Probably there is no one
who has been duped at least once in a life time. But can the whole
world can be duped? This may seem impossible. But in the matter of
indian and world history the world can be duped in many respects for
hundreds of years and still continues to be duped. The world famous
Tajmahal is a glaring instance. For all the time, money and energy that
people over the world spend in visiting the Tajmahal, they are dished
out of concoction. Contrary to what visitors are made to believe the
Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva Temple known as
Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation moghul emperor Shahjahan
commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur. The Tajmahal, should
therefore, be viewed as a temple palace and not as a tomb. That makes a
vast difference. You miss the details of its size, grandeur, majesty and
beauty when you take it to be a mere tomb. When told that you are
visiting a temple palace you wont fail to notice its annexes, ruined
defensive walls, hillocks, moats, cascades, fountains, majestic garden,
hundreds of rooms archaded verendahs, terraces, multi stored towers,
secret sealed chambers, guest rooms, stables, the trident (Trishul)
pinnacle on the dome and the sacred, esoteric Hindu letter "OM"
carved on the exterior of the wall of the sanctum sanctorum now
occupied by the centotaphs. For detailed proof of this breath taking
discovery,you may read the well known historian Shri. P. N. Oak's celebrated book titled " Tajmahal : The True Story". But let us place before you, for the time being an exhaustive summary of the massive evidence ranging over hundred points:
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1.The
term Tajmahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle
even in Aurangzeb's time. The attempt to explain it away as Taj-i-mahal
is therefore, ridiculous.
2.The ending "Mahal"is never
muslim because in none of the muslim countries around the world from
Afghanistan to Algeria is there a building known as "Mahal".
3.The
unusual explanation of the term Tajmahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal, who
is buried in it, is illogical in at least two respects viz., firstly
her name was never Mumtaj Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani and secondly one
cannot omit the first three letters "Mum" from a woman's name to derive
the remainder as the name of the building.
4.Since the
lady's name was Mumtaz (ending with 'Z') the name of the building
derived from her should have been Taz Mahal, if at all, and not Taj
(spelled with a 'J').
5.Several European visitors of
Shahjahan's time allude to the building as Taj-e-Mahal is almost the
correct tradition, age old Sanskrit name Tej-o-Mahalaya, signifying a
Shiva temple. Contrarily Shahjahan and Aurangzeb scrupulously avoid
using the Sanskrit term and call it just a holy grave.
6.The
tomb should be understood to signify NOT A BUILDING but only the grave
or centotaph inside it. This would help people to realize that all dead
muslim courtiers and royalty including Humayun, Akbar, Mumtaz,
Etmad-ud-Daula and Safdarjang have been buried in capture Hindu mansions
and temples.
7.Moreover, if the Taj is believed to be a burial place, how can the term Mahal, i.e., mansion apply to it?
8.Since
the term Taj Mahal does not occur in mogul courts it is absurd to
search for any mogul explanation for it. Both its components namely,
'Taj' and' Mahal' are of Sanskrit origin.
TEMPLE TRADITION
9.The
term Taj Mahal is a corrupt form of the sanskrit term TejoMahalay
signifying a Shiva Temple. Agreshwar Mahadev i.e., The Lord of Agra was
consecrated in it.
10.The tradition of removing the shoes
before climbing the marble platform originates from pre Shahjahan times
when the Taj was a Shiva Temple. Had the Taj originated as a tomb, shoes
need not have to be removed because shoes are a necessity in a
cemetery.
11.Visitors may notice that the base slab of the
centotaph is the marble basement in plain white while its
superstructure and the other three centotaphs on the two floors are
covered with inlaid creeper designs. This indicates that the marble
pedestal of the Shiva idol is still in place and Mumtaz's centotaphs are
fake.
12.The pitchers carved inside the upper border of
the marble lattice plus those mounted on it number 108-a number sacred
in Hindu Temple tradition.
13.There are persons who are
connected with the repair and the maintainance of the Taj who have seen
the ancient sacred Shiva Linga and other idols sealed in the thick
walls and in chambers in the secret, sealed red stone stories below the
marble basement. The Archaeological Survey of India is keeping
discretely, politely and diplomatically silent about it to the point of
dereliction of its own duty to probe into hidden historical evidence.
14.In
India there are 12 Jyotirlingas i.e., the outstanding Shiva Temples.
The Tejomahalaya alias The Tajmahal appears to be one of them known as
Nagnatheshwar since its parapet is girdled with Naga, i.e., Cobra
figures. Ever since Shahjahan's capture of it the sacred temple has lost
its Hindudom.
