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IS HISTORY JUSTIFIED?????
BBC says about Taj Mahal---Hidden Truth - Never say it is a Tomb
Aerial view of the Taj Mahal
The interior water well
Frontal view of the Taj Mahal and dome
Close up of the dome with pinnacle
Close up of the pinnacle
Inlaid pinnacle pattern in courtyard
Red lotus at apex of the entrance
Rear view of the Taj & 22 apartments
View of sealed doors & windows in back
Typical Vedic style corridors
The Music House--a contradiction
A locked room on upper floor
A marble apartment on ground floor
The OM in the flowers on the walls
Staircase that leads to the lower levels
300 foot long corridor inside apartments
One of the 22 rooms in the secret lower level
Interior of one of the 22 secret rooms
Interior of another of the locked rooms
Vedic design on ceiling of a locked room
Huge ventilator sealed shut with bricks
Secret walled door that leads to other rooms
Secret bricked door that hides more evidence
Palace in Barhanpur where Mumtaz died
Pavilion where Mumtaz is said to be buried
NOW READ THIS.......
No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the
whole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says
the
Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient
Hindu temple palace of
Lord Shiva (then known as
Tejo Mahalaya ) . In the course of his research O
ak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from
then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court ch ronicle,
Badshahnama,
Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra
was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz's burial . The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur
still
retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for
surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a
burial place for
dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers.
For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried
in such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says
the term "
Mahal " has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries
from Afghanisthan to Algeria . "The unusual explanation that the term Taj
Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects.
Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," he writes.
Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's
name to derive the remainder as the name for the building."Taj Mahal, he
claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva's Palace . Oak
also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale cre ated
by
court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists Not a
single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the love story.
Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates
Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by
Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a
few
samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed
that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan
Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz's
death), describes the life of the cit y in his memoirs. But he makes no
reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an
English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, also suggest the
Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's time.
Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies
that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical Hindu temple
rather
than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj ! Mahal have remained sealed
since Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to the public . Oak
asserts they contain a headless statue of
Lord Shiva and other objects
commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples Fearing political
backlash, Indira Gandhi's government t ried to have Prof. Oak's book
withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the
first edition dire consequences . There is only one way to discredit or
validate Oak's research.
The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Ma hal under
U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.
Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality.....
Probably there is no one who has been duped at least once in a life time. But
can the whole world can be duped? This may seem impossible. But in the matter of indian and world history the world can be duped in many respects for hundreds of
years and still continues to be duped. The world famous Tajmahal is a glaring
instance. For all the time, money and energy that people over the world spend in
visiting the Tajmahal, they are dished out of concoction. Contrary to what
visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an
ancient Shiva Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation moghul
emperor ShahjahanShahjahan commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur. The
Tajmahal, should therefore, be viewed as a temple palace and not as a tomb. That
makes a vast difference. You miss the details of its size, grandeur, majesty and
beauty when you take it to be a mere tomb. When told that you are visiting a
temple palace you wont fail to notice its annexes, ruined defensive walls,
hillocks, moats, cascades, fountains, majestic garden, hundreds of rooms archaded verendahs, terraces, multi stored towers, secret sealed chambers, guest
rooms, stables, the trident (Trishul) pinnacle on the dome and the sacred,
esoteric Hindu letter "OM" carved on the exterior of the wall of the sanctum
sanctorum now occupied by the centotaphs. For detailed proof of this breath
taking discovery,you may read the well known historian Shri. P. N. Oak's
celebrated book titled " Tajmahal : The True Story". But let us place before
you, for the time being an exhaustive summary of the massive evidence ranging
over hundred points:
NAME
1.The term Tajmahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle
even in Aurangzeb's time. The attempt to explain it away as Taj-i-mahal is
therefore, ridiculous.
2.The ending "Mahal"is never muslim because in none of the muslim countries
around the world from Afghanistan to Algeria is there a building known as "Mahal".
3.The unusual explanation of the term Tajmahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal, who is
buried in it, is illogical in at least two respects viz., firstly her name was
never Mumtaj Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani and secondly one cannot omit the first
three letters "Mum" from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name of
the building.
4.Since the lady's name was Mumtaz (ending with 'Z') the name of the building
derived from her should have been Taz Mahal, if at all, and not Taj (spelled
with a 'J').
5.Several European visitors of Shahjahan's time allude to the building as
Taj-e-Mahal is almost the correct tradition, age old Sanskrit name
Tej-o-Mahalaya, signifying a Shiva temple. Contrarily Shahjahan and Aurangzeb
scrupulously avoid using the Sanskrit term and call it just a holy grave.
6.The tomb should be understood to signify NOT A BUILDING but only the grave or
centotaph inside it. This would help people to realize that all dead muslim
courtiers and royalty including Humayun, Akbar, Mumtaz, Etmad-ud-Daula and
Safdarjang have been buried in capture Hindu mansions and temples.
7.Moreover, if the Taj is believed to be a burial place, how can the term Mahal,
i.e., mansion apply to it?
