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- Subject: The Taj Mahal is a Hindu Temple - Part 1 of 6.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.171046.8852@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Keywords: Taj Mahal, Hindu, temple
- Organization: University of New Brunswick
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:10:46 GMT
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- *********** THE TRUTH BEHIND THE FAMOUS TAJMAHAL ***********
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- by Shri P. N. Oak.
- (Copyright)
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- THE TAJ MAHAL IS A HINDU TEMPLE
-
- Probably there is no one who has been duped at least once
- in a lifetime. But can the whole world can be duped? This
- may seem impossible. But in the matter of Indian and world
- history the world can be duped in many respects for hundreds
- of years and still continues to be duped. The world famous
- Tajmahal is a glaring instance. For all the time, money and
- energy that people over the world spend in visiting the
- Tajmahal, they are dished out of concoction. 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
- Tajmahal, 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 verandahs, ter-
- races, 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 sanctorium 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 "The Tajmahal is a
- Temple Palace". But let us place before you, for the time
- being an exhaustive summary of the massive evidence ranging
- over hundred points:
-
- 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-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 cenotaph inside it. This would help
- people to realize that all dead muslim courtiers and royalty
- including Humayun, Akbar, Mumtaz, Etmad-ud-Daula and Safdar-
- jang 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
- Tejo-Mahalay 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 neces-
- sity in a cemetery.
-
- 11.Visitors may notice that the base slab of the cenotaph
- is the marble basement in plain white while its superstruc-
- ture and the other three cenotaphs 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 cenotaphs 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 keep-
- ing 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 espe-
- cially during the month of Shravan. During the last few cen-
- turies the residents of Agra had to be content with worship-
- ping 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 Nag-
- natheshwar 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 Illus-
- trated 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.
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