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.
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Figure 1.
Aurangzeb's letter to his father
Shah Jahan written in
Persian. (Source: Taj Mahal - The True Story, pg. 275)
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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),
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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.
Temple Tradition
9.The term Taj Mahal is a corrupt form of the
sanskrit term TejoMahalay signifying a Shiva
Temple. Agreshwar Mahadev i.e., The Lord of
Agra was consecrated in it.
10.The tradition of removing the shoes before
climbing the marble platform originates from
pre Shahjahan times when the Taj was a Shiva
Temple. Had the Taj originated as a tomb,
shoes need not have to be removed because
shoes are a necessity in a cemetery.
11.Visitors may notice that the base slab of
the centotaph is the marble basement in
plain white while its superstructure and
the other three centotaphs on the two floors
are covered with inlaid creeper designs.
This indicates that the marble pedestal of
the Shiva idol is still in place and
Mumtaz's centotaphs are fake.
12.The pitchers carved inside the upper border
of the marble lattice plus those mounted on
it number 108-a number sacred in Hindu Temple
tradition.
13.There are persons who are connected with the
repair and the maintainance of the Taj who
have seen the ancient sacred Shiva Linga and
other idols sealed in the thick walls and in
chambers in the secret, sealed red stone
stories below the marble basement. The
Archaeological Survey of India is keeping
discretely, politely and diplomatically
silent about it to the point of dereliction
of its own duty to probe into hidden
historical evidence.
14.In India there are 12 Jyotirlingas i.e.,
the outstanding Shiva Temples.
The Tejomahalaya alias The Tajmahal appears
to be one of them known as Nagnatheshwar
since its parapet is girdled with Naga, i.e.,
Cobra figures. Ever since Shahjahan's capture
of it the sacred temple has lost its Hindudom.
15.The famous Hindu treatise on architecture
titled Vishwakarma Vastushastra mentions the
Tej-Linga amongst the Shivalingas i.e.,
the stone emblems of Lord Shiva, the Hindu
deity. Such a Tej Linga was consecrated in
the Taj Mahal, hence the term Taj Mahal alias
Tejo Mahalaya.
16.Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is
located, is an ancient centre of Shiva
worship. Its orthodox residents have through
ages continued the tradition of worshipping at
five Shiva shrines before taking the last meal
every night especially during the month of
Shravan. During the last few centuries the
residents of Agra had to be content with
worshipping at only four prominent Shiva
temples viz., Balkeshwar,
Prithvinath,
Manakameshwar and
Rajarajeshwar. They had
lost track of the fifth Shiva deity which
their forefathers worshipped. Apparently the
fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev Nagnatheshwar
i.e., The Lord Great God of Agra,
The Deity of the King of Cobras, consecrated
in the Tejomahalay alias Tajmahal.
17.The people who dominate the Agra region are
Jats. Their name of Shiva is
Tejaji. The Jat
special issue of The Illustrated Weekly of
India (June 28,1971) mentions that the Jats
have the Teja Mandirs i.e., Teja Temples.
This is because Teja-Linga is among the
several names of the Shiva Lingas. From
this it is apparent that the Taj-Mahal is
Tejo-Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.
Documentary Evidence
18.Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the
Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol 1)
that a grand mansion of unique splendor,
capped with a dome (Imaarat-a-Alishan wa
Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja
Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and the building
was known as Raja Mansingh's palace.
19. The plaque put the archealogy department
outside the Tajmahal describes the edifice as
a mausoleum built by Shahjahan for his wife
Mumtaz Mahal, over 22 years from 1631 to 1653
That plaque is a specimen of historical
bungling. Firstly, the plaque sites no
authority for its claim. Secondly the lady's
name was Mumtaz-ulZamani and not Mumtazmahal.
Thirdly, the period of 22 years is taken from
some mumbo jumbo noting by an unreliable
French visitor Tavernier, to the exclusion of
all muslim versions, which is an absurdity.
20. Prince Aurangzeb's letter (Refer to Figure 1 above) to his father,
emperor Shahjahan, is recorded in atleast three
chronicles titled Aadaab-e-Alamgiri,
Yadgarnama, and the
Muruqqa-i-Akbarabadi
(edited by Said Ahmed, Agra, 1931, page 43,
footnote 2). In that letter Aurangzeb records
in 1652 A.D itself that the several buildings
in the fancied burial place of Mumtaz were
seven storeyed and were so old that they were
all leaking, while the dome had developed a
crack on the northern side. Aurangzeb,
therefore, ordered immediate repairs to the
buildings at his own expense while recommending
to the emperor that more elaborate repairs be
carried out later. This is the proof that
during Shahjahan's reign itself that the Taj
complex was so old as to need immediate
repairs.
21. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur retains in his
secret personal KapadDwara collection two
orders from Shahjahan dated Dec 18, 1633
(bearing modern nos. R.176 and 177)
requestioning the Taj building complex.
That was so blatant a usurpation that the
then ruler of Jaipur was ashamed to make the
document public.
22. The Rajasthan State archives at Bikaner
preserve three other firmans addressed by
Shahjahan to the Jaipur's ruler Jaisingh
ordering the latter to supply marble
(for Mumtaz's grave and koranic grafts)
from his Makranna quarris, and stone cutters.
Jaisingh was apparently so enraged at the
blatant seizure of the Tajmahal that he
refused to oblige Shahjahan by providing
marble for grafting koranic engravings and
fake centotaphs for further desecration of
the Tajmahal. Jaisingh looked at Shahjahan's
demand for marble and stone cutters, as an
insult added to injury. Therefore, he refused
to send any marble and instead detained the
stone cutters in his protective custody.
23. The three firmans demanding marble were
sent to Jaisingh within about two years of
Mumtaz's death. Had Shahjahan really built the
Tajmahal over a period of 22 years, the marble
would have needed only after 15 or 20 years not
immediately after Mumtaz's death.
24. Moreover, the three mention neither the
Tajmahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the burial. The cost
and the quantity of the stone also are not
mentioned. This proves that an insignificant
quantity of marble was needed just for some
supercial tinkering and tampering with the
Tajmahal. Even otherwise Shahjahan could never
hope to build a fabulous Tajmahal by abject
dependence for marble on a non cooperative
Jaisingh.
European Visitor's Accounts
25. Tavernier, a French jeweller has recorded
in his travel memoirs that Shahjahan purposely
buried Mumtaz near the Taz-i-Makan
(i.e.,`The Taj building') where foriegners
used to come as they do even today so that the
world may admire. He also adds that the cost of
the scaffolding was more than that of the
entire work. The work that Shahjahan
commissioned in the Tejomahalaya Shiva temple
was plundering at the costly fixtures inside it,
uprooting the Shiva idols, planting the
centotaphs in their place on two stories,
inscribing the koran along the arches and
walling up six of the seven stories of the Taj.
It was this plunder, desecrating and plunderring
of the rooms which took 22 years.
26. Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra
recorded in 1632 (within only a year of
Mumtaz's death) that `the places of note in and
around Agra, included Taj-e-Mahal's tomb,
gardens and bazaars'. He, therefore, confirms
that that the Tajmahal had been a noteworthy
building even before Shahjahan.
27. De Laet, a Dutch official has listed
Mansingh's palace about a mile from Agra fort,
as an outstanding building of pre shahjahan's
time. Shahjahan's court chronicle, the
Badshahnama records, Mumtaz's burial in the
same Mansingh's palace.
28. Bernier, a contemporary French visitor has
noted that non muslim's were barred entry into
the basement (at the time when Shahjahan
requisitioned Mansingh's palace) which
contained a dazzling light. Obviously, he
reffered to the silver doors, gold railing,
the gem studded lattice and strings of pearl
hanging over Shiva's idol. Shahjahan
comandeered the building to grab all the
wealth, making Mumtaz's death a convineant
pretext.
29. Johan Albert Mandelslo, who describes life
in agra in 1638 (only 7 years after mumtaz's
death) in detail (in his Voyages and Travels
to West-Indies, published by John Starkey and
John Basset, London), makes no mention of the
Tajmahal being under constuction though it is
commonly erringly asserted or assumed that the
Taj was being built from 1631 to 1653.
Sanskrit Inscription
30. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the
conclusion that the Taj originated as a Shiva
temple. Wrongly termed as the Bateshwar
inscription (currently preserved on the top
floor of the Lucknow museum), it refers to the
raising of a "crystal white Shiva temple so
alluring that Lord Shiva once enshrined in it
decided never to return to Mount Kailash his
usual abode". That inscription dated 1155
A.D. was removed from the Tajmahal garden at
Shahjahan's orders. Historicians and
Archeaologists have blundered in terming the
insription the Bateshwar inscription
when the
record doesn't say that it was found by
Bateshwar. It ought, in fact, to be called
The Tejomahalaya inscription because it was
originally installed in the Taj garden before
it was uprooted and cast away at Shahjahan's
command.
A clue to the tampering by Shahjahan is found
on pages 216-217, vol. 4, of Archealogiical
Survey of India Reports (published 1874)
stating that a "great square black balistic
pillar which, with the base and capital of
another pillar....now in the grounds of Agra,
...it is well known, once stood in the garden
of Tajmahal".
