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:
rbhatnagar.ececs.uc.edu:8...j_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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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