Tajmahal : The True Story



The story of the Taj Mahal that most of us have known about may not be the real truth. Herein Mr.
P. N. Oak presents an interesting set of proofs that show a completely different story. Contrary to
what visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva
Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation Moghul emperor Shahjahan
commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur. The Taj Mahal, should therefore, be viewed as a
temple palace and not as a tomb. That makes a vast difference. You miss the details of its size,
grandeur, majesty and beauty when you take it to be a mere tomb. When told that you are visiting a
temple palace you wont fail to notice its annexes, ruined defensive walls, hillocks, moats, cascades,
fountains, majestic garden, hundreds of rooms archaded verendahs, terraces, multi stored towers,
secret sealed chambers, guest rooms, stables, the trident (Trishul) pinnacle on the dome and the
sacred, esoteric Hindu letter "OM" carved on the exterior of the wall of the sanctum sanctorum now
occupied by the cenotaphs. For detailed proof of this breath taking discovery, you may read the well
known historian Shri. P. N. Oak's celebrated book titled " Tajmahal : The True Story". But let us place
before you, for the time being an exhaustive summary of the massive evidence ranging over
hundred points:

 10 POINTS IN SHORT :




 Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient center 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 during the month of Shravan. However, during the last few centuries, the residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent Shiva temples, which are Balkeshwar, Prithvinath, Manakameshwar, and Rajarajeshwar. Sadly, 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.

 The people who dominate the Agra region are Jats and their name for Shivaji 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 Linga. From this, it is apparent that the Taj-Mahal is Tejo-Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.

 The octagonal shape of the Taj Mahal 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 netherworld. Hindu forts, cities, palaces, and temples generally 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. A central dome with octagonal cupolas at its four corners is a common feature of Hindu temples.

 The Taj Mahal has identical entrance arches on all four sides. This is a typical Hindu building style known as Chaturmukhi, i.e. four-faced. Chaturmukhi style is mainly seen in Jain temples in India and Hindu temples of Southeast Asia. Here, the size & scale of the central structure and its form/elevation is completely different from that of the Taj as can be seen in examples below. The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style. They are used as lamp towers during the night and watch towers during the day. Such towers serve to demarcate the holy precincts. Hindu wedding altars and the altar set up for God Satyanarayan worship have pillars raised at the four corners. The Taj Mahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an Islamic building it should have faced the west.

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. Also, 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.

 A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the carbon 14 test by an American Laboratory, has revealed that the door to be 300 years older than Shahjahan, since the doors of the Taj, broken open by Muslim invaders repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to b replaced from time to time. The Taj edifice is much more older. It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost 500 years anterior to Shahjahan.

Description of the gardens around the Taj of Shahjahan’s time mentions 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 cemetery 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.

The term Taj Mahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle even in Aurangzeb’s time. Since the term Taj Mahal does not occur in mogul courts it is absurd to search for any mogul explanation for it. Also, 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.

The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in Shahjahan’s court papers because Shahjahan could have never built the Taj Mahal. That is why wild estimates of the cost by gullible writers have ranged from 4 million to 91.7 million rupees.Twenty thousand laborers 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 labor muster rolls, daily expenditure sheets, bills and receipts of material ordered, and commissioning orders. There is not even a scrap of paper of this kind.

The second name, ‘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’. Moreover, if the Taj is believed to be a burial place, how can the term Mahal? Both its components namely, ‘Taj’ and’ Mahal’ are of Sanskrit origin.

We know Taj Mahal as a symbol of Love. But the other lesser known facts:

1. Mumtaz was Shajahan's 4th wife out of his 7 wives.
2. Shahjahan killed Mumtaz's husband to marry her.
3. Mumtaz died in her 14th delivery.
4. He then married her sister.

Question arises, where the hell is the Love?

NAME

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-ulZamani
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 'TejLinga'
amongst the Shivalingas i.e., the stone emblems of Lord Shiva, the Hindu deity. Such a Tej
Linga was consecrated in the Taj Mahal, hence the term Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya.