Missing Elephants
31. Far from the building of the Taj, Shahjahan
disfigured it with black koranic lettering and
heavily robbed it of its Sanskrit inscription,
several idols and two huge stone elephants
extending their trunks in a welcome arch over
the gateway where visitors these days buy entry
tickets. An Englishman, Thomas Twinning,
records (pg.191 of his book "Travels in India
A Hundred Years ago") that in November
1794 "I arrived at the high walls which enclose
the Taj-e-Mahal and its circumjacent buildings.
I here got out of the palanquine and.....mounted
a short flight of steps leading to a beautiful
portal which formed the centre of this side of
the Court Of Elephants as the great area was
called."
Koranic Patches
32. The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14
chapters of the Koran but nowhere is there even
the slightest or the remotest allusion in that
Islamic overwriting to Shahjahan's authorship
of the Taj. Had Shahjahan been the builder he
would have said so in so many words before
beginning to quote Koran.
33. That Shahjahan, far from building the marble
Taj, only disfigured it with black lettering
is mentioned by the inscriber Amanat Khan
Shirazi himself in an inscription on the
building. A close scrutiny of the Koranic
lettering reveals that they are grafts patched
up with bits of variegated stone on an ancient
Shiva temple.
Carbon 14 Test
34. A wooden piece from the riverside doorway
of the Taj subjected to the carbon 14 test by
an American Laboratory and initiated by
Professors at Pratt School of Architecture,
New York, has revealed that the door to be
300 years older than Shahjahan,since the doors
of the Taj, broken open by Muslim invaders
repeatedly from the 11th century onwards,
had to b replaced from time to time.
The Taj edifice is much more older.
It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost 500 years
anterior to Shahjahan.
Architectural Evidence
35. Well known Western authorities on
architechture like E.B.Havell, Mrs.Kenoyer and
Sir W.W.Hunterhave gone on record to say that
the TajMahal is built in the Hindu temple style.
Havell points out the ground plan of the
ancient Hindu Chandi Seva Temple in Java is
identical with that of the Taj.
36. A central dome with cupolas at its four
corners is a universal feature of Hindu temples.
37. The four marble pillars at the plinth
corners are of the Hindu style. They are used
as lamp towers during night and watch towers
during the day. Such towers serve to demarcate
the holy precincts. Hindu wedding altars and
the altar set up for God Satyanarayan worship
have pillars raised at the four corners.
38. The octagonal shape of the Tajmahal has a
special Hindu significance because Hindus alone
have special names for the eight directions, and
celestial guards assigned to them. The
pinnacle points to the heaven while the
foundation signifies to the nether world.
Hindu forts, cities, palaces and temples
genrally have an octagonal layout or some
octagonal features so that together with the
pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the
ten directions in which the king or God holds
sway, according to Hindu belief.
39. The Tajmahal has a trident pinncle over the
dome. A full scale of the trident pinnacle is
inlaid in the red stone courtyard to the east
of the Taj. The central shaft of the trident
depicts a Kalash (sacred pot) holding two
bent mango leaves and a coconut. This is a
sacred Hindu motif. Identical pinnacles have
been seen over Hindu and Buddhist temples in
the Himalayan region. Tridents are also
depicted against a red lotus background at the
apex of the stately marble arched entrances on
all four sides of the Taj. People fondly but
mistakenly believed all these centuries that
the Taj pinnacle depicts a Islamic cresent and
star was a lighting conductor installed by the
British rulers in India. Contrarily, the
pinnacle is a marvel of Hindu metallurgy since
the pinnacle made of non rusting alloy, is also
perhaps a lightning deflector. That the pinnacle
of the replica is drawn in the eastern
courtyard is significant because the east is
of special importance to the Hindus, as the
direction in which the sun rises. The pinnacle
on the dome has the word `Allah' on it after
capture. The pinnacle figure on the ground does
not have the word Allah.
Inconsistencies
40. The two buildings which face the marble Taj
from the east and west are identical in design,
size and shape and yet the eastern building is
explained away by Islamic tradition, as a
community hall while the western building is
claimed to be a mosque. How could buildings
meant for radically different purposes be
identical? This proves that the western building
was put to use as a mosque after seizure of the
Taj property by Shahjahan. Curiously enough the
building being explained away as a mosque has
no minaret. They form a pair af reception
pavilions of the Tejomahalaya temple palace.
41. A few yards away from the same flank is the
Nakkar Khana alias DrumHouse which is a
intolerable incongruity for Islam. The
proximity of the Drum House indicates that the
western annex was not originally a mosque.