15.The famous Hindu treatise on
architecture titled Vishwakarma Vastushastra mentions the 'Tej-Linga'
amongst the Shivalingas i.e., the stone emblems of Lord Shiva, the
Hindu deity. Such a Tej Linga was consecrated in the Taj Mahal, hence
the term Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya.
16.Agra city, in
which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient centre of Shiva worship.
Its orthodox residents have through ages continued the tradition of
worshipping at five Shiva shrines before taking the last meal every
night especially during the month of Shravan. During the last few
centuries the residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at
only four prominent Shiva temples viz., Balkeshwar, Prithvinath,
Manakameshwar and Rajarajeshwar. They had lost track of the fifth Shiva
deity which their forefathers worshipped. Apparently the fifth was
Agreshwar Mahadev Nagnatheshwar i.e., The Lord Great God of Agra, The
Deity of the King of Cobras, consecrated in the Tejomahalay alias
Tajmahal.
17.The people who dominate the Agra region are
Jats. Their name of Shiva is Tejaji. The Jat special issue of The
Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28,1971) mentions that the Jats have
the Teja Mandirs i.e., Teja Temples. This is because Teja-Linga is among
the several names of the Shiva Lingas. From this it is apparent that
the Taj-Mahal is Tejo-Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
18.
Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol
1) that a grand mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome
(Imaarat-a-Alishan wa Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja
Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and the building was known as Raja
Mansingh's palace.
19. The plaque put the archealogy
department outside the Tajmahal describes the edifice as a mausoleum
built by Shahjahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal , over 22 years from 1631
to 1653. That plaque is a specimen of historical bungling. Firstly, the
plaque sites no authority for its claim. Secondly the lady's name was
Mumtaz-ulZamani and not Mumtazmahal. Thirdly, the period of 22 years is
taken from some mumbo jumbo noting by an unreliable French visitor
Tavernier, to the exclusion of all muslim versions, which is an
absurdity.
20. Prince Aurangzeb's letter 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 Jaising ordering the
latter to supply marble (for Mumtaz's grave and koranic grafts) from his
Makranna quarris, and stone cutters. Jaisingh was apparently so enraged
at the blatant seizure of the Tajmahal that he refused to oblige
Shahjahan by providing marble for grafting koranic engravings and fake
centotaphs for further desecration of the Tajmahal. Jaising looked at
Shahjahan's demand for marble and stone cutters, as an insult added to
injury. Therefore, he refused to send any marble and instead detained
the stone cutters in his protective custody.
23. The three
firmans demanding marble were sent to Jaisingh within about two years
of Mumtaz's death. Had Shahjahan really built the Tajmahal over a period
of 22 years, the marble would have needed only after 15 or 20 years not
immediately after Mumtaz's death.
24. Moreover, the three
mention neither the Tajmahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the burial. The cost and
the quantity of the stone also are not mentioned. This proves that an
insignificant quantity of marble was needed just for some supercial
tinkering and tampering with the Tajmahal. Even otherwise Shahjahan
could never hope to build a fabulous Tajmahal by abject dependence for
marble on a non cooperative Jaisingh.
EUROPEAN VISITOR'S ACCOUNTS
25.
Tavernier, a French jeweller has recorded in his travel memoirs that
Shahjahan purposely buried Mumtaz near the Taz-i-Makan (i.e.,`The Taj
building') where foriegners used to come as they do even today so that
the world may admire. He also adds that the cost of the 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.
SANSKIRT INSCRIPTION
30.
A Sanskrit inscription too supports the conclusion that the Taj
originated as a Shiva temple. Wrongly termed as the Bateshwar
inscription (currently preserved on the top floor of the Lucknow
museum), it refers to the raising of a "crystal white Shiva temple so
alluring that Lord Shiva once enshrined in it decided never to return to
Mount Kailash his usual abode". That inscription dated 1155 A.D. was
removed from the Tajmahal garden at Shahjahan's orders. Historicians and
Archeaologists have blundered in terming the insription the `Bateshwar
inscription' when the record doesn't say that it was found by
Bateshwar. It ought, in fact, to be called `The Tejomahalaya
inscription' because it was originally installed in the Taj garden
before it was uprooted and cast away at Shahjahan's command.
A
clue to the tampering by Shahjahan is found on pages 216-217, vol. 4, of
Archealogiical Survey of India Reports (published 1874) stating that a
"great square black balistic pillar which, with the base and capital of
another pillar....now in the grounds of Agra,...it is well known, once
stood in the garden of Tajmahal".