16.Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient centre of Shiva worship. Its orthodox
residents have through ages continued the tradition of worshipping at five Shiva shrines before
taking the last meal every night especially during the month of Shravan. During the last few
centuries the residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent Shiva
temples viz., Balkeshwar, Prithvinath, Manakameshwar and Rajarajeshwar. They had lost track of the
fifth Shiva deity which their forefathers worshipped. Apparently the fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev
Nagnatheshwar i.e., The Lord Great God of Agra, The Deity of the King of Cobras, consecrated in the
Tejomahalay alias Tajmahal.

17.The people who dominate the Agra region are Jats. Their name of Shiva is Tejaji. The Jat special
issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28,1971) mentions that the Jats have the Teja Mandirs
i.e., Teja Temples. This is because Teja-Linga is among the several names of the Shiva Lingas. From
this it is apparent that the Taj-Mahal is Tejo-Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.


DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE


18. Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol 1) that a grand
mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome (Imaarat-a-Alishan wa Gumbaze) was taken from
the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and the building was known as Raja Mansingh's
palace.

19. The plaque put the archealogy department outside the Tajmahal describes the edifice as a
mausoleum built by Shahjahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal , over 22 years from 1631 to 1653. That
plaque is a specimen of historical bungling. Firstly, the plaque sites no authority for its claim.
Secondly the lady's name was Mumtaz-ulZamani and not Mumtazmahal. Thirdly, the period of 22
years is taken from some mumbo jumbo noting by an unreliable French visitor Tavernier, to the
exclusion of all muslim versions, which is an absurdity.

20. Prince Aurangzeb's letter to his father,emperor Shahjahan,is recorded in atleast three chronicles
titled `Aadaab-e-Alamgiri', `Yadgarnama', and the `Muruqqa-i-Akbarabadi' (edited by Said Ahmed,
Agra, 1931, page 43, footnote 2). In that letter Aurangzeb records in 1652 A.D itself that the several
buildings in the fancied burial place of Mumtaz were seven storeyed and were so old that they were
all leaking, while the dome had developed a crack on the northern side.Aurangzeb, therefore,
ordered immediate repairs to the buildings at his own expense while recommending to the emperor
that more elaborate repairs be carried out later. This is the proof that during Shahjahan's reign itself
that the Taj complex was so old as to need immediate repairs.

21. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur retains in his secret personal `KapadDwara' collection two orders from
Shahjahan dated Dec 18, 1633 (bearing modern nos. R.176 and 177) requestioning the Taj building
complex. That was so blatant a usurpation that the then ruler of Jaipur was ashamed to make the
document public.

22. The Rajasthan State archives at Bikaner preserve three other firmans addressed by Shahjahan to
the Jaipur's ruler Jaising ordering the latter to supply marble (for Mumtaz's grave and koranic grafts)
from his Makranna quarris, and stone cutters. Jaisingh was apparently so enraged at the blatant
seizure of the Tajmahal that he refused to oblige Shahjahan by providing marble for grafting koranic
engravings and fake centotaphs for further desecration of the Tajmahal. Jaising looked at
Shahjahan's demand for marble and stone cutters, as an insult added to injury. Therefore, he
refused to send any marble and instead detained the stone cutters in his protective custody.

23. The three firmans demanding marble were sent to Jaisingh within about two years of Mumtaz's
death. Had Shahjahan really built the Tajmahal over a period of 22 years, the marble would have
needed only after 15 or 20 years not immediately after Mumtaz's death.

24. Moreover, the three mention neither the Tajmahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the burial. The cost and the
quantity of the stone also are not mentioned. This proves that an insignificant quantity of marble
was needed just for some supercial tinkering and tampering with the Tajmahal. Even otherwise
Shahjahan could never hope to build a fabulous Tajmahal by abject dependence for marble on a non
cooperative Jaisingh.