Contrarily a drum house is a neccesity in a
Hindu temple or palace because Hindu chores,in
the morning and evening, begin to the sweet
strains of music.
42. The embossed patterns on the marble exterior
of the centotaph chamber wall are foilage of
the conch shell design and the Hindu letter
OM. The octagonally laid marble lattices
inside the centotaph chamber depict pink lotuses
on their top railing. The Lotus, the conch and
the OM are the sacred motifs associated with the
Hindu deities and temples.
43. The spot occupied by Mumtaz's centotaph was
formerly occupied by the Hindu Teja Linga a
lithic representation of Lord Shiva. Around it
are five perambulatory passages. Perambulation
could be done around the marble lattice or
through the spacious marble chambers surrounding
the centotaph chamber, and in the open over
the marble platform. It is also customary for
the Hindus to have apertures along the
perambulatory passage, overlooking the deity.
Such apertures exist in the perambulatories in
the Tajmahal.
44. The sanctom sanctorum in the Taj has silver
doors and gold railings as Hindu temples have.
It also had nets of pearl and gems stuffed in
the marble lattices. It was the lure of this
wealth which made Shahjahan commandeer the Taj
from a helpless vassal Jaisingh, the then ruler
of Jaipur.
45. Peter Mundy, a Englishman records (in 1632,
within a year of Mumtaz's death) having seen a
gem studded gold railing around her tomb. Had
the Taj been under construction for 22 years,
a costly gold railing would not have been
noticed by Peter mundy within a year of
Mumtaz's death. Such costl fixtures are
installed in a building only after it is ready
for use. This indicates that Mumtaz's centotaph
was grafted in place of the Shivalinga in the
centre of the gold railings. Subsequently the
gold railings, silver doors, nets of pearls,
gem fillings etc. were all carried away to
Shahjahan's treasury. The seizure of the Taj
thus constituted an act of highhanded Moghul
robery causing a big row between Shahjahan and
Jaisingh.
46. In the marble flooring around Mumtaz's
centotaph may be seen tiny mosaic patches.
Those patches indicate the spots where the
support for the gold railings were embedded in
the floor. They indicate a rectangular fencing.
47. Above Mumtaz's centotaph hangs a chain by
which now hangs a lamp. Before capture by
Shahjahan the chain used to hold a water
pitcher from which water used to drip on the
Shivalinga.
48. It is this earlier Hindu tradition in the
Tajmahal which gave the Islamic myth of
Shahjahan's love tear dropping on Mumtaz's tomb
on the full moon day of the winter eve.
Treasury Well
49. Between the so-called mosque and the drum
house is a multistoried octagonal well with a
flight of stairs reaching down to the water
level. This is a traditional treasury well in
Hindu temple palaces. Treasure chests used to
be kept in the lower apartments while treasury
personnel had their offices in the upper
chambers. The circular stairs made it difficult
for intruders to reach down to the treasury or
to escape with it undetected or unpursued. In
case the premises had to be surrendered to a
besieging enemy the treasure could be pushed
into the well to remain hidden from the
conquerer and remain safe for salvaging if the
place was reconquered. Such an elaborate
multistoried well is superflous for a mere
mausoleum. Such a grand, gigantic well is
unneccesary for a tomb.
Burial Date Unknown
50. Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal as
a wonder mausoleum, history would have recorded
a specific date on which she was ceremoniously
buried in the Taj Mahal. No such date is ever
mentioned. This important missing detail
decisively exposes the falsity of the Tajmahal
legend.
51. Even the year of Mumtaz's death is unknown.
It is variously speculated to be 1629, 1630,
1631 or 1632. Had she deserved a fabulous
burial, as is claimed, the date of her death
had not been a matter of much speculation. In
an harem teeming with 5000 women it was
difficult to keep track of dates of death.
Apparently the date of Mumtaz's death was so
insignificant an event, as not to merit any
special notice. Who would then build a Taj for
her burial?
Baseless Love Stories
52. Stories of Shahjahan's exclusive infatuation
for Mumtaz's are concoctions. They have no
basis in history nor has any book ever written
on their fancied love affairs. Those stories
have been invented as an afterthought to make
Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj look
plausible.
Cost
53. The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in
Shahjahan's court papers because Shahjahan
never built the Tajmahal. That is why wild
estimates of the cost by gullible writers have
ranged from 4 million to 91.7 million rupees.
Period Of Construction
54. Likewise the period of construction has
been guessed to be anywhere between 10 years
and 22 years. There would have not been any
scope for guesswork had the building
construction been on record in the court papers.
