HIDDEN TRUTH ABOUT TAJ MAHAL BBC says about Taj Mahal---Hidden Truth - Never say it is a Tomb Aerial view of the Taj Mahal Aerial view of the Taj Mahal The interior water well Frontal view of the Taj Mahal and dome Close up of the dome with pinnacle Close up of the pinnacle Inlaid pinnacle pattern in courtyard Red lotus at apex of the entrance Rear view of the Taj & 22 apartments View of sealed doors & windows in back Typical Vedic style corridors to be continued............
A marble apartment on ground floor The OM in the flowers on the walls Staircase that leads to the lower levels 300 foot long corridor inside apartments One of the 22 rooms in the secret lower level Interior of one of the 22 secret rooms Interior of another of the locked rooms Vedic design on ceiling of a locked room Huge ventilator sealed shut with bricks Secret walled door that leads to other rooms Secret bricked door that hides more evidence Palace in Barhanpur where Mumtaz died Pavilion where Mumtaz is said to be buried No one has ever challenged it except Prof. P. N. Oak, who believes the whole 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 temple palace of Lord Shiva (then known as Tejo Mahalaya ) . In the course of his research O ak discovered that the Shiva temple palace was usurped by Shah Jahan from then Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh. In his own court ch ronicle, Badshahnama, Shah Jahan admits that an exceptionally beautiful grand mansion in Agra was taken from Jai SIngh for Mumtaz’s burial . The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur still retains in his secret collection two orders from Shah Jahan for surrendering the Taj building. Using captured temples and mansions, as a burial place for dead courtiers and royalty was a common practice among Muslim rulers. For example, Humayun,Akbar, Etmud-ud-Daula and Safdarjung are all buried in such mansions. Oak’s inquiries began with the name of Taj Mahal. He says the term ” Mahal ” has never been used for a building in any Muslim countries from Afghanisthan to Algeria . “The unusual explanation that the term Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast two respects. Firstly, her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani,” he writes. Secondly, one cannot omit the first three letters ‘Mum’ from a woman’s name to derive the remainder as the name for the building.”Taj Mahal, he claims, is a corrupt version of Tejo Mahalaya, or Lord Shiva’s Palace . Oak also says the love story of Mumtaz and Shah Jahan is a fairy tale cre ated by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan’s time corroborates the love story. Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal predates Shah Jahan’s era, and was a temple dedicated to Shiva, worshipped by Rajputs of Agra city. For example, Prof. Marvin Miller of New York took a few samples from the riverside doorway of the Taj. Carbon dating tests revealed that the door was 300 years older than Shah Jahan. European traveler Johan Albert Mandelslo,who visited Agra in 1638 (only seven years after Mumtaz’s death), describes the life of the cit y in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the Taj Mahal being built. The writings of Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra within a year of Mumtaz’s death, also suggest the Taj was a noteworthy building well before Shah Jahan’s time. Prof. Oak points out a number of design and architectural inconsistencies that support the belief of the Taj Mahal being a typical 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 the public . Oak asserts they contain a headless statue of Lord Shiva and other objects commonly used for worship rituals in Hindu temples Fearing political backlash, Indira Gandhi’s government t ried to have Prof. Oak’s book withdrawn from the bookstores, and threatened the Indian publisher of the first edition dire consequences .
Quite very old forwarded mesage. Me and my friends used to circulate it years back ...Fortunately or unfortunately thats the truth..Wat else to say...
Hello Rajesh, Thanq very much for sharing such a valuable information. Would you mind me asking do you admire Taj as anybody else even after this? God only knows the truth of the origin of Taj Mahal ! My friends always use to make fun as I was never fond of Taj Mahal, but I liked the beauty of Taj as a whole rather than following the tales. I even saw many people participate actively at the time of "Vote for Taj Mahal" to retain it as one of the wonders of the world. To be honest, now I strongly feel like seeing this for being a Hindu temple. Thanq once again !