EUROPEAN VISITOR'S ACCOUNTS



25. Tavernier, a French jeweller has recorded in his travel memoirs that Shahjahan purposely buried
Mumtaz near the Taz-i-Makan (i.e.,`The Taj building') where foriegners used to come as they do
even today so that the world may admire. He also adds that the cost of the scaffolding was more
than that of the entire work. The work that Shahjahan commissioned in the Tejomahalaya Shiva
temple was plundering at the costly fixtures inside it, uprooting the Shiva idols, planting the
centotaphs in their place on two stories, inscribing the koran along the arches and walling up six of
the seven stories of the Taj. It was this plunder, desecrating and plunderring of the rooms which
took 22 years.

26. Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra recorded in 1632 (within only a year of Mumtaz's death)
that `the places of note in and around Agra, included Taj-e-Mahal's tomb, gardens and bazaars'.He,
therefore, confirms that that the Tajmahal had been a noteworthy building even before Shahjahan.

27. De Laet, a Dutch official has listed Mansingh's palace about a mile from Agra fort, as an
outstanding building of pre shahjahan's time. Shahjahan's court chronicle, the Badshahnama
records, Mumtaz's burial in the same Mansingh's palace.

28. Bernier, a contemporary French visitor has noted that non muslim's were barred entry into the
basement (at the time when Shahjahan requisitioned Mansingh's palace) which contained a dazzling
light. Obviously, he reffered to the silver doors, gold railing, the gem studded lattice and strings of
pearl hanging over Shiva's idol. Shahjahan comandeered the building to grab all the wealth, making
Mumtaz's death a convineant pretext.

29. Johan Albert Mandelslo, who describes life in agra in 1638 (only 7 years after mumtaz's death) in
detail (in his `Voyages and Travels to West-Indies', published by John Starkey and John Basset,
London), makes no mention of the Tajmahal being under constuction though it is commonly erringly
asserted or assumed that the Taj was being built from 1631 to 1653.

SANSKIRT INSCRIPTION

30. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the conclusion that the Taj originated as a Shiva temple.
Wrongly termed as the Bateshwar inscription (currently preserved on the top floor of the Lucknow
museum), it refers to the raising of a "crystal white Shiva temple so alluring that Lord Shiva once
enshrined in it decided never to return to Mount Kailash his usual abode". That inscription dated
1155 A.D. was removed from the Tajmahal garden at Shahjahan's orders. Historicians and
Archeaologists have blundered in terming the insription the `Bateshwar inscription' when the record
doesn't say that it was found by Bateshwar. It ought, in fact, to be called `The Tejomahalaya
inscription' because it was originally installed in the Taj garden before it was uprooted and cast away
at Shahjahan's command.
A clue to the tampering by Shahjahan is found on pages 216-217, vol. 4, of Archealogiical Survey of
India Reports (published 1874) stating that a "great square black balistic pillar which, with the base
and capital of another pillar....now in the grounds of Agra,...it is well known, once stood in the
garden of Tajmahal".

MISSING ELEPHANTS

31. Far from the building of the Taj, Shahjahan disfigured it with black koranic lettering and heavily
robbed it of its Sanskrit inscription, several idols and two huge stone elephants extending their
trunks in a welcome arch over the gateway where visitors these days buy entry tickets. An
Englishman, Thomas Twinning, records (pg.191 of his book "Travels in India A Hundred Years ago")
that in November 1794 "I arrived at the high walls which enclose the Taj-e-Mahal and its
circumjacent buildings. I here got out of the palanquine and.....mounted a short flight of steps 
leading to a beautiful portal which formed the centre of this side of the `COURT OF ELEPHANTS" as
the great area was called."KORANIC PATCHES

32. The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14 chapters of the Koran but nowhere is there even  the
slightest or the remotest allusion in that Islamic overwriting to Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj.
Had Shahjahan been the builder he would have said so in so many words before beginning to quote
Koran.

33. That Shahjahan, far from building the marble Taj, only disfigured it with black lettering is
mentioned by the inscriber Amanat Khan Shirazi himself in an inscription on the building. A close
scrutiny of the Koranic lettering reveals that they are grafts patched up with bits of variegated stone
on an ancient Shiva temple.