Architects
55. The designer of the Tajmahal is also
variously mentioned as Essa Effendy, a Persian
or Turk, or Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman,
Austin deBordeaux, or Geronimo Veroneo, an
Italian, or Shahjahan himself.
Records Don't Exist
56. Twenty thousand labourers are supposed to
have worked for 22 years during Shahjahan's
reign in building the Tajmahal. Had this been
true, there should have been available in
Shahjahan's court papers design drawings,
heaps of labour muster rolls, daily expenditure
sheets, bills and receipts of material ordered,
and commisioning orders. There is not even a
scrap of paper of this kind.
57. It is, therefore, court flatterers,
blundering historians, somnolent archeologists,
fiction writers, senile poets, careless
tourists officials and erring guides who are
responsible for hustling the world into
believing in Shahjahan's mythical authorship of
the Taj.
58. Description of the gardens around the Taj
of Shahjahan's time mention Ketaki, Jai, Jui,
Champa, Maulashree, Harshringar and Bel. All
these are plants whose flowers or leaves are
used in the worship of Hindu deities. Bel
leaves are exclusively used in Lord Shiva's
worship. A graveyard is planted only with shady
trees because the idea of using fruit and
flower from plants in a cemetary is abhorrent to
human conscience. The presence of Bel and other
flower plants in the Taj garden is proof of its
having been a Shiva temple before seizure by
Shahjahan.
59. Hindu temples are often built on river
banks and sea beaches. The Taj is one such built
on the bank of the Yamuna river an ideal
location for a Shiva temple.
60. Prophet Mohammad has ordained that the
burial spot of a muslim should be inconspicous
and must not be marked by even a single
tombstone. In flagrant violation of this, the
Tajamhal has one grave in the basement and
another in the first floor chamber both
ascribed to Mumtaz. Those two centotaphs were
infact erected by Shahjahan to bury the two
tier Shivalingas that were consecrated in the
Taj. It is customary for Hindus to install two
Shivalingas one over the other in two stories
as may be seen in the Mahankaleshwar temple in
Ujjain and the Somnath temple raised by
Ahilyabai in Somnath Pattan.
61. The Tajmahal has identical entrance arches
on all four sides. This is a typical Hindu
building style known as Chaturmukhi, i.e.,four
faced.
The Hindu Dome
62. The Tajmahal has a reverberating dome. Such
a dome is an absurdity for a tomb which must
ensure peace and silence. Contrarily
reverberating domes are a neccesity in Hindu
temples because they create an ecstatic
dinmultiplying and magnifying the sound of
bells, drums and pipes accompanying the worship
of Hindu deities.
63. The Tajmahal dome bears a lotus cap.
Original Islamic domes have a bald top as is
exemplified by the Pakistan Embassy in
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, and the domes in the
Pakistan's newly built capital Islamabad.
64. The Tajmahal entrance faces south. Had the
Taj been an Islamic building it should have
faced the west.
Tomb is the Grave, not the Building
65. A widespread misunderstanding has resulted
in mistaking the building for the grave.Invading
Islam raised graves in captured buildings in
every country it overran. Therefore, hereafter
people must learn not to confound the building
with the grave mounds which are grafts in
conquered buildings. This is true of the
Tajmahal too. One may therefore admit
(for arguments sake) that Mumtaz lies buried
inside the Taj. But that should not be construed
to mean that the Taj was raised over Mumtaz's
grave.
66. The Taj is a seven storied building. Prince
Aurangzeb also mentions this in his letter to
Shahjahan (Refer to the Figure 1 above).
The marble edifice comprises four
stories including the lone, tall circular hall
inside the top, and the lone chamber in the
basement. In between are two floors each
containing 12 to 15 palatial rooms. Below the
marble plinth reaching down to the river at the
rear are two more stories in red stone. They
may be seen from the river bank. The seventh
storey must be below the ground (river) level
since every ancient Hindu building had a
subterranian storey.
67. Immediately bellow the marble plinth on the
river flank are 22 rooms in red stone with their
ventilators all walled up by Shahjahan. Those
rooms, made uninhibitably by Shahjahan, are kept
locked by Archealogy Department of India. The
lay visitor is kept in the dark about them.
Those 22 rooms still bear ancient Hindu paint
on their walls and ceilings. On their side is a
nearly 33 feet long corridor. There are two
door frames one at either end ofthe corridor.
But those doors are intriguingly sealed with
brick and lime.