MISSING ELEPHANTS
31.
Far from the building of the Taj, Shahjahan disfigured it with black
koranic lettering and heavily robbed it of its Sanskrit inscription,
several idols and two huge stone elephants extending their trunks in a
welcome arch over the gateway where visitors these days buy entry
tickets. An Englishman, Thomas Twinning, records (pg.191 of his book
"Travels in India A Hundred Years ago") that in November 1794 "I arrived
at the high walls which enclose the Taj-e-Mahal and its circumjacent
buildings. I here got out of the palanquine and.....mounted a short
flight of steps leading to a beautiful portal which formed the centre of
this side of the `COURT OF ELEPHANTS" as the great area was called."
KORANIC PATCHES
32.
The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14 chapters of the Koran but
nowhere is there even the slightest or the remotest allusion in that
Islamic overwriting to Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj. Had Shahjahan
been the builder he would have said so in so many words before beginning
to quote Koran.
33. That Shahjahan, far from building the
marble Taj, only disfigured it with black lettering is mentioned by the
inscriber Amanat Khan Shirazi himself in an inscription on the
building. A close scrutiny of the Koranic lettering reveals that they
are grafts patched up with bits of variegated stone on an ancient Shiva
temple.
CARBON 14 TEST
34.
A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the
carbon 14 test by an American Laboratory, has revealed that the door to
be 300 years older than Shahjahan,since the doors of the Taj, broken
open by Muslim invaders repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to
b replaced from time to time. The Taj edifice is much more older. It
belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost 500 years anterior to Shahjahan.
ARCHITECHTURAL EVIDENCE
35.
Well known Western authorities on architechture like E.B.Havell,
Mrs.Kenoyer and Sir W.W.Hunterhave gone on record to say that the
TajMahal is built in the Hindu temple style. Havell points out the
ground plan of the ancient Hindu Chandi Seva Temple in Java is identical
with that of the Taj.
36. A central dome with cupolas at its four corners is a universal feature of Hindu temples.
37.
The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style.
They are used as lamp towers during night and watch towers during the
day. Such towers serve to demarcate the holy precincts. Hindu wedding
altars and the altar set up for God Satyanarayan worship have pillars
raised at the four corners.
38. The octagonal shape of the
Tajmahal has a special Hindu significance because Hindus alone have
special names for the eight directions, and celestial guards assigned
to them. The pinnacle points to the heaven while the foundation
signifies to the nether world. Hindu forts, cities, palaces and temples
genrally have an octagonal layout or some octagonal features so that
together with the pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the ten
directions in which the king or God holds sway, according to Hindu
belief.
39. The Tajmahal has a trident pinncle over the
dome. A full scale of the trident pinnacle is inlaid in the red stone
courtyard to the east of the Taj. The central shaft of the trident
depicts a "Kalash" (sacred pot) holding two bent mango leaves and a
coconut. This is a sacred Hindu motif. Identical pinnacles have been
seen over Hindu and Buddhist temples in the Himalayan region. Tridents
are also depicted against a red lotus background at the apex of the
stately marble arched entrances on all four sides of the Taj. People
fondly but mistakenly believed all these centuries that the Taj pinnacle
depicts a Islamic cresent and star was a lighting conductor installed
by the British rulers in India. Contrarily, the pinnacle is a marvel of
Hindu metallurgy since the pinnacle made of non rusting alloy, is also
perhaps a lightning deflector. That the pinnacle of the replica is drawn
in the eastern courtyard is significant because the east is of special
importance to the Hindus, as the direction in which the sun rises. The
pinnacle on the dome has the word `Allah' on it after capture. The
pinnacle figure on the ground does not have the word Allah.
INCONSISTENCIES
40.
The two buildings which face the marble Taj from the east and west are
identical in design, size and shape and yet the eastern building is
explained away by Islamic tradition, as a community hall while the
western building is claimed to be a mosque. How could buildings meant
for radically different purposes be identical? This proves that the
western building was put to use as a mosque after seizure of the Taj
property by Shahjahan. Curiously enough the building being explained
away as a mosque has no minaret. They form a pair af reception pavilions
of the Tejomahalaya temple palace.
41. A few yards away
from the same flank is the Nakkar Khana alias DrumHouse which is a
intolerable incongruity for Islam. The proximity of the Drum House
indicates that the western annex was not originally a mosque. Contrarily
a drum house is a neccesity in a Hindu temple or palace because Hindu
chores,in the morning and evening, begin to the sweet strains of music.