CARBON 14 TEST



34. A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the carbon 14 test by an
American Laboratory, has revealed that the door to be 300 years older than Shahjahan,since the
doors of the Taj, broken open by Muslim invaders repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to
b replaced from time to time. The Taj edifice is much more older. It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost
500 years anterior to Shahjahan.

ARCHITECHTURAL EVIDENCE

35. Well known Western authorities on architechture like E.B.Havell, Mrs.Kenoyer and Sir
W.W.Hunterhave gone on record to say that the TajMahal is built in the Hindu temple style. Havell
points out the ground plan of the ancient Hindu Chandi Seva Temple in Java is identical with that of
the Taj.

36. A central dome with cupolas at its four corners is a universal feature of Hindu temples.
37. The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style. They are used as lamp towers
during night and watch towers during the day. Such towers serve to demarcate the holy precincts.
Hindu wedding altars and the altar set up for God Satyanarayan worship have pillars raised at the
four corners.

38. The octagonal shape of the Tajmahal has a special Hindu significance because Hindus alone have
special names for the eight directions, and celestial guards assigned to them. The pinnacle points to
the heaven while the foundation signifies to the nether world. Hindu forts, cities, palaces and
temples genrally have an octagonal layout or some octagonal features so that together with the
pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the ten directions in which the king or God holds sway,
according to Hindu belief.

39. The Tajmahal has a trident pinncle over the dome. A full scale of the trident pinnacle is inlaid in
the red stone courtyard to the east of the Taj. The central shaft of the trident depicts a "Kalash"
(sacred pot) holding two bent mango leaves and a coconut. This is a sacred Hindu motif. Identical
pinnacles have been seen over Hindu and Buddhist temples in the Himalayan region. Tridents are
also depicted against a red lotus background at the apex of the stately marble arched entrances on
all four sides of the Taj. People fondly but mistakenly believed all these centuries that the Taj
pinnacle depicts a Islamic cresent and star was a lighting conductor installed by the British rulers in
India. Contrarily, the pinnacle is a marvel of Hindu metallurgy since the pinnacle made of non rusting
alloy, is also perhaps a lightning deflector. That the pinnacle of the replica is drawn in the eastern
courtyard is significant because the east is of special importance to the Hindus, as the direction in
which the sun rises. The pinnacle on the dome has the word `Allah' on it after capture. The pinnacle
figure on the ground does not have the word Allah.

INCONSISTENCIES

40. The two buildings which face the marble Taj from the east and west are identical in design, size
and shape and yet the eastern building is explained away by Islamic tradition, as a community hall
while the western building is claimed to be a mosque. How could buildings meant for radically
different purposes be identical? This proves that the western building was put to use as a mosque
after seizure of the Taj property by Shahjahan. Curiously enough the building being explained away
as a mosque has no minaret. They form a pair af reception pavilions of the Tejomahalaya temple
palace.

41. A few yards away from the same flank is the Nakkar Khana alias DrumHouse which is a
intolerable incongruity for Islam. The proximity of the Drum House indicates that the western annex
was not originally a mosque. Contrarily a drum house is a neccesity in a Hindu temple or palace
because Hindu chores,in the morning and evening, begin to the sweet strains of music.

42. The embossed patterns on the marble exterior of the centotaph chamber wall are foilage of the
conch shell design and the Hindu letter "OM". The octagonally laid marble lattices inside the
centotaph chamber depict pink lotuses on their top railing. The Lotus, the conch and the OM are the
sacred motifs associated with the Hindu deities and temples.

43. The spot occupied by Mumtaz's centotaph was formerly occupied by the Hindu Teja Linga a lithic
representation of Lord Shiva. Around it are five perambulatory passages. Perambulation could be
done around the marble lattice or through the spacious marble chambers surrounding the
centotaph chamber, and in the open over the marble platform. It is also customary for the Hindus to
have apertures along the perambulatory passage, overlooking the deity. Such apertures exist in the
perambulatories in the Tajmahal.

44. The sanctom sanctorum in the Taj has silver doors and gold railings as Hindu temples have. It
also had nets of pearl and gems stuffed in the marble lattices. It was the lure of this wealth which
made Shahjahan commandeer the Taj from a helpless vassal Jaisingh, the then ruler of Jaipur.