68. Apparently those doorways originally sealed
by Shahjahan have been since unsealed and again
walled up several times. In 1934 a resident of
Delhi took a peep inside from an opening in the upper
part of the doorway. To his dismay he saw huge hall
inside. It contained many statues huddled around a
central beheaded image of Lord Shiva. It could be
that, in there, are Sanskrit inscriptions too. All
the seven stories of the Tajmahal need to be
unsealed and scoured to ascertain what evidence
they may be hiding in the form of Hindu images,
Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures, coins and
utensils.
69. Apart from Hindu images hidden in the sealed
stories it is also learnt that Hindu images are
also stored in the massive walls of the Taj.
Between 1959 and 1962 when Mr. S.R. Rao was the
Archealogical Superintendent in Agra, he
happened to notice a deep and wide crack in the
wall of the central octagonal chamber of the Taj.
When a part of the wall was dismantled to study
the crack out popped two or three marble images.
The matter was hushed up and the images were
reburied where they had been embedded at
Shahjahan's behest. Confirmation of this has
been obtained from several sources. It was only
when I began my investigation into the
antecedents of the Taj I came across the above
information which had remained a forgotten
secret. What better proof is needed of the
Temple origin of the Tajmahal? Its walls and
sealed chambers still hide in Hindu idols that
were consecrated in it before Shahjahan's
seizure of the Taj.
Pre-Shahjahan References to the Taj
70. Apparently the Taj as a central palace
seems to have an chequered history. The Taj was
perhaps desecrated and looted by every Muslim
invader from Mohammad Ghazni onwards but
passing into Hindu hands off and on, the
sanctity of the Taj as a Shiva temple continued
to be revived after every muslim onslaught.
Shahjahan was the last muslim to desecrate the
Tajmahal alias Tejomahalay.
71. Vincent Smith records in his book titled
`Akbar the Great Moghul' that `Babur's
turbulent life came to an end in his garden
palace in Agra in 1630'. That palace was none
other than the Tajmahal.
72. Babur's daughter Gulbadan Begum in her
chronicle titled Humayun Nama
refers to the
Taj as the Mystic House.
73. Babur himself refers to the Taj in his
memoirs as the palace captured by Ibrahim Lodi
containing a central octagonal chamber and
having pillars on the four sides. All these
historical references allude to the Taj 100
years before Shahjahan.
74. The Tajmahal precincts extend to several
hundred yards in all directions. Across the
river are ruins of the annexes of the Taj,
the bathing ghats and a jetty for the ferry
boat. In the Victoria gardens outside covered
with creepers is the long spur of the ancient
outer wall ending in a octagonal red stone tower.
Such extensive grounds all magnificently done
up, are a superfluity for a grave.
75. Had the Taj been specially built to bury
Mumtaz, it should not have been cluttered with
other graves. But the Taj premises contain
several graves atleast in its eastern and
southern pavilions.
76. In the southern flank, on the other side of
the Tajganj gate are buried in identical
pavilions queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri
Begum and a maid Satunnisa Khanum. Such parity
burial can be justified only if the queens had
been demoted or the maid promoted. But since
Shahjahan had commandeered (not built) the Taj,
he reduced it general to a muslim cemetary as
was the habit of all his Islamic predeccssors,
and buried a queen in a vacant pavillion and a
maid in another idenitcal pavilion.
77. Shahjahan was married to several other
women before and after Mumtaz. She, therefore,
deserved no special consideration in having a
wonder mausoleum built for her.
78. Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she
did not qualify for a fairyland burial.
79. Mumtaz died in Burhanpur which is about 600
miles from Agra. Her grave there is intact.
Therefore, the centotaphs raised in stories of
the Taj in her name seem to be fakes hiding in
Hindu Shiva emblems.
80. Shahjahan seems to have simulated Mumtaz's
burial in Agra to find a pretext to surround the
temple palace with his fierce and fanatic
troops and remove all the costly fixtures in
his treasury. This finds confirmation in the
vague noting in the Badshahnama which says that
the Mumtaz's (exhumed) body was brought to Agra
from Burhanpur and buried `next year'.
An official term would not use a nebulous term
unless it is to hide some thing.
81. A pertinent consideration is that a
Shahjahan who did not build any palaces for
Mumtaz while she was alive, would not build a
fabulous mausoleum for a corpse which was no
longer kicking or clicking.
82. Another factor is that Mumtaz died within
two or three years of Shahjahan becoming an
emperor. Could he amass so much superflous
wealth in that short span as to squander it on
a wonder mausoleum?
83. While Shahjahan's special attachment to
Mumtaz is nowhere recorded in history his
amorous affairs with many other ladies from
maids to mannequins including his own daughter
Jahanara, find special attention in accounts of
Shahjahan's reign. Would Shahjahan shower his
hard earned wealth on Mumtaz's corpse?
