Taj Mahal is a Hindu Temple Tejo Mahalaya
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Taj Mahal was Tejo Mahalaya, claims website
New Delhi, Dec. 25: It is more than often that the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh, its offshoot the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and the
notorious youth wing, the Bajrang Dal, have been professing and
believing that the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the world is
actually a temple.
They trash the story that it is a mausoleum built by emperor Shah Jahan
in memory of his beloved queen Mumtaz Mahal and insist that actually it
has been built upon the debris of a temple called the Tejo Mahalaya,
after the temple was - no prize for guessing - destroyed by
the “tyrannical” Muslim rulers.
It is slightly wondrous that a website called
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/ in its sublink “Taj Mahal - a
Hindu Temple-Palace” says the same thing and with greater zeal. It
furnishes every bit of proof found under the sun and states that there
are “109 proofs and logical points which tell us that the structure
known as the Taj Mahal is actually Tejo Mahalaya”.
However, in the actual listing, there are only 108 proofs displayed.
The site says that the most valuable evidence of all that Tejo Mahalaya
is not an Islamic building is in the Badshahnama which contains the
history of the first 20 years of Shah Jahan’s reign.
It says, “the writer Abdul Hamid has stated that Taj Mahal is a temple-
palace taken from Jaipur’s Maharaja Jai Singh and the building was
known as Raja Man Singh’s palace. This by itself is enough proof to
state that Tejo Mahalaya is a Hindu structure captured, plundered and
converted to a mausoleum by Shah Jahan and his henchmen.” The venom is
obvious, the agenda is apparent, and the intent highly suspect.
No where does the site mention the names of the RSS, the VHP or the
Bajrang Dal but goes on to describe in choicest terms ‘Islamic tyranny
and perversion’ with striking similarity to the canards spread by the
Sangh Parivar.
The site reproduces a letter by Aurangazeb to Shah Jahan in Persian in
which apparently the former has unintentionally revealed the true
identity of the Taj Mahal as a Hindu Temple.
According to satyamevajayate, these proofs in favour of the Taj being a
Hindu temple have been provided by a writer called P N Oak.
Taj Mahal - A Hindu Temple-Palace
By now you all know through my previous articles, the irrefutable facts
and deductive logic which prove that Islam is evil right at its very
foundation. It is not a religion, but a means to legalize rape, murder,
loot and destruction! Given what I have shown in these previous weeks,
no one should have the slightest doubt that the true followers of such
a "religion" can only be called dacoits!
These dacoits have looted and raped many countries, but no country can
tell a bloodier tale of muslim oppression than India! The muslim
dacoits started their rule over India in 712 A.D. with the invasion of
Mohammed Qasem and looking at the present situation of our country it
still continues on today!
During their rule they looted and destroyed hundereds of thousands of
Hindu temples. Aurangzeb himself destroyed 10,000 Hindu temples during
his reign! Some of the larger temples were converted into mosques or
other Islamic structures. Ram Janmbhoomi(at Ayodhya) and Krishna Temple
(at Mathura) are just two examples. Many others exist!
The most evident of such structures is Taj Mahal--a structure
supposedly devoted to carnal love by the "great" moghul king Shah Jahan
to his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. Please keep in my mind that this is
the same Shah Jahan who had a harem of 5,000 women and the same Shah
Jahan who had a incestuous relationship with his daughter justifing it
by saying, 'a gardner has every right to taste the fruit he has
planted'! Is such a person even capable of imagning such a wondrous
structure as the Taj Mahal let alone be the architect of it?
The answer is no. It cannot be. And it isn't as has been proven. The
Taj Mahal is as much a Islamic structure as is mathematics a muslim
discovery! The famous historian Shri P.N. Oak has proven that Taj Mahal
is actually Tejo Mahalaya-- a shiv temple-palace. His work was
published in 1965 in the book, Taj Mahal - The True Story. However, we
have not heard much about it because it was banned by the corrupt and
power crazed Congress government of Bharat who did not want to alienate
their precious vote bank--the muslims.
After reading Shri Oak's work which provides more than adequate
evidence to prove that Taj Mahal is indeed Tejo Mahalaya, one has to
wonder if the government of Bharat has been full of traitors for the
past 50 years! Because to ban such a book which states only the truth
is surely a crime against our great nation of Bharat.
The most valuable evidence of all that Tejo Mahalaya is not an Islamic
building is in the Badshahnama which contains the history of the first
twenty years of Shah Jahan's reign. The writer Abdul Hamid has stated
that Taj Mahal is a temple-palace taken from Jaipur's Maharaja Jaisigh
and the building was known as Raja Mansingh's palace. This by itself is
enough proof to state that Tejo Mahalaya is a Hindu structure captured,
plundered and converted to a mausoleum by Shah Jahan and his henchmen.
But I have taken the liberty to provide you with 109 other proofs and
logical points which tell us that the structure known as the Taj Mahal
is actually Tejo Mahalaya.
There is a similar story behind Every Islamic structure in Bharat. They
are all converted Hindu structures. As I mentioned above, hundereds of
thousands of temples in Bharat have been destroyed by the barbaric
muslim invaders and I shall dedicate several articles to these
destroyed temples. However, the scope of this article is to prove to
you beyond the shadow of any doubt that Taj Mahal is Tejo Mahalaya and
should be recognized as such! Not as a monument to the dead Mumtaz
Mahal--an insignificant sex object in the incestous Shah Jahan's harem
of 5,000.
Another very important proof that Taj Mahal is a Hindu structure is
shown by figure 1 below. It depicts Aurangzeb's letter to Shah Jahan in
Persian in which he has unintentionally revealed the true identity of
the Taj Mahal as a Hindu Temple-Palace. Refer to proofs 20 and 66
stated below.
Figure 1. Aurangzeb's letter to his father Shah Jahan written in
Persian. (Source: Taj Mahal - The True Story, pg. 275)
Take the time to read the proofs stated below and know to what extent
we have been lied to by our own leaders. These proofs of Shri P.N. Oak
have been taken from the URL:
<http://rbhatnagar.ececs.uc.edu:8080/hindu_history/modern/taj_oak.html>
I would like to commend the creator of the above mentioned web site for
taking the time to put up the proofs given by Shri P.N. Oak.
For more information you can order the book, Taj Mahal - The True Story
authored by Shri P.N. Oak. The ISBN number of the book is ISBN 0-
9611614-4-2. The book is available through A. Ghosh (Publisher), 5720
W. Little York, #216, Houston, Texas 77091. Visit Sword Of Truth -
Online Magazine <http://www.swordoftruth.com> for more information
Proofs follow below:
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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 (Refer to Figure 1 above) 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 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 Jaisingh 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. Jaisingh
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.
Sanskrit 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 and initiated by
Professors at Pratt School of Architecture, New York, 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.
Architectural 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, 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 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 (Refer to the Figure 1 above). 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.
88. 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.
89. 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.
90. 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.
91. 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.
92. 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.
93. 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.
94. 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.
95. 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.
96. The Tajmahal is surrounded by huge mansions which indicate that
several battles have been waged around the Taj several times.
97. 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.
98. Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red stone
annexes. These are superflous for a mausoleum.
99. The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms. Residential
accomodation on such a stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.
100. 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.
101. The Tajmahal has pleasure pavillions which a tomb would never
have.
102. 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.
103. 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.
104. 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.
105. 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.
106. 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
107. 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.
108. 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 Shri P.N. Oak's other research books
<http://www.swordoftruth.com/PUBLICATION/authors.html>.
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