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

[Dr. Jai Maharaj]

Part 2 of 2

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
costly 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 unnecessary 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,blundering 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 Shiv'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 Shiv 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 Shiv 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 Shiv. 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 Shiv 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 identical 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 Shiv 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.

["92." appears to be missing in this transmission.]

93. At the backside of the river bank is a Hindu crematorium, several
palaces, Shiv 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 Shiv.

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 in-depth study of the above and many other
revolutionary rebuttals may read this author's other research books.

Tajmahal - The True Story authored by Shri P. N. Oak can be ordered from:

A. Ghosh Publisher
5720 W. Little York 216
Houston, Texas 77091
USA

The above article is available at the Global Hindu Electronic Network
sponsored web site, The Hindu Universe located at
http://www.hindunet.org/

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://bit.do/jaimaharaj

o o o

o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational
purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post may
not have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are
not necessarily those of the poster who may or may not have read the
article. FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted material
the use of which may or may not have been specifically authorized by the
copyright owner. This material is being made available in efforts to
advance the understanding of environmental, political, human rights,
economic, democratic, scientific, social, and cultural, etc., issues. It
is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted
material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In
accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest
in receiving the included information for research, comment, discussion
and educational purposes by subscribing to USENET newsgroups or visiting
web sites. For more information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml

If you wish to use copyrighted material from this article for purposes of
your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the
copyright owner.

Since newsgroup posts are being removed by forgery by one or more net
terrorists, this post may be reposted several times.