45. Peter Mundy, a Englishman records (in 1632, within a year of Mumtaz's death) having seen a
gem studded gold railing around her tomb. Had the Taj been under construction for 22 years, a
costly gold railing would not have been noticed by Peter mundy within a year of Mumtaz's death.
Such costl fixtures are installed in a building only after it is ready for use. This indicates that
Mumtaz's centotaph was grafted in place of the Shivalinga in the centre of the gold railings.
Subsequently the gold railings, silver doors, nets of pearls, gem fillings etc. were all carried away to
Shahjahan's treasury. The seizure of the Taj thus constituted an act of highhanded Moghul robery
causing a big row between Shahjahan and Jaisingh.

46. In the marble flooring around Mumtaz's centotaph may be seen tiny mosaic patches. Those
patches indicate the spots where the support for the gold railings were embedded in the floor. They
indicate a rectangular fencing.

47. Above Mumtaz's centotaph hangs a chain by which now hangs a lamp. Before capture by
Shahjahan the chain used to hold a water pitcher from which water used to drip on the Shivalinga.

48. It is this earlier Hindu tradition in the Tajmahal which gave the Islamic myth of Shahjahan's love
tear dropping on Mumtaz's tomb on the full moon day of the winter eve.

TREASURY WELL

49. Between the so-called mosque and the drum house is a multistoried octagonal well with a flight
of stairs reaching down to the water level. This is a traditional treasury well in Hindu temple palaces.
Treasure chests used to be kept in the lower apartments while treasury personnel had their offices
in the upper chambers. The circular stairs made it difficult for intruders to reach down to the
treasury or to escape with it undetected or unpursued. In case the premises had to be surrendered
to a besieging enemy the treasure could be pushed into the well to remain hidden from the
conquerer and remain safe for salvaging if the place was reconquered. Such an elaborate
multistoried well is superflous for a mere mausoleum. Such a grand, gigantic well is unneccesary for
a tomb.

BURIAL DATE UNKNOWN

50. Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal as a wonder mausoleum, history would have recorded a
specific date on which she was ceremoniously buried in the Taj Mahal. No such date is ever
mentioned. This important missing detail decisively exposes the falsity of the Tajmahal legend.

51. Even the year of Mumtaz's death is unknown. It is variously speculated to be 1629, 1630, 1631 or
1632. Had she deserved a fabulous burial, as is claimed, the date of her death had not been a matter
of much speculation. In an harem teeming with 5000 women it was difficult to keep track of dates of
death. Apparently the date of Mumtaz's death was so insignificant an event, as not to merit any
special notice. Who would then build a Taj for her burial?

BASELESS LOVE STORIES

52. Stories of Shahjahan's exclusive infatuation for Mumtaz's are concoctions. They have no basis in
history nor has any book ever written on their fancied love affairs. Those stories have been invented
as an afterthought to make Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj look plausible.
COST

53. The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in Shahjahan's court papers because Shahjahan never
built the Tajmahal. That is why wild estimates of the cost by gullible writers have ranged from 4
million to 91.7 million rupees.

PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION

54. Likewise the period of construction has been guessed to be anywhere between 10 years and 22
years. There would have not been any scope for guesswork had the building construction been on
record in the court papers
.
ARCHITECTS

55. The designer of the Tajmahal is also variously mentioned as Essa Effendy, a Persian or Turk, or
Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman, Austin deBordeaux, or Geronimo Veroneo, an Italian, or
Shahjahan himself.

RECORDS DON'T EXIST

56. Twenty thousand labourers are supposed to have worked for 22 years during Shahjahan's reign
in building the Tajmahal. Had this been true, there should have been available in Shahjahan's court
papers design drawings, heaps of labour muster rolls, daily expenditure sheets, bills and receipts of
material ordered, and commisioning orders. There is not even a scrap of paper of this kind.