84. Shahjahan was a stingy, usurious monarch.
He came to throne murdering all his rivals. He
was not therefore, the doting spendthrift that
he is made out to be.
85. A Shahjahan disconsolate on Mumtaz's death
is suddenly credited with a resolve to build the
Taj. This is a psychological incongruity.
Grief is a disabling, incapacitating emotion.
86. A infatuated Shahjahan is supposed to have
raised the Taj over the dead Mumtaz, but carnal,
physical sexual love is again a incapacitating
emotion. A womaniser is ipso facto incapable of
any constructive activity. When carnal love
becomes uncontrollable the person either
murders somebody or commits suicide. He cannot
raise a Tajmahal. A building like the Taj
invariably originates in an ennobling emotion
like devotion to God, to one's mother and
mother country or power and glory.
87. Early in the year 1973, chance digging in
the garden in front of the Taj revealed another
set of fountains about six feet below the
present fountains. This proved two things.
Firstly, the subterranean fountains were there
before Shahjahan laid the surface fountains.
And secondly that those fountains are aligned
to the Taj that edifice too is of pre Shahjahan
origin. Apparently the garden and its fountains
had sunk from annual monsoon flooding and lack
of maintenance for centuries during the Islamic
rule.
88. The stately rooms on the upper floor of the
Tajmahal have been striped of their marble
mosaic by Shahjahan to obtain matching marble
for raising fake tomb stones inside the Taj
premises at several places. Contrasting with
the rich finished marble ground floor rooms the
striping of the marble mosaic covering the
lower half of the walls and flooring of the
upper storey have given those rooms a naked,
robbed look. Since no visitors are allowed
entry to the upper storey this despoilation by
Shahjahan has remained a well guarded secret.
There is no reason why Shahjahan's loot of the
upper floor marble should continue to be hidden
from the public even after 200 years of
termination of Moghul rule.
89. Bernier, the French traveller has recorded
that no non muslim was allowed entry into the
secret nether chambers of the Taj because there
are some dazzling fixtures there. Had those
been installed by Shahjahan they should have
been shown the public as a matter of pride.
But since it was commandeered Hindu wealth
which Shahjahan wanted to remove to his
treasury, he didn't want the public to know
about it.
90. The approach to Taj is dotted with hillocks
raised with earth dugout from foundation
trenches. The hillocks served as outer defences
of the Taj building complex. Raising such
hillocks from foundation earth, is a common
Hindu device of hoary origin. Nearby Bharatpur
provides a graphic parallel.
Peter Mundy has recorded that Shahjahan
employed thousands of labourers to level some
of those hillocks. This is a graphic proof of
the Tajmahal existing before Shahjahan.
91. At the backside of the river bank is a
Hindu crematorium, several palaces, Shiva
temples and bathings of ancient origin.
Had Shahjahan built the Tajmahal, he would have
destroyed the Hindu features.
92. The story that Shahjahan wanted to build a
Black marble Taj across the river, is another
motivated myth. The ruins dotting the other
side of the river are those of Hindu structures
demolished during muslim invasions and not the
plinth of another Tajmahal. Shahjahan who did
not even build the white Tajmahal would hardly
ever think of building a black marble Taj. He
was so miserly that he forced labourers to work
gratis even in the superficial tampering
neccesary to make a Hindu temple serve as a
Muslim tomb.
93. The marble that Shahjahan used for grafting
Koranic lettering in the Taj is of a pale white
shade while the rest of the Taj is built of a
marble with rich yellow tint. This disparity is
proof of the Koranic extracts being a
superimposition.
94. Though imaginative attempts have been made
by some historians to foist some fictitious
name on history as the designer of the Taj
others more imaginative have credited Shajahan
himself with superb architechtural proficiency
and artistic talent which could easily concieve
and plan the Taj even in acute bereavment. Such
people betray gross ignorance of history in as
much as Shajahan was a cruel tyrant ,a great
womaniser and a drug and drink addict.
95. Fanciful accounts about Shahjahan
commisioning the Taj are all confused. Some
asserted that Shahjahan ordered building
drawing from all over the world and chose one
from among them. Others assert that a man at
hand was ordered to design a mausoleum amd his
design was approved. Had any of those versions
been true Shahjahan's court papers should have
had thousands of drawings concerning the Taj.
But there is not even a single drawing. This is
yet another clinching proof that Shahjahan did
not commision the Taj.
96. The Tajmahal is surrounded by huge mansions
which indicate that several battles have been
waged around the Taj several times.
97. At the south east corner of the Taj is an
ancient royal cattle house. Cows attached to
the Tejomahalay temple used to reared there. A
cowshed is an incongruity in an Islamic tomb.