8.Since the term Taj Mahal does not occur in mogul courts it is absurd to search
for any mogul explanation for it. Both its components namely, 'Taj' and' Mahal'
are of Sanskrit origin.
TEMPLE TRADITION
9.The term Taj Mahal is a corrupt form of the sanskrit term TejoMahalay
signifying a Shiva Temple. Agreshwar Mahadev i.e., The Lord of Agra was
consecrated in it.
10.The tradition of removing the shoes before climbing the marble platform
originates from pre Shahjahan times when the Taj was a Shiva Temple. Had the Taj
originated as a tomb, shoes need not have to be removed because shoes are a
necessity in a cemetery.
11.Visitors may notice that the base slab of the centotaph is the marble
basement in plain white while its superstructure and the other three centotaphs
on the two floors are covered with inlaid creeper designs. This indicates that
the marble pedestal of the Shiva idol is still in place and Mumtaz's centotaphs
are fake.
12.The pitchers carved inside the upper border of the marble lattice plus those
mounted on it number 108-a number sacred in Hindu Temple tradition.
13.There are persons who are connected with the repair and the maintainance of
the Taj who have seen the ancient sacred Shiva Linga and other idols sealed in
the thick walls and in chambers in the secret, sealed red stone stories below
the marble basement. The Archaeological Survey of India is keeping discretely,
politely and diplomatically silent about it to the point of dereliction of its
own duty to probe into hidden historical evidence.
14.In India there are 12 Jyotirlingas i.e., the outstanding Shiva Temples. The
Tejomahalaya alias The Tajmahal appears to be one of them known as Nagnatheshwar
since its parapet is girdled with Naga, i.e., Cobra figures. Ever since
Shahjahan's capture of it the sacred temple has lost its Hindudom.
15.The famous Hindu treatise on architecture titled Vishwakarma Vastushastra
mentions the 'Tej-Linga' amongst the Shivalingas i.e., the stone emblems of Lord
Shiva, the Hindu deity. Such a Tej Linga was consecrated in the Taj Mahal, hence
the term Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya.
16.Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient centre of Shiva
worship. Its orthodox residents have through ages continued the tradition of
worshipping at five Shiva shrines before taking the last meal every night
especially during the month of Shravan. During the last few centuries the
residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent
Shiva temples viz., Balkeshwar, Prithvinath, Manakameshwar and Rajarajeshwar.
They had lost track of the fifth Shiva deity which their forefathers worshipped.
Apparently the fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev Nagnatheshwar i.e., The Lord Great
God of Agra, The Deity of the King of Cobras, consecrated in the Tejomahalay
alias Tajmahal.
17.The people who dominate the Agra region are Jats. Their name of Shiva is
Tejaji. The Jat special issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28,1971)
mentions that the Jats have the Teja Mandirs i.e., Teja Temples. This is because
Teja-Linga is among the several names of the Shiva Lingas. From this it is
apparent that the Taj-Mahal is Tejo-Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
18. Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol 1)
that a grand mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome (Imaarat-a-Alishan
wa Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and
the building was known as Raja Mansingh's palace.
19. The plaque put the archealogy department outside the Tajmahal describes the
edifice as a mausoleum built by Shahjahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal , over 22
years from 1631 to 1653. That plaque is a specimen of historical bungling.
Firstly, the plaque sites no authority for its claim. Secondly the lady's name
was Mumtaz-ulZamani and not Mumtazmahal. Thirdly, the period of 22 years is
taken from some mumbo jumbo noting by an unreliable French visitor Tavernier, to
the exclusion of all muslim versions, which is an absurdity.
20. Prince Aurangzeb's letter to his father,emperor Shahjahan,is recorded in
atleast three chronicles titled `Aadaab-e-Alamgiri' , `Yadgarnama' , and the `Muruqqa-i-Akbaraba
di' (edited by Said Ahmed, Agra, 1931, page 43, footnote 2). In that letter
Aurangzeb records in 1652 A.D itself that the several buildings in the fancied
burial place of Mumtaz were seven storeyed and were so old that they were all
leaking, while the dome had developed a crack on the northern side.Aurangzeb,
therefore, ordered immediate repairs to the buildings at his own expense while
recommending to the emperor that more elaborate repairs be carried out later.
This is the proof that during Shahjahan's reign itself that the Taj complex was
so old as to need immediate repairs.
21. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur retains in his secret personal `KapadDwara'
collection two orders from Shahjahan dated Dec 18, 1633 (bearing modern nos.
R.176 and 177) requestioning the Taj building complex. That was so blatant a
usurpation that the then ruler of Jaipur was ashamed to make the document
public.
22. The Rajasthan State archives at Bikaner preserve three other firmans
addressed by Shahjahan to the Jaipur's ruler Jaising ordering the latter to
supply marble (for Mumtaz's grave and koranic grafts) from his Makranna quarris,
and stone cutters. Jaisingh was apparently so enraged at the blatant seizure of
the Tajmahal that he refused to oblige Shahjahan by providing marble for
grafting koranic engravings and fake centotaphs for further desecration of the
Tajmahal. Jaising looked at Shahjahan's demand for marble and stone cutters, as
an insult added to injury. Therefore, he refused to send any marble and instead
detained the stone cutters in his protective custody.
