Stump Ametung kidnapped Ken Dedes and took him to Tumapel Palace. After that she increasingly has a desire to marry Ken Dedes. However, Ken Dedes did not have the slightest intention to accept this marriage.
Tunggul Ametung married Ken Dedes only because he had power. On the other hand, Ken Dedes could not refuse an invitation to marry from Tunggul Ametung because he did not have the power to refuse it.
Ken Dedes is narrated in the book ‘Hitam Putih Ken Arok dari Kejayaan kepada Keruntuhan’ by Muhammad Syamsuddin, feeling disgusted and disgusted with his marriage to the ruler of Tumapel at that time.
It has absolutely no sense of love and loyalty to Tunggul Ametung. The marriage was performed by Dedes by force, in his eyes it did not meet the elements of a valid marriage requirement.
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It is said that the marriage was carried out without witnesses, in fact the marriage was carried out without mentioning his name and the name of his father, Mpu Purwa. Mantras spoken in Sanskrit, in Ken Dedes’s view, are wrong. This marriage ceremony was also assessed by Ken Dedes, invalid and full of defects.
During their second marriage, it was the Balakangka priest who led the procession. All priests from various villages throughout Tumapel were also brought in. There were about forty of them.
In every movement of the wedding ceremony, what Ken Dedes did was nothing but compulsion. For example, during the procession to wash her husband’s curses, Ken Dedes was not willing. In his mind he said that how could he, being a brahman, be the one who was asked to wash the feet of a sudra who was appointed a knight.