98. Over the western flank of the Taj are
several stately red stone annexes. These are
superflous for a mausoleum.
99. The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to
500 rooms. Residential accomodation on such a
stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.
100. The neighbouring Tajganj township's massive
protective wall also encloses the Tajmahal
temple palace complex. This is a clear
indication that the Tejomahalay temple palace
was part and parcel of the township.
A street of that township leads straight into
the Tajmahal. The Tajganj gate is aligned in a
perfect straight line to the octagonal red stone
garden gate and the stately entrance arch of
the Tajmahal. The Tajganj gate besides being
central to the Taj temple complex, is also put
on a pedestal. The western gate by which the
visitors enter the Taj complex is a
camparatively minor gateway. It has become the
entry gate for most visitors today because the
railway station and the bus station are on that
side.
101. The Tajmahal has pleasure pavillions which
a tomb would never have.
102. A tiny mirror glass in a gallery of the
Red Fort in Agra reflects the Taj mahal.
Shahjahan is said to have spent his last eight
years of life as a prisoner in that gallery
peering at the reflected Tajmahal and sighing
in the name of Mumtaz. This myth is a blend of
many falsehoods. Firstly, old Shajahan was held
prisoner by his son Aurangzeb in the basement
storey in the Fort and not in an open,
fashionable upper storey. Secondly, the glass
piece was fixed in the 1930's by Insha Allah
Khan, a peon of the archaelogy dept.just to
illustrate to the visitors how in ancient times
the entire apartment used to scintillate with
tiny mirror pieces reflecting the Tejomahalay
temple a thousand fold. Thirdly, a old decrepit
Shahjahan with pain in his joints and cataract
in his eyes, would not spend his day craning
his neck at an awkward angle to peer into a
tiny glass piece with bedimmed eyesight when he
could as well his face around and have full,
direct view of the Tjamahal itself. But the
general public is so gullible as to gulp all
such prattle of wily, unscrupulous guides.
103. That the Tajmahal dome has hundreds of iron
rings sticking out of its exterior is a feature
rarely noticed. These are made to hold Hindu
earthen oil lamps for temple illumination.
104. Those putting implicit faith in Shahjahan
authorship of the Taj have been imagining
Shahjahan-Mumtaz to be a soft hearted
romantic pair like Romeo and Juliet.
But contemporary accounts speak of Shahjahan as
a hard hearted ruler who was constantly egged
on to acts of tyranny and cruelty, by Mumtaz.
105. School and College history carry the myth
that Shahjahan reign was a golden period in
which there was peace and plenty and that
Shahjahan commisioned many buildings and
patronized literature. This is pure fabrication.
Shahjahan did not commision even a single building
as we have illustrated by a detailed analysis of the
Tajmahal legend. Shahjahn had to enrage in 48
military campaigns during a reign of nearly 30 years
which proves that his was not a era of peace and
plenty.
106. The interior of the dome rising over
Mumtaz's centotaph has a representation of Sun
and cobras drawn in gold. Hindu warriors trace
their origin to the Sun. For an Islamic
mausoleum the Sun is redundant. Cobras are
always associated with Lord Shiva.
Forged Documents
107. The muslim caretakers of the tomb in the
Tajmahal used to possess a document which they
styled as Tarikh-i-Tajmahal. Historian H.G.
Keene has branded it as a document of
doubtful authenticity. Keene was uncannily
right since we have seen that Shahjahan not
being the creator of the Tajmahal any document
which credits Shahjahn with the Tajmahal, must
be an outright forgery. Even that forged
document is reported to have been smuggled out
of Pakistan. Besides such forged documents
there are whole chronicles on the Taj which are
pure concoctions.
108. There is lot of sophistry and casuistry or
atleast confused thinking associated with the
Taj even in the minds of proffesional historians,
archaelogists and architects. At the outset they
assert that the Taj is entirely Muslim in design.
But when it is pointed out that its lotus capped
dome and the four corner pillars etc. are all
entirely Hindu those worthies shift ground and
argue that that was probably because the workmen
were Hindu and were to introduce their own patterns.
Both these arguments are wrong because Muslim accounts
claim the designers to be Muslim, and the workers
invariably carry out the employer's dictates.
The Taj is only a typical illustration of how
all historic buildings and townships from
Kashmir to Cape Comorin though of Hindu origin
have been ascribed to this or that Muslim ruler
or courtier.
It is hoped that people the world over who study
Indian history will awaken to this new finding
and revise their erstwhile beliefs.
Those interested in an indepth study of the
above and many other revolutionary rebuttals
may read Shri P.N. Oak's other
research books.