57. It is, therefore, court flatterers,blundering historians, somnolent archeologists, fiction writers,
senile poets, careless tourists officials and erring guides who are responsible for hustling the world
into believing in Shahjahan's mythical authorship of the Taj.

58. Description of the gardens around the Taj of Shahjahan's time mention Ketaki, Jai, Jui, Champa,
Maulashree, Harshringar and Bel. All these are plants whose flowers or leaves are used in the
worship of Hindu deities. Bel leaves are exclusively used in Lord Shiva's worship. A graveyard is
planted only with shady trees because the idea of using fruit and flower from plants in a cemetary is
abhorrent to human conscience. The presence of Bel and other flower plants in the Taj garden is
proof of its having been a Shiva temple before seizure by Shahjahan.

59. Hindu temples are often built on river banks and sea beaches. The Taj is one such built on the
bank of the Yamuna river an ideal location for a Shiva temple.

60. Prophet Mohammad has ordained that the burial spot of a muslim should be inconspicous and
must not be marked by even a single tombstone. In flagrant violation of this, the Tajamhal has one
grave in the basement and another in the first floor chamber both ascribed to Mumtaz. Those two
centotaphs were infact erected by Shahjahan to bury the two tier Shivalingas that were consecrated 
in the Taj. It is customary for Hindus to install two Shivalingas one over the other in two stories as
may be seen in the Mahankaleshwar temple in Ujjain and the Somnath temple raised by Ahilyabai in
Somnath Pattan.

61. The Tajmahal has identical entrance arches on all four sides. This is a typical Hindu building style
known as Chaturmukhi, i.e.,four faced.

THE HINDU DOME

62. The Tajmahal has a reverberating dome. Such a dome is an absurdity for a tomb which must
ensure peace and silence. Contrarily reverberating domes are a neccesity in Hindu temples because
they create an ecstatic dinmultiplying and magnifying the sound of bells, drums and pipes
accompanying the worship of Hindu deities.

63. The Tajmahal dome bears a lotus cap. Original Islamic domes have a bald top as is exemplified by
the Pakistan Embassy in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, and the domes in the Pakistan's newly built
capital Islamabad.

64. The Tajmahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an Islamic building it should have faced the
west.

TOMB IS THE GRAVE, NOT THE BUILDING

65. A widespread misunderstanding has resulted in mistaking the building for the grave.Invading
Islam raised graves in captured buildings in every country it overran. Therefore, hereafter people
must learn not to confound the building with the grave mounds which are grafts in conquered
buildings. This is true of the Tajmahal too. One may therefore admit (for arguments sake) that
Mumtaz lies buried inside the Taj. But that should not be construed to mean that the Taj was raised
over Mumtaz's grave.

66. The Taj is a seven storied building. Prince Aurangzeb also mentions this in his letter to Shahjahan.
The marble edifice comprises four stories including the lone, tall circular hall inside the top, and the
lone chamber in the basement. In between are two floors each containing 12 to 15 palatial rooms.
Below the marble plinth reaching down to the river at the rear are two more stories in red stone.
They may be seen from the river bank. The seventh storey must be below the ground (river) level
since every ancient Hindu building had a subterranian storey.

67. Immediately bellow the marble plinth on the river flank are 22 rooms in red stone with their
ventilators all walled up by Shahjahan. Those rooms, made uninhibitably by Shahjahan, are kept
locked by Archealogy Department of India. The lay visitor is kept in the dark about them. Those 22
rooms still bear ancient Hindu paint on their walls and ceilings. On their side is a nearly 33 feet long
corridor. There are two door frames one at either end ofthe corridor. But those doors are
intriguingly sealed with brick and lime.

68. Apparently those doorways originally sealed by Shahjahan have been since unsealed and again
walled up several times. In 1934 a resident of Delhi took a peep inside from an opening in the upper
part of the doorway. To his dismay he saw huge hall inside. It contained many statues huddled
around a central beheaded image of Lord Shiva. It could be that, in there, are Sanskrit inscriptions
too. All the seven stories of the Tajmahal need to be unsealed and scoured to ascertain what
evidence they may be hiding in the form of Hindu images, Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures, coins and
utensils.