42.
The embossed patterns on the marble exterior of the centotaph chamber
wall are foilage of the conch shell design and the Hindu letter "OM".
The octagonally laid marble lattices inside the centotaph chamber depict
pink lotuses on their top railing. The Lotus, the conch and the OM are
the sacred motifs associated with the Hindu deities and temples.
43.
The spot occupied by Mumtaz's centotaph was formerly occupied by the
Hindu Teja Linga a lithic representation of Lord Shiva. Around it are
five perambulatory passages. Perambulation could be done around the
marble lattice or through the spacious marble chambers surrounding the
centotaph chamber, and in the open over the marble platform. It is also
customary for the Hindus to have apertures along the perambulatory
passage, overlooking the deity. Such apertures exist in the
perambulatories in the Tajmahal.
44. The sanctom sanctorum
in the Taj has silver doors and gold railings as Hindu temples have.
It also had nets of pearl and gems stuffed in the marble lattices. It
was the lure of this wealth which made Shahjahan commandeer the Taj
from a helpless vassal Jaisingh, the then ruler of Jaipur.
45.
Peter Mundy, a Englishman records (in 1632, within a year of Mumtaz's
death) having seen a gem studded gold railing around her tomb. Had the
Taj been under construction for 22 years, a costly gold railing would
not have been noticed by Peter mundy within a year of Mumtaz's death.
Such costl fixtures are installed in a building only after it is ready
for use. This indicates that Mumtaz's centotaph was grafted in place of
the Shivalinga in the centre of the gold railings. Subsequently the gold
railings, silver doors, nets of pearls, gem fillings etc. were all
carried away to Shahjahan's treasury. The seizure of the Taj thus
constituted an act of highhanded Moghul robery causing a big row between
Shahjahan and Jaisingh.
46. In the marble flooring around
Mumtaz's centotaph may be seen tiny mosaic patches. Those patches
indicate the spots where the support for the gold railings were embedded
in the floor. They indicate a rectangular fencing.
47.
Above Mumtaz's centotaph hangs a chain by which now hangs a lamp. Before
capture by Shahjahan the chain used to hold a water pitcher from which
water used to drip on the Shivalinga.
48. It is this
earlier Hindu tradition in the Tajmahal which gave the Islamic myth of
Shahjahan's love tear dropping on Mumtaz's tomb on the full moon day of
the winter eve.
TREASURY WELL
49.
Between the so-called mosque and the drum house is a multistoried
octagonal well with a flight of stairs reaching down to the water level.
This is a traditional treasury well in Hindu temple palaces. Treasure
chests used to be kept in the lower apartments while treasury personnel
had their offices in the upper chambers. The circular stairs made it
difficult for intruders to reach down to the treasury or to escape with
it undetected or unpursued. In case the premises had to be surrendered
to a besieging enemy the treasure could be pushed into the well to
remain hidden from the conquerer and remain safe for salvaging if the
place was reconquered. Such an elaborate multistoried well is superflous
for a mere mausoleum. Such a grand, gigantic well is unneccesary for a
tomb.
BURIAL DATE UNKNOWN
50.
Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal as a wonder mausoleum, history
would have recorded a specific date on which she was ceremoniously
buried in the Taj Mahal. No such date is ever mentioned. This important
missing detail decisively exposes the falsity of the Tajmahal legend.
51.
Even the year of Mumtaz's death is unknown. It is variously speculated
to be 1629, 1630, 1631 or 1632. Had she deserved a fabulous burial, as
is claimed, the date of her death had not been a matter of much
speculation. In an harem teeming with 5000 women it was difficult to
keep track of dates of death. Apparently the date of Mumtaz's death was
so insignificant an event, as not to merit any special notice. Who
would then build a Taj for her burial?
BASELESS LOVE STORIES
52.
Stories of Shahjahan's exclusive infatuation for Mumtaz's are
concoctions. They have no basis in history nor has any book ever written
on their fancied love affairs. Those stories have been invented as an
afterthought to make Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj look plausible.
COST
53.
The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in Shahjahan's court papers
because Shahjahan never built the Tajmahal. That is why wild estimates
of the cost by gullible writers have ranged from 4 million to 91.7
million rupees.
PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION
54.
Likewise the period of construction has been guessed to be anywhere
between 10 years and 22 years. There would have not been any scope for
guesswork had the building construction been on record in the court
papers.
ARCHITECTS
55.