23. The three firmans demanding marble were sent to Jaisingh within about two
years of Mumtaz's death. Had Shahjahan really built the Tajmahal over a period
of 22 years, the marble would have needed only after 15 or 20 years not
immediately after Mumtaz's death.
24. Moreover, the three mention neither the Tajmahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the
burial. The cost and the quantity of the stone also are not mentioned. This
proves that an insignificant quantity of marble was needed just for some
supercial tinkering and tampering with the Tajmahal. Even otherwise Shahjahan
could never hope to build a fabulous Tajmahal by abject dependence for marble on
a non cooperative Jaisingh.
EUROPEAN VISITOR'S ACCOUNTS
25. Tavernier, a French jeweller has recorded in his travel memoirs that
Shahjahan purposely buried Mumtaz near the Taz-i-Makan (i.e.,`The Taj building')
where foriegners used to come as they do even today so that the world may
admire. He also adds that the cost of the scaffolding was more than that of the
entire work. The work that Shahjahan commissioned in the Tejomahalaya Shiva
temple was plundering at the costly fixtures inside it, uprooting the Shiva
idols, planting the centotaphs in their place on two stories, inscribing the
koran along the arches and walling up six of the seven stories of the Taj. It
was this plunder, desecrating and plunderring of the rooms which took 22 years.
26. Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra recorded in 1632 (within only a year
of Mumtaz's death) that `the places of note in and around Agra, included
Taj-e-Mahal' s tomb, gardens and bazaars'.He, therefore, confirms that that the
Tajmahal had been a noteworthy building even before Shahjahan.
27. De Laet, a Dutch official has listed Mansingh's palace about a mile from
Agra fort, as an outstanding building of pre shahjahan's time. Shahjahan's court
chronicle, the Badshahnama records, Mumtaz's burial in the same Mansingh's
palace.
28. Bernier, a contemporary French visitor has noted that non muslim's were
barred entry into the basement (at the time when Shahjahan requisitioned
Mansingh's palace) which contained a dazzling light. Obviously, he reffered to
the silver doors, gold railing, the gem studded lattice and strings of pearl
hanging over Shiva's idol. Shahjahan comandeered the building to grab all the
wealth, making Mumtaz's death a convineant pretext.
29. Johan Albert Mandelslo, who describes life in agra in 1638 (only 7 years
after mumtaz's death) in detail (in his `Voyages and Travels to West-Indies' ,
published by John Starkey and John Basset, London), makes no mention of the
Tajmahal being under constuction though it is commonly erringly asserted or
assumed that the Taj was being built from 1631 to 1653.
SANSKIRT INSCRIPTION
30. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the conclusion that the Taj originated
as a Shiva temple. Wrongly termed as the Bateshwar inscription (currently
preserved on the top floor of the Lucknow museum), it refers to the raising of a
"crystal white Shiva temple so alluring that Lord Shiva once enshrined in it
decided never to return to Mount Kailash his usual abode". That inscription
dated 1155 A.D. was removed from the Tajmahal garden at Shahjahan's orders.
Historicians and Archeaologists have blundered in terming the insription the `Bateshwar
inscription' when the record doesn't say that it was found by Bateshwar. It
ought, in fact, to be called `The Tejomahalaya inscription' because it was
originally installed in the Taj garden before it was uprooted and cast away at
Shahjahan's command.
A clue to the tampering by Shahjahan is found on pages 216-217, vol. 4, of
Archealogiical Survey of India Reports (published 1874) stating that a "great
square black balistic pillar which, with the base and capital of another
pillar....now in the grounds of Agra,...it is well known, once stood in the
garden of Tajmahal".
MISSING ELEPHANTS
31. Far from the building of the Taj, Shahjahan disfigured it with black koranic
lettering and heavily robbed it of its Sanskrit inscription, several idols and
two huge stone elephants extending their trunks in a welcome arch over the
gateway where visitors these days buy entry tickets. An Englishman, Thomas
Twinning, records (pg.191 of his book "Travels in India A Hundred Years ago")
that in November 1794 "I arrived at the high walls which enclose the Taj-e-Mahal
and its circumjacent buildings. I here got out of the palanquine and.....mounted
a short flight of steps leading to a beautiful portal which formed the centre of
this side of the `COURT OF ELEPHANTS" as the great area was called."
KORANIC PATCHES
32. The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14 chapters of the Koran but nowhere is
there even the slightest or the remotest allusion in that Islamic overwriting to
Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj. Had Shahjahan been the builder he would have
said so in so many words before beginning to quote Koran.
33. That Shahjahan, far from building the marble Taj, only disfigured it with
black lettering is mentioned by the inscriber Amanat Khan Shirazi himself in an
inscription on the building. A close scrutiny of the Koranic lettering reveals
that they are grafts patched up with bits of variegated stone on an ancient
Shiva temple.
CARBON 14 TEST
34. A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the carbon
14 test by an American Laboratory, has revealed that the door to be 300 years
older than Shahjahan,since the doors of the Taj, broken open by Muslim invaders
repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to b replaced from time to time.
