""The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahalbuilt the Taj Mahal. It was built in 22 years (1631 to 1653) by 20,000 artisans brought to India from all over the world! . Many peoplebelieve Ustad Isa of Iran designed it." This is what your guide probablytold you if you ever visited the Taj Mahal. This is the same story I read in my history book as a student.
NOW READ THIS.......
No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes thewhole world has been duped. In his book Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal is not Queen Mumtaz's tomb but an ancient Hindu templepalace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya). In the course of his research Oak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurpedbyShah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh.
In his own court chronicle, Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz's burial. Theex-Maharaja ofJaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from ShahJahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practiceamongMuslimrulers. For example, Humayun, Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are allburied in such mansions. Oak's inquiries began with the name of TajMahal. He says the term "Mahal" has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria.
"The unusual explanation thatthe term Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast respects. Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani," hewrites. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters 'Mum' from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name for thebuilding." TajMahal, he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva'sPalace. Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale created by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppyarchaeologists. Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates thelovestory. Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the TajMahalpredates Shah Jahan's era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva,worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Millerof NewYorktook a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. Europeantraveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only sevenyearsafter Mumtaz's death), describes the life of the city in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings ofPeter Mundy,an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz's death, alsosuggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan's time. Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architecturalinconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being atypical Hindu temple rather than a mausoleum. Many rooms in the Taj !Mahal have remained sealed since Shah Jahan's time and are still inaccessible to thepublic. Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples.
Here is a close up of the upper portion of the pinnacle of the Taj Mahal, photographed from the parapet beneath the dome. The Hindu horizontal crescent and the coconut top together look like a trident from the garden level. Islamic crescents are always oblique. Moreover they are almost always complete circles leaving a little opening for a star. This Hindu pinnacle had all these centuries been misinterpreted as an Islamic crescent and star or a lightning conductor installed by the British. The word "Allah" etched here by Shahjahan is absent in the courtyard replica. The coconut, the bent mango leaves under it and the supporting Kalash (water pot) are exclusive Hindu motifs.
Fearing political backlash,Indira Gandhi's government tried to have Prof. Oak's book withdrawnfrom the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition dire consequences. There is only one way to discredit or validate Oak's research.The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Mahal under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate. Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality.....This link ........it adds as a visual proof to what is described above.
