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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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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
