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THE TEJO MAHALYA -
THE TRUE STORY OF WHATS KNOW TODAY AS TAJ MAHAL
1. INTRODUCTION
During their rule they looted and destroyed hundreds 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.
2. THE TEJO MAHALAYA
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 Jaisingh 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.
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 for more information"
Proofs follow below:
3. NAME
- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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').
- 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.
- 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.
- Moreover, if the Taj is believed to be a burial place, how
can the term Mahal, i.e., mansion apply to it?
- 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.
4. TEMPLE TRADITION
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
5. DOCUMENTARY
EVIDENCE
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
6. EUROPEAN VISITORS
ACCOUNT.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
7. SANSKRIT
INSCRIPTION
- 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".
8. MISSING ELEPHANT
- 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."
9. KORANIC PATCHES
- 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.
- 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.
10.CARBON 14 TEST
- 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.
11. ARCHITECTURAL
EVIDENCE
- 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.
- A central dome with cupolas at its four corners is a
universal feature of Hindu temples.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
12. INCONSISTENCIES
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
13. TREASURY WELL
- 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.
14. BURIAL DATE
UNKNOWN
- 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.
- 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?
15. BASELESS LOVE
STORIES
- 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.
16. COST
- 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.
17. PERIOD OF
CONSTRUCTION
- 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.
18 ARCHITECTS
- 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.
19. RECORDS DON'T
EXIST.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Tajmahal has identical entrance arches on all four
sides. This is a typical Hindu building style known as
Chaturmukhi, i.e.,four faced.
20. THE HINDU DOME
- 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.
- 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.
- The Tajmahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an
Islamic building it should have faced the west.
21. TOMB IS THE
GRAVE, NOT THE BUILDING
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
22. PRE-SHAHJAHAN
REFERENCES TO THE TAJ
- 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.
- 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.
- Babur's daughter Gulbadan Begum in her chronicle titled
Humayun Nama refers to the Taj as the Mystic House.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she did not qualify
for a fairyland burial.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Tajmahal is surrounded by huge mansions which indicate
that several battles have been waged around the Taj several
times.
- 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.
- Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red
stone annexes. These are superflous for a mausoleum.
- The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms.
Residential accomodation on such a stupendous scale is
unthinkable in a mausoleum.
- 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.
- The Tajmahal has pleasure pavillions which a tomb would
never have.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
23. FORGED
DOCUMENTS.
- 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.
- 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.
Taken from Zulfikar
Khan' website
Satyameva
Jayate
http://www.hinduunity.org
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