69. Apart from Hindu images hidden in the sealed stories it is also learnt that Hindu images are also
stored in the massive walls of the Taj. Between 1959 and 1962 when Mr. S.R. Rao was the
Archealogical Superintendent in Agra, he happened to notice a deep and wide crack in the wall of
the central octagonal chamber of the Taj. When a part of the wall was dismantled to study the crack
out popped two or three marble images. The matter was hushed up and the images were reburied
where they had been embedded at Shahjahan's behest. Confirmation of this has been obtained from
several sources. It was only when I began my investigation into the antecedents of the Taj I came
across the above information which had remained a forgotten secret. What better proof is needed
of the Temple origin of the Tajmahal? Its walls and sealed chambers still hide in Hindu idols that
were consecrated in it before Shahjahan's seizure of the Taj.

PRE-SHAHJAHAN REFERENCES TO THE TAJ

70. Apparently the Taj as a central palace seems to have an chequered history. The Taj was perhaps
desecrated and looted by every Muslim invader from Mohammad Ghazni onwards but passing into
Hindu hands off and on, the sanctity of the Taj as a Shiva temple continued to be revived after every
muslim onslaught. Shahjahan was the last muslim to desecrate the Tajmahal alias Tejomahalay.

71. Vincent Smith records in his book titled `Akbar the Great Moghul' that `Babur's turbulent life
came to an end in his garden palace in Agra in 1630'. That palace was none other than the Tajmahal.

72. Babur's daughter Gulbadan Begum in her chronicle titled `Humayun Nama' refers to the Taj as
the Mystic House.

73. Babur himself refers to the Taj in his memoirs as the palace captured by Ibrahim Lodi containing
a central octagonal chamber and having pillars on the four sides. All these historical references
allude to the Taj 100 years before Shahjahan.

74. The Tajmahal precincts extend to several hundred yards in all directions. Across the river are
ruins of the annexes of the Taj, the bathing ghats and a jetty for the ferry boat. In the Victoria
gardens outside covered with creepers is the long spur of the ancient outer wall ending in a
octagonal red stone tower. Such extensive grounds all magnificently done up, are a superfluity for a
grave.

75. Had the Taj been specially built to bury Mumtaz, it should not have been cluttered with other
graves. But the Taj premises contain several graves atleast in its eastern and southern pavilions.

76. In the southern flank, on the other side of the Tajganj gate are buried in identical pavilions
queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri Begum and a maid Satunnisa Khanum. Such parity burial can
be justified only if the queens had been demoted or the maid promoted. But since Shahjahan had
commandeered (not built) the Taj, he reduced it general to a muslim cemetary as was the habit of all
his Islamic predeccssors, and buried a queen in a vacant pavillion and a maid in another idenitcal
pavilion.

77. Shahjahan was married to several other women before and after Mumtaz. She, therefore,
deserved no special consideration in having a wonder mausoleum built for her.

78. Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she did not qualify for a fairyland burial.

79. Mumtaz died in Burhanpur which is about 600 miles from Agra. Her grave there is intact.
Therefore ,the centotaphs raised in stories of the Taj in her name seem to be fakes hiding in Hindu
Shiva emblems.

80. Shahjahan seems to have simulated Mumtaz's burial in Agra to find a pretext to surround the
temple palace with his fierce and fanatic troops and remove all the costly fixtures in his treasury.
This finds confirmation in the vague noting in the Badshahnama which says that the Mumtaz's
(exhumed) body was brought to Agra from Burhanpur and buried `next year'. An official term would
not use a nebulous term unless it is to hide some thing.

81. A pertinent consideration is that a Shahjahan who did not build any palaces for Mumtaz while
she was alive, would not build a fabulous mausoleum for a corpse which was no longer kicking or
clicking.

82. Another factor is that Mumtaz died within two or three years of Shahjahan becoming an
emperor. Could he amass so much superflous wealth in that short span as to squander it on a
wonder mausoleum?

