despite this, according to Simba, the village of Kalisada and several villages in the surrounding areas still remain faithful to the Bhakti ngaturang Batara Pulaki in the boat from Kalisada. However, while the lefthanded is not there anymore, so pemujaannya done on the stones around the Pura Pulaki which are located in this place now.

For that, Simba suspect Pura Pulaki actually located in the forest, not in place now. Location of the temple that is now estimated as a place pengayatan because residents did not dare go into the forest. "Because this place is inhabited wild animals, so I may go to rural areas," he said.

Year 1920 Pulaki was started with disewakannya this place by the Dutch colonial government to the people of China called Ang What Tech. Area and then returned around 1950 the next-done restoration restoration of holy places in the area. Pura Pulaki restoration and pesanakannya done after 1950.

According to Simba, Pura Pulaki and pesanakan, such as Customs Pura, Pura Kerta Wire, Pura toss, Belatungan Pura, Pura Puncak Manik and Pura Pemuteran, can not be separated. Seen from 7 locations Temples and shrines, according to the Hindu concept that includes the concept of local sapta, namely, the concept of sapta patala, namely, 7 layer universe.

HISTORY Pura Pulaki not be released from places of worship in Bali. According to the Chairman of the Cultural Development Group, North Bali Drs. I Ketut girl Simba, Buleleng is located between mountains and sea. Because of the distance mountains and the sea is very close to the datarannya owned very narrow. This area is called nyegara mountains, a region filled with the spiritual center and place of worship, both in the mountains or the seaside.

Elan Simba explained, the island of Bali is no such animal ubahnya duck. Head to the west faced with Java, back north to face with the sea of Java and Bali Sea, tails to the east to Lombok. Meanwhile, neck, crop, chest, abdomen, face-to-face with the Indian Ocean. In the back of Bali suite extends from the western mountain areas, local village to the east Cekik Lempuyang in Karangasem Bali that seems to be split into two. Bali and South Denbukit. Denbukit also divided the two, in which the west called dauh enjung and dangin enjung, where the boundaries are enjung sanghyang.

This duck tails have a meaning that the value of chastity Bali have a very high. Because the duck sacred animals, if proven to make people banten (holy rule), especially around the holy, so this animal is very facilities that determine the sanctity banten. Similarly, the mountains stretching from west to east is back ducks, in which the backbone and marrow contains elements of life on the spiritual dimension. "In places this is the line found kundalini," he said.

Crocodilian species found along the coast, among other Bakungan Pura, Pura Bay Accept, Inverell Lalang, Pura Gede Pengastulan, Inverell Aji, Celuk Agung, Weighing, Beji, Puradalem Puri, Gambur Anglayang, Kerta State Mas, Corner Stone, with the Pura Pulaki pesanakannya and other shrines. While in the mountains from west to east, there Pura Pucak Manik, Pura Bujangga, Asah Sagittarius, Batukaru, Tamblingan, Mangu Peak, Mount Sinunggal, Indrakila, Writing, Besakih, Mount Andakasa, Lempuyang and others.

Now, Pura Pulaki built on the place of harmony between the mountains and the sea or bay. But the layout, structure and environment Pura Pulaki this element was found between the ocean and mountains that are attached.