The Taj edifice is much more older. It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost 500
years anterior to Shahjahan.
ARCHITECHTURAL EVIDENCE
35. Well known Western authorities on architechture like E.B.Havell, Mrs.Kenoyer
and Sir W.W.Hunterhave gone on record to say that the TajMahal is built in the
Hindu temple style. Havell points out the ground plan of the ancient Hindu
Chandi Seva Temple in Java is identical with that of the Taj.
36. A central dome with cupolas at its four corners is a universal feature of
Hindu temples.
37. The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style. They
are used as lamp towers during night and watch towers during the day. Such
towers serve to demarcate the holy precincts. Hindu wedding altars and the altar
set up for God Satyanarayan worship have pillars raised at the four corners.
38. The octagonal shape of the Tajmahal has a special Hindu significance because
Hindus alone have special names for the eight directions, and celestial guards
assigned to them. The pinnacle points to the heaven while the foundation
signifies to the nether world. Hindu forts, cities, palaces and temples genrally
have an octagonal layout or some octagonal features so that together with the
pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the ten directions in which the king
or God holds sway, according to Hindu belief.
39. The Tajmahal has a trident pinncle over the dome. A full scale of the
trident pinnacle is inlaid in the red stone courtyard to the east of the Taj.
The central shaft of the trident depicts a "Kalash" (sacred pot) holding two
bent mango leaves and a coconut. This is a sacred Hindu motif. Identical
pinnacles have been seen over Hindu and Buddhist temples in the Himalayan
region. Tridents are also depicted against a red lotus background at the apex of
the stately marble arched entrances on all four sides of the Taj. People fondly
but mistakenly believed all these centuries that the Taj pinnacle depicts a
Islamic cresent and star was a lighting conductor installed by the British
rulers in India. Contrarily, the pinnacle is a marvel of Hindu metallurgy since
the pinnacle made of non rusting alloy, is also perhaps a lightning deflector.
That the pinnacle of the replica is drawn in the eastern courtyard is
significant because the east is of special importance to the Hindus, as the
direction in which the sun rises. The pinnacle on the dome has the word `Allah'
on it after capture. The pinnacle figure on the ground does not have the word
Allah.
INCONSISTENCIES
40. The two buildings which face the marble Taj from the east and west are
identical in design, size and shape and yet the eastern building is explained
away by Islamic tradition, as a community hall while the western building is
claimed to be a mosque. How could buildings meant for radically different
purposes be identical? This proves that the western building was put to use as a
mosque after seizure of the Taj property by Shahjahan. Curiously enough the
building being explained away as a mosque has no minaret. They form a pair af
reception pavilions of the Tejomahalaya temple palace.
41. A few yards away from the same flank is the Nakkar Khana alias DrumHouse
which is a intolerable incongruity for Islam. The proximity of the Drum House
indicates that the western annex was not originally a mosque. Contrarily a drum
house is a neccesity in a Hindu temple or palace because Hindu chores,in the
morning and evening, begin to the sweet strains of music.
42. The embossed patterns on the marble exterior of the centotaph chamber wall
are foilage of the conch shell design and the Hindu letter "OM". The octagonally
laid marble lattices inside the centotaph chamber depict pink lotuses on their
top railing. The Lotus, the conch and the OM are the sacred motifs associated
with the Hindu deities and temples.
43. The spot occupied by Mumtaz's centotaph was formerly occupied by the Hindu
Teja Linga a lithic representation of Lord Shiva. Around it are five
perambulatory passages. Perambulation could be done around the marble lattice or
through the spacious marble chambers surrounding the centotaph chamber, and in
the open over the marble platform. It is also customary for the Hindus to have
apertures along the perambulatory passage, overlooking the deity. Such apertures
exist in the perambulatories in the Tajmahal.
44. The sanctom sanctorum in the Taj has silver doors and gold railings as Hindu
temples have. It also had nets of pearl and gems stuffed in the marble lattices.
It was the lure of this wealth which made Shahjahan commandeer the Taj from a
helpless vassal Jaisingh, the then ruler of Jaipur.
45. Peter Mundy, a Englishman records (in 1632, within a year of Mumtaz's death)
having seen a gem studded gold railing around her tomb. Had the Taj been under
construction for 22 years, a costly gold railing would not have been noticed by
Peter mundy within a year of Mumtaz's death. Such costl fixtures are installed
in a building only after it is ready for use. This indicates that Mumtaz's
centotaph was grafted in place of the Shivalinga in the centre of the gold
railings. Subsequently the gold railings, silver doors, nets of pearls, gem
fillings etc. were all carried away to Shahjahan's treasury. The seizure of the
Taj thus constituted an act of highhanded Moghul robery causing a big row
between Shahjahan and Jaisingh.
46. In the marble flooring around Mumtaz's centotaph may be seen tiny mosaic
patches. Those patches indicate the spots where the support for the gold
railings were embedded in the floor. They indicate a rectangular fencing.
