Dayang
Sumbi was exiled in the jungle, because she was unmarried but pregnant. She gave a birth to a baby boy and named him
Sang Kuriang. And he became a young and
hard working boy. He was a good hunter too.
One
day he went hunting with 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 at it and killed it, and then took its heart
home. He cooked it and ate it with his
mother. When he told that it was si Tumang’s
heart, she was very angry and hit Sang Kuriang’s head with a spoon. And he ran away and left his mother to the
east. He did not know himself and forgot
his name. He was about 16 years of age.
After
along time Sang Kuriang came back to the jungle where his mother lived. She looked younger than her age, so Sang Kuriang
fell in love with her. “Will you marry
me?’’ one day he asked her. But Dayang Sumbi refused because she recognized
that he was her son. He insisted to marry her and Dayang Sumbi asked two
marriage settlements. One, he had to
dammed Citarum river, and two, had to make a boat in one night
Sang
Kuriang almost finished his work but Dayang Sumbi cheated him. He was angry and kicked the boat. The boat fell upside down on the peak of
mountain. It was known Tangkuban Perahu, at the northern of Bandung, West Java.
