True story - 'Taj Mahal' is Tejomahalay - Part 1 of 2

[Dr. Jai Maharaj]

Part 1 of 2

Two posts below:

First a post from 2005:

WORLD MOVEMENT TO UNMASK THE TRUE STORY OF TAJ MAHAL

Forwarded message from madhukar...@gmail.com

http://www.hinduvoice.net/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?flavor=archive&id=20050601212210&list=NL

Wednesday, June 1, 2005

For last 58 years the so-called democratic governments of India have
cleverly managed to keep the entire nation and the world at large totally
ignorant about the true story of Taj Mahal which happens to be not only a
national but also an international heritage site and a landmark of human
history.

This "hiding of truth" for so long has been entirely for the selfish
political gains by the ruling parties. This sort of government approach
raises a doubt in the mind of a common citizen whether for these
governments the national motto of "Styamev Jayate" is only for room
decoration.

It is high time now that a strong movement starts in the country as well
as throughout the world to compel the Indian Govt. to take cognizance of
the tons of most scientific proofs put forth during last 25 years by the
various renowned research institutions and scholars about Taj Mahal.

All the truth-loving people throughout the world should view the
following material which is readily available on the Internet and
enlighten themselves about the real facts about the Taj Mahal:

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/an_architect_looks_at-the%20taj_mahal_legend.htm

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/an_architect_looks_at_the_taj_mahal_legend.htm

(An Architect Looks at the Taj Mahal Legend

By Professor Marvin H. Mills, Pratt Institute, New York)

2)

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic-temple.htm

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic-temple.htm

Was the Taj Mahal a Vedic Temple? The photographic Evidence

By Professor Stephen Knapp, UK

3)

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/letter_of%20_aurangzeb.htm

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/letter_of_aurangzeb.htm

The Letter of Aurangzeb

4)

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/badshahnama.htm

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/badsh ahnama.htm

Badshahanama, the history of Shah Jahan

5)

http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/taj_oak.html

http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/taj_oak.html

The Tajmahal is Tejomahalay - A Hindu Temple

By Professor P. N. Oak

6)

http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/godbole_taj1.html

http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/godbole_taj1.html

Taj Mahal and the Great British Conspiracy: Part I

7)

http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/godbole_taj2.html

http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/godbole_taj2.html

Taj Mahal and the Great British Conspiracy: Part II)

8)

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/question_of_the_%20taj_mahal.htm

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/question_of_the_taj_mahal.htm

The question of Taj Mahal

By P. S. Bhat and A. L. Athawale

9)

http://www.thetajmahal.net/

http://www.thetajmahal.net

These articles by experts of international repute in their respective
fields contain tons of scientific proofs which prove that the Taj Mahal
structure was constructed at least several hundred years before Shah
Jahan and one cannot even remotely think that it was built by Shah Jahan.
He acquired it from the Rajput Raja Mansingh and converted it into a
burial place for the queen Mumtaz.

The Action Plan:

Indian Govt. should be requested/compelled to immediately appoint a panel
of international experts to go through the evidence gathered so for about
the existence of Taj Mahal as Tejomahalaya several centuries before Shah
Jahan and announce the findings of this panel to the entire world.

When, for the sake of scientific research and to unmask the hidden truth,
most difficult task of opening up of even the tombs inside the Egyptian
Pyramids has already been completed, simple removal of the joining mortar
of the covering marble slabs to observe the interior of the 1000 and odd
sealed rooms inside Taj Mahal and the host of items stored therein would
be an easy job.

The Indian Govt. is likely to give 1000 and 1 excuses not to allow even
this simple work to be undertaken as they are strongly against the truth
coming out, but a strong public movement should pierce through their
resistance and compel them to do the needful in the interest of the
country and the world.

"Satyamev Jayate" (Only The Truth Triumphs)

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End of forwarded message

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

Next a post from 2004:

The Taj Mahal Is Tejomahalay

A Hindu Temple

By P. N. Oak

Probably there is no one who has been duped at least once in a lifetime.
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 Shiv Temple known
as Tejo-Mahalaya which the 5th generation moghul emperor Shahjahan
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-storied 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 Shiv 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 Tejo-Mahalay
signifying a Shiv 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 Shiv
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 Shiv 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 08 -- a number sacred in Hindu Temple
tradition.

13. There are persons who are connected with the repair and the
maintenance of the Taj who have seen the ancient sacred Shiv 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 Shiv
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 Shiv, 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
Shiv worship. Its orthodox residents have through ages continued the
tradition of worshipping at five Shiv 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 Shiv temples viz., Balkeshwar, Prithvinath,
Manakameshwar and Rajarajeshwar. They had lost track of the fifth Shiv
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 Shiv
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
Shiv 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-ul-Zamani 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-Akbarabadi' (edited by Said Ahmed, Agra,
1931, page 43, footnote 2). In that letter Aurangzeb records in 1652 CE
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 'Kapad-
Dwara' 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 scaffold- ing
was more than that of the entire work. The work that Shahjahan
commissioned in the Tejomahalaya Shiv temple was plundering at the costly
fixtures inside it, uprooting the Shiv 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 Shiv'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.

SANSKRIT INSCRIPTION

30. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the conclusion that the Taj
originated as a Shiv 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 Shiv temple so alluring that Lord Shiv
once enshrined in it decided never to return to Mount Kailash -- his
usual abode". That inscription dated 1155 CE 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 Shiv 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 Shiv. 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.

Continues in Part 2