47. Above Mumtaz's centotaph hangs a chain by which now hangs a lamp. Before
capture by Shahjahan the chain used to hold a water pitcher from which water
used to drip on the Shivalinga.
48. It is this earlier Hindu tradition in the Tajmahal which gave the Islamic
myth of Shahjahan's love tear dropping on Mumtaz's tomb on the full moon day of
the winter eve.
TREASURY WELL
49. Between the so-called mosque and the drum house is a multistoried octagonal
well with a flight of stairs reaching down to the water level. This is a
traditional treasury well in Hindu temple palaces. Treasure chests used to be
kept in the lower apartments while treasury personnel had their offices in the
upper chambers. The circular stairs made it difficult for intruders to reach
down to the treasury or to escape with it undetected or unpursued. In case the
premises had to be surrendered to a besieging enemy the treasure could be pushed
into the well to remain hidden from the conquerer and remain safe for salvaging
if the place was reconquered. Such an elaborate multistoried well is superflous
for a mere mausoleum. Such a grand, gigantic well is unneccesary for a tomb.
BURIAL DATE UNKNOWN
50. Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal as a wonder mausoleum, history
would have recorded a specific date on which she was ceremoniously buried in the
Taj Mahal. No such date is ever mentioned. This important missing detail
decisively exposes the falsity of the Tajmahal legend.
51. Even the year of Mumtaz's death is unknown. It is variously speculated to be
1629, 1630, 1631 or 1632. Had she deserved a fabulous burial, as is claimed, the
date of her death had not been a matter of much speculation. In an harem teeming
with 5000 women it was difficult to keep track of dates of death. Apparently the
date of Mumtaz's death was so insignificant an event, as not to merit any
special notice. Who would then build a Taj for her burial?
BASELESS LOVE STORIES
52. Stories of Shahjahan's exclusive infatuation for Mumtaz's are concoctions.
They have no basis in history nor has any book ever written on their fancied
love affairs. Those stories have been invented as an afterthought to make
Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj look plausible.
COST
53. The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in Shahjahan's court papers because
Shahjahan never built the Tajmahal. That is why wild estimates of the cost by
gullible writers have ranged from 4 million to 91.7 million rupees.
PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION
54. Likewise the period of construction has been guessed to be anywhere between
10 years and 22 years. There would have not been any scope for guesswork had the
building construction been on record in the court papers.
ARCHITECTS
55. The designer of the Tajmahal is also variously mentioned as Essa Effendy, a
Persian or Turk, or Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman, Austin deBordeaux, or
Geronimo Veroneo, an Italian, or Shahjahan himself.
RECORDS DON'T EXIST
56. Twenty thousand labourers are supposed to have worked for 22 years during
Shahjahan's reign in building the Tajmahal. Had this been true, there should
have been available in Shahjahan's court papers design drawings, heaps of labour
muster rolls, daily expenditure sheets, bills and receipts of material ordered,
and commisioning orders. There is not even a scrap of paper of this kind.
57. It is, therefore, court flatterers,blunderi ng historians, somnolent
archeologists, fiction writers, senile poets, careless tourists officials and
erring guides who are responsible for hustling the world into believing in
Shahjahan's mythical authorship of the Taj.
58. Description of the gardens around the Taj of Shahjahan's time mention Ketaki,
Jai, Jui, Champa, Maulashree, Harshringar and Bel. All these are plants whose
flowers or leaves are used in the worship of Hindu deities. Bel leaves are
exclusively used in Lord Shiva's worship. A graveyard is planted only with shady
trees because the idea of using fruit and flower from plants in a cemetary is
abhorrent to human conscience. The presence of Bel and other flower plants in
the Taj garden is proof of its having been a Shiva temple before seizure by
Shahjahan.
59. Hindu temples are often built on river banks and sea beaches. The Taj is one
such built on the bank of the Yamuna river an ideal location for a Shiva temple.
60. Prophet Mohammad has ordained that the burial spot of a muslim should be
inconspicous and must not be marked by even a single tombstone. In flagrant
violation of this, the Tajamhal has one grave in the basement and another in the
first floor chamber both ascribed to Mumtaz. Those two centotaphs were infact
erected by Shahjahan to bury the two tier Shivalingas that were consecrated in
the Taj. It is customary for Hindus to install two Shivalingas one over the
other in two stories as may be seen in the Mahankaleshwar temple in Ujjain and
the Somnath temple raised by Ahilyabai in Somnath Pattan.
61. The Tajmahal has identical entrance arches on all four sides. This is a
typical Hindu building style known as Chaturmukhi, i.e.,four faced.
THE HINDU DOME
62. The Tajmahal has a reverberating dome. Such a dome is an absurdity for a
tomb which must ensure peace and silence. Contrarily reverberating domes are a
neccesity in Hindu temples because they create an ecstatic dinmultiplying and
magnifying the sound of bells, drums and pipes accompanying the worship of Hindu
deities.
63. The Tajmahal dome bears a lotus cap. Original Islamic domes have a bald top
as is exemplified by the Pakistan Embassy in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, and the
domes in the Pakistan's newly built capital Islamabad.