The designer of the Tajmahal is also variously mentioned as Essa
Effendy, a Persian or Turk, or Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman, Austin
deBordeaux, or Geronimo Veroneo, an Italian, or Shahjahan himself.
RECORDS DON'T EXIST
56.
Twenty thousand labourers are supposed to have worked for 22 years
during Shahjahan's reign in building the Tajmahal. Had this been true,
there should have been available in Shahjahan's court papers design
drawings, heaps of labour muster rolls, daily expenditure sheets, bills
and receipts of material ordered, and commisioning orders. There is not
even a scrap of paper of this kind.
57. It is, therefore,
court flatterers,blundering historians, somnolent archeologists, fiction
writers, senile poets, careless tourists officials and erring guides
who are responsible for hustling the world into believing in Shahjahan's
mythical authorship of the Taj.
58. Description of the
gardens around the Taj of Shahjahan's time mention Ketaki, Jai, Jui,
Champa, Maulashree, Harshringar and Bel. All these are plants whose
flowers or leaves are used in the worship of Hindu deities. Bel leaves
are exclusively used in Lord Shiva's worship. A graveyard is planted
only with shady trees because the idea of using fruit and flower from
plants in a cemetary is abhorrent to human conscience. The presence of
Bel and other flower plants in the Taj garden is proof of its having
been a Shiva temple before seizure by Shahjahan.
59. Hindu
temples are often built on river banks and sea beaches. The Taj is one
such built on the bank of the Yamuna river an ideal location for a Shiva
temple.
60. Prophet Mohammad has ordained that the burial
spot of a muslim should be inconspicous and must not be marked by even a
single tombstone. In flagrant violation of this, the Tajamhal has one
grave in the basement and another in the first floor chamber both
ascribed to Mumtaz. Those two centotaphs were infact erected by
Shahjahan to bury the two tier Shivalingas that were consecrated in the
Taj. It is customary for Hindus to install two Shivalingas one over the
other in two stories as may be seen in the Mahankaleshwar temple in
Ujjain and the Somnath temple raised by Ahilyabai in Somnath Pattan.
61.
The Tajmahal has identical entrance arches on all four sides. This is a
typical Hindu building style known as Chaturmukhi, i.e.,four faced.
THE HINDU DOME
62.
The Tajmahal has a reverberating dome. Such a dome is an absurdity for a
tomb which must ensure peace and silence. Contrarily reverberating
domes are a neccesity in Hindu temples because they create an ecstatic
dinmultiplying and magnifying the sound of bells, drums and pipes
accompanying the worship of Hindu deities.
63. The
Tajmahal dome bears a lotus cap. Original Islamic domes have a bald top
as is exemplified by the Pakistan Embassy in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi,
and the domes in the Pakistan's newly built capital Islamabad.
64. The Tajmahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an Islamic building it should have faced the west.
TOMB IS THE GRAVE,NOT THE BUILDING
65.
A widespread misunderstanding has resulted in mistaking the building
for the grave.Invading Islam raised graves in captured buildings in
every country it overran. Therefore, hereafter people must learn not to
confound the building with the grave mounds which are grafts in
conquered buildings. This is true of the Tajmahal too. One may therefore
admit (for arguments sake) that Mumtaz lies buried inside the Taj. But
that should not be construed to mean that the Taj was raised over
Mumtaz's grave.
66. The Taj is a seven storied building.
Prince Aurangzeb also mentions this in his letter to Shahjahan. The
marble edifice comprises four stories including the lone, tall circular
hall inside the top, and the lone chamber in the basement. In between
are two floors each containing 12 to 15 palatial rooms. Below the marble
plinth reaching down to the river at the rear are two more stories in
red stone. They may be seen from the river bank. The seventh storey must
be below the ground (river) level since every ancient Hindu building
had a subterranian storey.
67. Immediately bellow the
marble plinth on the river flank are 22 rooms in red stone with their
ventilators all walled up by Shahjahan. Those rooms, made uninhibitably
by Shahjahan, are kept locked by Archealogy Department of India. The lay
visitor is kept in the dark about them. Those 22 rooms still bear
ancient Hindu paint on their walls and ceilings. On their side is a
nearly 33 feet long corridor. There are two door frames one at either
end ofthe corridor. But those doors are intriguingly sealed with brick
and lime.
68. Apparently those doorways originally sealed
by Shahjahan have been since unsealed and again walled up several times.
In 1934 a resident of Delhi took a peep inside from an opening in the
upper part of the doorway. To his dismay he saw huge hall inside. It
contained many statues huddled around a central beheaded image of Lord
Shiva. It could be that, in there, are Sanskrit inscriptions too. All
the seven stories of the Tajmahal need to be unsealed and scoured to
ascertain what evidence they may be hiding in the form of Hindu images,
Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures, coins and utensils.
