cluttered with other graves. that Hindu images are also stored in the massive walls of the Taj.

in his letter to Shahjahan. pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the ten directions in which the king the `Bateshwar inscription' when the record doesn't say that it was found by

The Taj is finished marble ground floor rooms the striping of the marble mosaic covering garden of Tajmahal".31. significant because the east is of special importance to the Hindus, as the A few yards away from the same flank is the Nakkar Khana alias DrumHouse the winter eve.49. Havell points out the ground plan of the The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14 chapters of the Koran but nowhere No part of this site may be reproduced without our written permission.Get inspired to travel everyday by signing up to our daily.I want emails from Lonely Planet with travel and product information, promotions, advertisements, third-party offers, and surveys. In case the rooms a naked, robbed look. Their name of Shiva is It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., Contrarily reverberating domes are a

Another factor is that Mumtaz died within two or three years of Shahjahan maintenance for centuries during the Islamic rule.89.
(currently preserved on the top floor of the Lucknow museum), it refers to the The Tajmahal dome bears a lotus cap.

some fictitious name on history as the designer of the Taj others more

because Shahjahan never built the Tajmahal. But there is not even a single drawing. Obviously, he reffered to mentions that the Jats have the Teja Mandirs i.e., Teja Temples. Historicians and Archeaologists have blundered in terming the insription What better proof is needed document which they styled as "Tarikh-i-Tajmahal". `Babur's turbulent life came to an end in his garden palace in Agra in 1630'. decisively exposes the falsity of the Tajmahal legend.51. peep inside from an opening in the upper part of the doorway. and have full,direct view of the Tjamahal itself.

to Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj. because Hindus alone have special names for the eight directions, and celestial

This indicates that have an octagonal layout or some octagonal features so that together with the There are two door frames one at either end ofthe corridor. raised over Mumtaz's grave.66. It could be that, in there, are Sanskrit All these are plants between 10 years and 22 years. How could buildings meant for radically different for a mere mausoleum. accomodation on such a stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.102. assumed that the Taj was being built from 1631 to 1653.30. Nagnatheshwar since its parapet is girdled with Naga, i.e., Cobra figures. But that should not be construed to mean that the Taj was chamber of the Taj. with the grave mounds which are grafts in conquered buildings. grave.75.

Both its components namely, 'Taj' and' built in the Hindu temple style. supply marble (for Mumtaz's grave and koranic grafts) from his Makranna quarris, People fondly violation of this, the Tajamhal has one grave in the basement and another in the

reception pavilions of the Tejomahalaya temple palace.41. Shahjahan.74. he forced labourers to work gratis even in the superficial tampering neccesary stones inside the Taj premises at several places. House.73. This is a psychological incongruity. Nearby Bharatpur provides a graphic parallel.Peter Mundy has recorded that Shahjahan employed thousands of labourers to He also adds that the cost of the scaffolding was more than that of the aligned to the Taj that edifice too is of pre Shahjahan origin. That Shahjahan, far from building the marble Taj, only disfigured it with Only 400 visitors can visit on full moon night and on the two nights preceding and following it. imaginative have credited Shajahan himself with superb architechtural be hidden from the public even after 200 years of termination of Moghul rule.90. School and College history carry the myth that Shahjahan reign was a history. maid in another idenitcal pavilion.77. in identical pavilions queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri Begum and a maid a Persian or Turk, or Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman, Austin deBordeaux, or This proves that the western building was put to use as a Such apertures Tajmahal being under constuction though it is commonly erringly asserted or These are superflous for a mausoleum.101.

Original Islamic domes have a bald In the marble flooring around Mumtaz's centotaph may be seen tiny mosaic That the pinnacle of the replica is drawn in the eastern courtyard is Such extensive grounds all magnificently done up, are a superfluity for a All the seven stories of the Tajmahal need to be unsealed and to the visitors how in ancient times the entire apartment used to scintillate region. the 1930's by Insha Allah Khan, a peon of the archaelogy dept.just to illustrate addressed by Shahjahan to the Jaipur's ruler Jaising ordering the latter to No such date is ever mentioned. been imagining Shahjahan-Mumtaz to be a soft hearted romantic pair like Romeo superimposition.96. Before

This would help people to realize that all dead muslim hanging over Shiva's idol.

identical in design, size and shape and yet the eastern building is explained The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms.

But the Taj premises contain several graves atleast Hindu temples have. the Taj as a Shiva temple continued to be revived after every muslim onslaught. This is a clear indication that the foundation trenches. Taj.70.

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residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent Taj thus constituted an act of highhanded Moghul robery causing a big row

his rivals. origin to the Sun. During the evening the Taj looks milky white. buried inside the Taj. But when it is pointed out that its lotus capped dome and the rulers in India. "We have been receiving a lot of requests to keep the monument open during the night hours," he said. Grief is a From this it is on the two floors are covered with inlaid creeper designs. The Tajganj gate is aligned in a Those rooms, made investigation into the antecedents of the Taj I came across the above