64. The Tajmahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an Islamic building it
should have faced the west.
TOMB IS THE GRAVE,NOT THE BUILDING
65. A widespread misunderstanding has resulted in mistaking the building for the
grave.Invading Islam raised graves in captured buildings in every country it
overran. Therefore, hereafter people must learn not to confound the building
with the grave mounds which are grafts in conquered buildings. This is true of
the Tajmahal too. One may therefore admit (for arguments sake) that Mumtaz lies
buried inside the Taj. But that should not be construed to mean that the Taj was
raised over Mumtaz's grave.
66. The Taj is a seven storied building. Prince Aurangzeb also mentions this in
his letter to Shahjahan. The marble edifice comprises four stories including the
lone, tall circular hall inside the top, and the lone chamber in the basement.
In between are two floors each containing 12 to 15 palatial rooms. Below the
marble plinth reaching down to the river at the rear are two more stories in red
stone. They may be seen from the river bank. The seventh storey must be below
the ground (river) level since every ancient Hindu building had a subterranian
storey.
67. Immediately bellow the marble plinth on the river flank are 22 rooms in red
stone with their ventilators all walled up by Shahjahan. Those rooms, made
uninhibitably by Shahjahan, are kept locked by Archealogy Department of India.
The lay visitor is kept in the dark about them. Those 22 rooms still bear
ancient Hindu paint on their walls and ceilings. On their side is a nearly 33
feet long corridor. There are two door frames one at either end ofthe corridor.
But those doors are intriguingly sealed with brick and lime.
68. Apparently those doorways originally sealed by Shahjahan have been since
unsealed and again walled up several times. In 1934 a resident of Delhi took a
peep inside from an opening in the upper part of the doorway. To his dismay he
saw huge hall inside. It contained many statues huddled around a central
beheaded image of Lord Shiva. It could be that, in there, are Sanskrit
inscriptions too. All the seven stories of the Tajmahal need to be unsealed and
scoured to ascertain what evidence they may be hiding in the form of Hindu
images, Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures, coins and utensils.
69. Apart from Hindu images hidden in the sealed stories it is also learnt that
Hindu images are also stored in the massive walls of the Taj. Between 1959 and
1962 when Mr. S.R. Rao was the Archealogical Superintendent in Agra, he happened
to notice a deep and wide crack in the wall of the central octagonal chamber of
the Taj. When a part of the wall was dismantled to study the crack out popped
two or three marble images. The matter was hushed up and the images were
reburied where they had been embedded at Shahjahan's behest. Confirmation of
this has been obtained from several sources. It was only when I began my
investigation into the antecedents of the Taj I came across the above
information which had remained a forgotten secret. What better proof is needed
of the Temple origin of the Tajmahal? Its walls and sealed chambers still hide
in Hindu idols that were consecrated in it before Shahjahan's seizure of the
Taj.
PRE-SHAHJAHAN REFERENCES TO THE TAJ
70. Apparently the Taj as a central palace seems to have an chequered history.
The Taj was perhaps desecrated and looted by every Muslim invader from Mohammad
Ghazni onwards but passing into Hindu hands off and on, the sanctity of the Taj
as a Shiva temple continued to be revived after every muslim onslaught.
Shahjahan was the last muslim to desecrate the Tajmahal alias Tejomahalay.
71. Vincent Smith records in his book titled `Akbar the Great Moghul' that
`Babur's turbulent life came to an end in his garden palace in Agra in 1630'.
That palace was none other than the Tajmahal. 72. Babur's daughter Gulbadan
Begum in her chronicle titled `Humayun Nama' refers to the Taj as the Mystic
House.
73. Babur himself refers to the Taj in his memoirs as the palace captured by
Ibrahim Lodi containing a central octagonal chamber and having pillars on the
four sides. All these historical references allude to the Taj 100 years before
Shahjahan.
74. The Tajmahal precincts extend to several hundred yards in all directions.
Across the river are ruins of the annexes of the Taj, the bathing ghats and a
jetty for the ferry boat. In the Victoria gardens outside covered with creepers
is the long spur of the ancient outer wall ending in a octagonal red stone
tower. Such extensive grounds all magnificently done up, are a superfluity for a
grave.
75. Had the Taj been specially built to bury Mumtaz, it should not have been
cluttered with other graves. But the Taj premises contain several graves atleast
in its eastern and southern pavilions.
76. In the southern flank, on the other side of the Tajganj gate are buried in
identical pavilions queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri Begum and a maid
Satunnisa Khanum. Such parity burial can be justified only if the queens had
been demoted or the maid promoted. But since Shahjahan had commandeered (not
built) the Taj, he reduced it general to a muslim cemetary as was the habit of
all his Islamic predeccssors, and buried a queen in a vacant pavillion and a
maid in another idenitcal pavilion.
77. Shahjahan was married to several other women before and after Mumtaz. She,
therefore, deserved no special consideration in having a wonder mausoleum built
for her.
78. Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she did not qualify for a fairyland
burial.