69.
Apart from Hindu images hidden in the sealed stories it is also learnt
that Hindu images are also stored in the massive walls of the Taj.
Between 1959 and 1962 when Mr. S.R. Rao was the Archealogical
Superintendent in Agra, he happened to notice a deep and wide crack in
the wall of the central octagonal chamber of the Taj. When a part of the
wall was dismantled to study the crack out popped two or three marble
images. The matter was hushed up and the images were reburied where they
had been embedded at Shahjahan's behest. Confirmation of this has been
obtained from several sources. It was only when I began my investigation
into the antecedents of the Taj I came across the above information
which had remained a forgotten secret. What better proof is needed of
the Temple origin of the Tajmahal? Its walls and sealed chambers still
hide in Hindu idols that were consecrated in it before Shahjahan's
seizure of the Taj.
PRE-SHAHJAHAN REFERENCES TO THE TAJ
70.
Apparently the Taj as a central palace seems to have an chequered
history. The Taj was perhaps desecrated and looted by every Muslim
invader from Mohammad Ghazni onwards but passing into Hindu hands off
and on, the sanctity of the Taj as a Shiva temple continued to be
revived after every muslim onslaught. Shahjahan was the last muslim to
desecrate the Tajmahal alias Tejomahalay.
71. Vincent
Smith records in his book titled `Akbar the Great Moghul' that `Babur's
turbulent life came to an end in his garden palace in Agra in 1630'.
That palace was none other than the Tajmahal.
72. Babur's daughter Gulbadan Begum in her chronicle titled `Humayun Nama' refers to the Taj as the Mystic House.
73.
Babur himself refers to the Taj in his memoirs as the palace captured
by Ibrahim Lodi containing a central octagonal chamber and having
pillars on the four sides. All these historical references allude to the
Taj 100 years before Shahjahan.
74. The Tajmahal
precincts extend to several hundred yards in all directions. Across the
river are ruins of the annexes of the Taj, the bathing ghats and a jetty
for the ferry boat. In the Victoria gardens outside covered with
creepers is the long spur of the ancient outer wall ending in a
octagonal red stone tower. Such extensive grounds all magnificently done
up, are a superfluity for a grave.
75. Had the Taj been
specially built to bury Mumtaz, it should not have been cluttered with
other graves. But the Taj premises contain several graves atleast in its
eastern and southern pavilions.
76. In the southern
flank, on the other side of the Tajganj gate are buried in identical
pavilions queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri Begum and a maid
Satunnisa Khanum. Such parity burial can be justified only if the queens
had been demoted or the maid promoted. But since Shahjahan had
commandeered (not built) the Taj, he reduced it general to a muslim
cemetary as was the habit of all his Islamic predeccssors, and buried a
queen in a vacant pavillion and a maid in another idenitcal pavilion.
77.
Shahjahan was married to several other women before and after Mumtaz.
She, therefore, deserved no special consideration in having a wonder
mausoleum built for her.
78. Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she did not qualify for a fairyland burial.
79.
Mumtaz died in Burhanpur which is about 600 miles from Agra. Her grave
there is intact. Therefore ,the centotaphs raised in stories of the Taj
in her name seem to be fakes hiding in Hindu Shiva emblems.
80.
Shahjahan seems to have simulated Mumtaz's burial in Agra to find a
pretext to surround the temple palace with his fierce and fanatic troops
and remove all the costly fixtures in his treasury. This finds
confirmation in the vague noting in the Badshahnama which says that the
Mumtaz's (exhumed) body was brought to Agra from Burhanpur and buried
`next year'. An official term would not use a nebulous term unless it is
to hide some thing.
81. A pertinent consideration is that
a Shahjahan who did not build any palaces for Mumtaz while she was
alive, would not build a fabulous mausoleum for a corpse which was no
longer kicking or clicking.
82. Another factor is that
Mumtaz died within two or three years of Shahjahan becoming an emperor.
Could he amass so much superflous wealth in that short span as to
squander it on a wonder mausoleum?
83. While Shahjahan's
special attachment to Mumtaz is nowhere recorded in history his amorous
affairs with many other ladies from maids to mannequins including his
own daughter Jahanara, find special attention in accounts of Shahjahan's
reign. Would Shahjahan shower his hard earned wealth on Mumtaz's
corpse?