83. While Shahjahan's special attachment to Mumtaz is nowhere recorded in history his amorous
affairs with many other ladies from maids to mannequins including his own daughter Jahanara, find
special attention in accounts of Shahjahan's reign. Would Shahjahan shower his hard earned wealth
on Mumtaz's corpse?

84. Shahjahan was a stingy, usurious monarch. He came to throne murdering all his rivals. He was
not therefore, the doting spendthrift that he is made out to be.

85. A Shahjahan disconsolate on Mumtaz's death is suddenly credited with a resolve to build the Taj.
This is a psychological incongruity. Grief is a disabling, incapacitating emotion.

86. A infatuated Shahjahan is supposed to have raised the Taj over the dead Mumtaz, but carnal,
physical sexual love is again a incapacitating emotion. A womaniser is ipso facto incapable of any
constructive activity. When carnal love becomes uncontrollable the person either murders
somebody or commits suicide. He cannot raise a Tajmahal. A building like the Taj invariably 
originates in an ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to one's mother and mother country or
power and glory.

87. Early in the year 1973, chance digging in the garden in front of the Taj revealed another set of
fountains about six feet below the present fountains. This proved two things. Firstly, the
subterranean fountains were there before Shahjahan laid the surface fountains. And secondly that
those fountains are aligned to the Taj that edifice too is of pre Shahjahan origin. Apparently the
garden and its fountains had sunk from annual monsoon flooding and lack of maintenance for
centuries during the Islamic rule.

89. 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.

90. 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.

91. 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.

93. 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.

94. 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.

95. 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.

96. 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 conceive and plan the Taj
even in acute bereavement. 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.

97. 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 and 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.

98. The Tajmahal is surrounded by huge mansions which indicate that several battles have been
waged around the Taj several times.

99. 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.

100. Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red stone annexes. These are superflous for
a mausoleum.

101. The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms. Residential accomodation on such a
stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.

102. 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.

103. The Tajmahal has pleasure pavilions which a tomb would never have.

104. 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.

105. 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.

106. Those putting implicit faith in Shahjahan authorship of the Taj have been imagining ShahjahanMumtaz
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.

107. School and College history carry the myth that Shahjahan reign was a golden period in which
there was peace and plenty and that Shahjahan commisioned many buildings and patronized
literature. This is pure fabrication. Shahjahan did not commision even a single building as we have 
illustrated by a detailed analysis of the Tajmahal legend. Shahjahn had to enrage in 48 military
campaigns during a reign of nearly 30 years which proves that his was not a era of peace and plenty.
108. The interior of the dome rising over Mumtaz's centotaph has a representation of Sun and
cobras drawn in gold. Hindu warriors trace their origin to the Sun. For an Islamic mausoleum the Sun
is redundant. Cobras are always associated with Lord Shiva.

FORGED DOCUMENTS

109. The Muslim caretakers of the tomb in the Tajmahal used to possess a document which they
styled as "Tarikh-i-Tajmahal". Historian H.G. Keene has branded it as `a document of doubtful
authenticity'. Keene was uncannily right since we have seen that Shahjahan not being the creator of
the Tajmahal any document which credits Shahjahn with the Tajmahal, must be an outright forgery.
Even that forged document is reported to have been smuggled out of Pakistan. Besides such forged
documents there are whole chronicles on the Taj which are pure concoctions.
110. There is lot of sophistry and casuistry or atleast confused thinking associated with the Taj even
in the minds of proffesional historians, archaelogists and architects. At the outset they assert that
the Taj is entirely Muslim in design. But when it is pointed out that its lotus capped dome and the
four corner pillars etc. are all entirely Hindu those worthies shift ground and argue that that was
probably because the workmen were Hindu and were to introduce their own patterns. Both these
arguments are wrong because Muslim accounts claim the designers to be Muslim,and the workers
invariably carry out the employer's dictates.
The Taj is only a typical illustration of how all historic buildings and townships from Kashmir to Cape
Comorin though of Hindu origin have been ascribed to this or that Muslim ruler or courtier.
It is hoped that people the world over who study Indian history will awaken to this new finding and
revise their erstwhile beliefs.


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