79. Mumtaz died in Burhanpur which is about 600 miles from Agra. Her grave there
is intact. Therefore ,the centotaphs raised in stories of the Taj in her name
seem to be fakes hiding in Hindu Shiva emblems.
80. Shahjahan seems to have simulated Mumtaz's burial in Agra to find a pretext
to surround the temple palace with his fierce and fanatic troops and remove all
the costly fixtures in his treasury. This finds confirmation in the vague noting
in the Badshahnama which says that the Mumtaz's (exhumed) body was brought to
Agra from Burhanpur and buried `next year'. An official term would not use a
nebulous term unless it is to hide some thing.
81. A pertinent consideration is that a Shahjahan who did not build any palaces
for Mumtaz while she was alive, would not build a fabulous mausoleum for a
corpse which was no longer kicking or clicking.
82. Another factor is that Mumtaz died within two or three years of Shahjahan
becoming an emperor. Could he amass so much superflous wealth in that short span
as to squander it on a wonder mausoleum?
83. While Shahjahan's special attachment to Mumtaz is nowhere recorded in
history his amorous affairs with many other ladies from maids to mannequins
including his own daughter Jahanara, find special attention in accounts of
Shahjahan's reign. Would Shahjahan shower his hard earned wealth on Mumtaz's
corpse?
84. Shahjahan was a stingy, usurious monarch. He came to throne murdering all
his rivals. He was not therefore, the doting spendthrift that he is made out to
be.
85. A Shahjahan disconsolate on Mumtaz's death is suddenly credited with a
resolve to build the Taj. This is a psychological incongruity. Grief is a
disabling, incapacitating emotion.
86. A infatuated Shahjahan is supposed to have raised the Taj over the dead
Mumtaz, but carnal, physical sexual love is again a incapacitating emotion. A
womaniser is ipso facto incapable of any constructive activity. When carnal love
becomes uncontrollable the person either murders somebody or commits suicide. He
cannot raise a Tajmahal. A building like the Taj invariably originates in an
ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to one's mother and mother country or
power and glory.
87. Early in the year 1973, chance digging in the garden in front of the Taj
revealed another set of fountains about six feet below the present fountains.
This proved two things. Firstly, the subterranean fountains were there before
Shahjahan laid the surface fountains. And secondly that those fountains are
aligned to the Taj that edifice too is of pre Shahjahan origin. Apparently the
garden and its fountains had sunk from annual monsoon flooding and lack of
maintenance for centuries during the Islamic rule.
89. The stately rooms on the upper floor of the Tajmahal have been striped of
their marble mosaic by Shahjahan to obtain matching marble for raising fake tomb
stones inside the Taj premises at several places. Contrasting with the rich
finished marble ground floor rooms the striping of the marble mosaic covering
the lower half of the walls and flooring of the upper storey have given those
rooms a naked, robbed look. Since no visitors are allowed entry to the upper
storey this despoilation by Shahjahan has remained a well guarded secret. There
is no reason why Shahjahan's loot of the upper floor marble should continue to
be hidden from the public even after 200 years of termination of Moghul rule.
90. Bernier, the French traveller has recorded that no non muslim was allowed
entry into the secret nether chambers of the Taj because there are some dazzling
fixtures there. Had those been installed by Shahjahan they should have been
shown the public as a matter of pride. But since it was commandeered Hindu
wealth which Shahjahan wanted to remove to his treasury, he didn't want the
public to know about it.
91. The approach to Taj is dotted with hillocks raised with earth dugout from
foundation trenches. The hillocks served as outer defences of the Taj building
complex. Raising such hillocks from foundation earth, is a common Hindu device
of hoary origin. Nearby Bharatpur provides a graphic parallel.
Peter Mundy has recorded that Shahjahan employed thousands of labourers to level
some of those hillocks. This is a graphic proof of the Tajmahal existing before
Shahjahan.
93. At the backside of the river bank is a Hindu crematorium, several palaces,
Shiva temples and bathings of ancient origin. Had Shahjahan built the Tajmahal,
he would have destroyed the Hindu features.
94. The story that Shahjahan wanted to build a Black marble Taj across the
river, is another motivated myth. The ruins dotting the other side of the river
are those of Hindu structures demolished during muslim invasions and not the
plinth of another Tajmahal. Shahjahan who did not even build the white Tajmahal
would hardly ever think of building a black marble Taj. He was so miserly that
he forced labourers to work gratis even in the superficial tampering neccesary
to make a Hindu temple serve as a Muslim tomb.
95. The marble that Shahjahan used for grafting Koranic lettering in the Taj is
of a pale white shade while the rest of the Taj is built of a marble with rich
yellow tint. This disparity is proof of the Koranic extracts being a
superimposition.
96. Though imaginative attempts have been made by some historians to foist some
fictitious name on history as the designer of the Taj others more imaginative
have credited Shajahan himself with superb architechtural proficiency and
artistic talent which could easily concieve and plan the Taj even in acute
bereavment. Such people betray gross ignorance of history in as much as Shajahan
was a cruel tyrant ,a great womaniser and a drug and drink addict.