84. Shahjahan was a stingy, usurious monarch. He
came to throne murdering all his rivals. He was not therefore, the
doting spendthrift that he is made out to be.
85. A
Shahjahan disconsolate on Mumtaz's death is suddenly credited with a
resolve to build the Taj. This is a psychological incongruity. Grief is a
disabling, incapacitating emotion.
86. A infatuated
Shahjahan is supposed to have raised the Taj over the dead Mumtaz, but
carnal, physical sexual love is again a incapacitating emotion. A
womaniser is ipso facto incapable of any constructive activity. When
carnal love becomes uncontrollable the person either murders somebody or
commits suicide. He cannot raise a Tajmahal. A building like the Taj
invariably originates in an ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to
one's mother and mother country or power and glory.
87.
Early in the year 1973, chance digging in the garden in front of the Taj
revealed another set of fountains about six feet below the present
fountains. This proved two things. Firstly, the subterranean fountains
were there before Shahjahan laid the surface fountains. And secondly
that those fountains are aligned to the Taj that edifice too is of pre
Shahjahan origin. Apparently the garden and its fountains had sunk from
annual monsoon flooding and lack of maintenance for centuries during the
Islamic rule.
88. The stately rooms on the upper floor of
the Tajmahal have been striped of their marble mosaic by Shahjahan to
obtain matching marble for raising fake tomb stones inside the Taj
premises at several places. Contrasting with the rich finished marble
ground floor rooms the striping of the marble mosaic covering the lower
half of the walls and flooring of the upper storey have given those
rooms a naked, robbed look. Since no visitors are allowed entry to the
upper storey this despoilation by Shahjahan has remained a well guarded
secret. There is no reason why Shahjahan's loot of the upper floor
marble should continue to be hidden from the public even after 200 years
of termination of Moghul rule.
89. Bernier, the French
traveller has recorded that no non muslim was allowed entry into the
secret nether chambers of the Taj because there are some dazzling
fixtures there. Had those been installed by Shahjahan they should have
been shown the public as a matter of pride. But since it was
commandeered Hindu wealth which Shahjahan wanted to remove to his
treasury, he didn't want the public to know about it.
90.
The approach to Taj is dotted with hillocks raised with earth dugout
from foundation trenches. The hillocks served as outer defences of the
Taj building complex. Raising such hillocks from foundation earth, is a
common Hindu device of hoary origin. Nearby Bharatpur provides a graphic
parallel.
Peter Mundy has recorded that Shahjahan employed
thousands of labourers to level some of those hillocks. This is a
graphic proof of the Tajmahal existing before Shahjahan.
91.
At the backside of the river bank is a Hindu crematorium, several
palaces, Shiva temples and bathings of ancient origin. Had Shahjahan
built the Tajmahal, he would have destroyed the Hindu features.
92.
The story that Shahjahan wanted to build a Black marble Taj across the
river, is another motivated myth. The ruins dotting the other side of
the river are those of Hindu structures demolished during muslim
invasions and not the plinth of another Tajmahal. Shahjahan who did not
even build the white Tajmahal would hardly ever think of building a
black marble Taj. He was so miserly that he forced labourers to work
gratis even in the superficial tampering neccesary to make a Hindu
temple serve as a Muslim tomb.
93. The marble that
Shahjahan used for grafting Koranic lettering in the Taj is of a pale
white shade while the rest of the Taj is built of a marble with rich
yellow tint. This disparity is proof of the Koranic extracts being a
superimposition.
94. Though imaginative attempts have been
made by some historians to foist some fictitious name on history as the
designer of the Taj others more imaginative have credited Shajahan
himself with superb architechtural proficiency and artistic talent which
could easily concieve and plan the Taj even in acute bereavment. Such
people betray gross ignorance of history in as much as Shajahan was a
cruel tyrant ,a great womaniser and a drug and drink addict.
95.
Fanciful accounts about Shahjahan commisioning the Taj are all
confused. Some asserted that Shahjahan ordered building drawing from all
over the world and chose one from among them. Others assert that a man
at hand was ordered to design a mausoleum amd his design was approved.
Had any of those versions been true Shahjahan's court papers should
have had thousands of drawings concerning the Taj. But there is not
even a single drawing. This is yet another clinching proof that
Shahjahan did not commision the Taj.
96. The Tajmahal is
surrounded by huge mansions which indicate that several battles have
been waged around the Taj several times.
97. At the south
east corner of the Taj is an ancient royal cattle house. Cows attached
to the Tejomahalay temple used to reared there. A cowshed is an
incongruity in an Islamic tomb.
98. Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red stone annexes. These are superflous for a mausoleum.
99.
The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms. Residential
accomodation on such a stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.
100.
The neighbouring Tajganj township's massive protective wall also
encloses the Tajmahal temple palace complex. This is a clear indication
that the Tejomahalay temple palace was part and parcel of the township. A
street of that township leads straight into the Tajmahal. The Tajganj
gate is aligned in a perfect straight line to the octagonal red stone
garden gate and the stately entrance arch of the Tajmahal. The Tajganj
gate besides being central to the Taj temple complex, is also put on a
pedestal. The western gate by which the visitors enter the Taj complex
is a camparatively minor gateway. It has become the entry gate for most
visitors today because the railway station and the bus station are on
that side.
101. The Tajmahal has pleasure pavillions which a tomb would never have.
102.
A tiny mirror glass in a gallery of the Red Fort in Agra reflects the
Taj mahal. Shahjahan is said to have spent his last eight years of life
as a prisoner in that gallery peering at the reflected Tajmahal and
sighing in the name of Mumtaz. This myth is a blend of many falsehoods.
Firstly,old Shajahan was held prisoner by his son Aurangzeb in the
basement storey in the Fort and not in an open,fashionable upper storey.
Secondly, the glass piece was fixed in the 1930's by Insha Allah Khan, a
peon of the archaelogy dept.just to illustrate to the visitors how in
ancient times the entire apartment used to scintillate with tiny mirror
pieces reflecting the Tejomahalay temple a thousand fold. Thirdly, a old
decrepit Shahjahan with pain in his joints and cataract in his eyes,
would not spend his day craning his neck at an awkward angle to peer
into a tiny glass piece with bedimmed eyesight when he could as well his
face around and have full,direct view of the Tjamahal itself. But the
general public is so gullible as to gulp all such prattle of wily,
unscrupulous guides.
103. That the Tajmahal dome has
hundreds of iron rings sticking out of its exterior is a feature rarely
noticed. These are made to hold Hindu earthen oil lamps for temple
illumination.
104. Those putting implicit faith in
Shahjahan authorship of the Taj have been imagining Shahjahan-Mumtaz to
be a soft hearted romantic pair like Romeo and Juliet. But contemporary
accounts speak of Shahjahan as a hard hearted ruler who was constantly
egged on to acts of tyranny and cruelty, by Mumtaz.
105.
School and College history carry the myth that Shahjahan reign was a
golden period in which there was peace and plenty and that Shahjahan
commisioned many buildings and patronized literature. This is pure
fabrication. Shahjahan did not commision even a single building as we
have illustrated by a detailed analysis of the Tajmahal legend. Shahjahn
had to enrage in 48 military campaigns during a reign of nearly 30
years which proves that his was not a era of peace and plenty.
108.
The interior of the dome rising over Mumtaz's centotaph has a
representation of Sun and cobras drawn in gold. Hindu warriors trace
their origin to the Sun. For an Islamic mausoleum the Sun is redundant.
Cobras are always associated with Lord Shiva.
FORGED DOCUMENTS
109.
The muslim caretakers of the tomb in the Tajmahal used to possess a
document which they styled as "Tarikh-i-Tajmahal". Historian H.G. Keene
has branded it as `a document of doubtful authenticity'. Keene was
uncannily right since we have seen that Shahjahan not being the creator
of the Tajmahal any document which credits Shahjahn with the Tajmahal,
must be an outright forgery. Even that forged document is reported to
have been smuggled out of Pakistan. Besides such forged documents there
are whole chronicles on the Taj which are pure concoctions.
110.
There is lot of sophistry and casuistry or atleast confused thinking
associated with the Taj even in the minds of proffesional historians,
archaelogists and architects. At the outset they assert that the Taj is
entirely Muslim in design. But when it is pointed out that its lotus
capped dome and the four corner pillars etc. are all entirely Hindu
those worthies shift ground and argue that that was probably because the
workmen were Hindu and were to introduce their own patterns. Both these
arguments are wrong because Muslim accounts claim the designers to be
Muslim,and the workers invariably carry out the employer's dictates.
The
Taj is only a typical illustration of how all historic buildings and
townships from Kashmir to Cape Comorin though of Hindu origin have been
ascribed to this or that Muslim ruler or courtier.
It is hoped
that people the world over who study Indian history will awaken to this
new finding and revise their erstwhile beliefs.
Those
interested in an indepth study of the above and many other revolutionary
rebuttals may read this author's other research books.