97. Fanciful accounts about Shahjahan commisioning the Taj are all confused.
Some asserted that Shahjahan ordered building drawing from all over the world
and chose one from among them. Others assert that a man at hand was ordered to
design a mausoleum amd his design was approved. Had any of those versions been
true Shahjahan's court papers should have had thousands of drawings concerning
the Taj. But there is not even a single drawing. This is yet another clinching
proof that Shahjahan did not commision the Taj.
98. The Tajmahal is surrounded by huge mansions which indicate that several
battles have been waged around the Taj several times.
99. At the south east corner of the Taj is an ancient royal cattle house. Cows
attached to the Tejomahalay temple used to reared there. A cowshed is an
incongruity in an Islamic tomb.
100. Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red stone annexes.
These are superflous for a mausoleum.
101. The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms. Residential
accomodation on such a stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.
102. The neighbouring Tajganj township's massive protective wall also encloses
the Tajmahal temple palace complex. This is a clear indication that the
Tejomahalay temple palace was part and parcel of the township. A street of that
township leads straight into the Tajmahal. The Tajganj gate is aligned in a
perfect straight line to the octagonal red stone garden gate and the stately
entrance arch of the Tajmahal. The Tajganj gate besides being central to the Taj
temple complex, is also put on a pedestal. The western gate by which the
visitors enter the Taj complex is a camparatively minor gateway. It has become
the entry gate for most visitors today because the railway station and the bus
station are on that side.
103. The Tajmahal has pleasure pavillions which a tomb would never have.
104. A tiny mirror glass in a gallery of the Red Fort in Agra reflects the Taj
mahal. Shahjahan is said to have spent his last eight years of life as a
prisoner in that gallery peering at the reflected Tajmahal and sighing in the
name of Mumtaz. This myth is a blend of many falsehoods. Firstly,old Shajahan
was held prisoner by his son Aurangzeb in the basement storey in the Fort and
not in an open,fashionable upper storey. Secondly, the glass piece was fixed in
the 1930's by Insha Allah Khan, a peon of the archaelogy dept.just to illustrate
to the visitors how in ancient times the entire apartment used to scintillate
with tiny mirror pieces reflecting the Tejomahalay temple a thousand fold.
Thirdly, a old decrepit Shahjahan with pain in his joints and cataract in his
eyes, would not spend his day craning his neck at an awkward angle to peer into
a tiny glass piece with bedimmed eyesight when he could as well his face around
and have full,direct view of the Tjamahal itself. But the general public is so
gullible as to gulp all such prattle of wily, unscrupulous guides.
105. That the Tajmahal dome has hundreds of iron rings sticking out of its
exterior is a feature rarely noticed. These are made to hold Hindu earthen oil
lamps for temple illumination.
106. Those putting implicit faith in Shahjahan authorship of the Taj have been
imagining Shahjahan-Mumtaz to be a soft hearted romantic pair like Romeo and
Juliet. But contemporary accounts speak of Shahjahan as a hard hearted ruler who
was constantly egged on to acts of tyranny and cruelty, by Mumtaz.
107. School and College history carry the myth that Shahjahan reign was a golden
period in which there was peace and plenty and that Shahjahan commisioned many
buildings and patronized literature. This is pure fabrication. Shahjahan did not
commision even a single building as we have illustrated by a detailed analysis
of the Tajmahal legend. Shahjahn had to enrage in 48 military campaigns during a
reign of nearly 30 years which proves that his was not a era of peace and
plenty.
108. The interior of the dome rising over Mumtaz's centotaph has a
representation of Sun and cobras drawn in gold. Hindu warriors trace their
origin to the Sun. For an Islamic mausoleum the Sun is redundant. Cobras are
always associated with Lord Shiva.
FORGED DOCUMENTS
109. The muslim caretakers of the tomb in the Tajmahal used to possess a
document which they styled as "Tarikh-i-Tajmahal" . Historian H.G. Keene has
branded it as `a document of doubtful authenticity' . Keene was uncannily right
since we have seen that Shahjahan not being the creator of the Tajmahal any
document which credits Shahjahn with the Tajmahal, must be an outright forgery.
Even that forged document is reported to have been smuggled out of Pakistan.
Besides such forged documents there are whole chronicles on the Taj which are
pure concoctions.
110. There is lot of sophistry and casuistry or atleast confused thinking
associated with the Taj even in the minds of proffesional historians,
archaelogists and architects. At the outset they assert that the Taj is entirely
Muslim in design. But when it is pointed out that its lotus capped dome and the
four corner pillars etc. are all entirely Hindu those worthies shift ground and
argue that that was probably because the workmen were Hindu and were to
introduce their own patterns. Both these arguments are wrong because Muslim
accounts claim the designers to be Muslim,and the workers invariably carry out
the employer's dictates.
The Taj is only a typical illustration of how all historic buildings and
townships from Kashmir to Cape Comorin though of Hindu origin have been ascribed
to this or that Muslim ruler or courtier.
It is hoped that people the world over who study Indian history will awaken to
this new finding and revise their erstwhile beliefs.
Those interested in an indepth study of the above and many other revolutionary
rebuttals may read this author's other research books.
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