Tejo Mahalay!!

Evidence that Taj Mahal is actually Tejo Mahalay!

Thought provoking facts. Do read
1. The term Taj Mahal never occurs in any Mogul court paper even in Aurangzeb’s time.

2. The famous Hindu book on architecture, Viswa-karma Vastushastra mentions the

‘Tej Linga’ amongst Shiva Lingas. Such a Teja Linga was consecrated in the Taj Mahal hence the term Taj Mahal or Tejo Mahalaya.

3. Both ‘Taj' and 'Mahal’ are of Sanskritic origin. Mahal in Hindu tradition signifies a mansion. Taj is the popular corruption of the word ‘Tej’

meaning splendour. In no Muslim country from Afghanistan to Abyssinia, is any edifice described as Mahal.

4. If the Taj is believed to be a burial place how can the term ‘Mahal’ i.e. ‘mansion’, apply to it?

5. The other explanation is that the term ‘Taj Mahal’ derives from

Mumtaz Mahal. This is absurd her name was never Mumtaz Mahal but Arjumand Banu Begum alias Mumtaz-ul-Zamani, as in Shahjahan’s official court chronicle, the Badshahnama.

6. Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient centre of Shiva worship. Its residents have

through the ages worshiped five Shiva shrines during the month of Shravan. During the last few centuries residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent Shiva temples viz. Balkeshwar, Prithvinath Manakameshwar and Rajarajesh-war. They had lost

track of the fifth Shiva deity which their forefathers worshipped. Apparently the fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev i. e. Tejo-Mahalaya alias Taj Mahal.

7. The Jats of Agra call Shivji is Tejaji. The Jat special issue of the Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28, 1971) mentions that

the Jats have Teja Mandirs i. e. Teja temples. This is because Teja Linga is one among several names of Shiva Lingas mentioned in Hindu architectural texts.

8. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the above conclusion. Known as the Bateshwar inscription it is currently

preserved in 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 Kailas—his usual abode”. This inscription was found within a radius of about 36 miles from the Taj Mahal.

The inscription is dated 1155 A.D. From this it is clear that the Taj Mahal was built at least 500 years before Shahjahan.

9. Shahjahan’s own court chronicle, the Badshahnama admits (on page 403, Vol. I) that a grand mansion of unique splendour, capped with a dome, (imaarat-e-

alishan wa gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisingh for Mumtaz’s burial.

10. The plaque put up by the archaeology department outside the Taj Mahal describes the edifice as a mausoleum built by Shahjahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, over 22 years from 1631 to 1653.

The plaque cites no authority for its claim. Secondly, the lady’s name was Mumtaz-ul-Zamani and not Mumtaz Mahal. Thirdly, the period of 22 years is taken from some unreliable French visitor Tavernier, to the exclusion of all Muslim versions, which is an absurdity.

11. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur retains in his secret personal custody 2 orders from Shahjahan dated December 18, 1633 (bearing modern numbers K. D. 176 and 177) requisitioning the Taj building complex. That was so blatant a usurpation that the then ruler of Jaipur was ashamed to

make the documents public.

12. The Rajasthan State Archives at Bikaner preserves three other farmans addressed by Shahjahan to Jaipur’s ruler Jaisingh ordering the latter to supply marble from his Makrana quarries, and stone cutters. Jaisingh was apparently so enraged at the

blatant seizure of the Taj Mahal that he refused to oblige Shahjahan by providing marble for grafting Koranic engravings and false tombs for further desecration of the Taj Mahal. Jaisingh looked upon Shahjahan’s demand for marble and stone cutters, as an insult added to injury.

13. The three farmans demanding marble were sent to Jaisingh within about two years of Mumtaz’s death. Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal over a period of 22 years the marble would have been needed only after 15 or 20 years and not immediately after Mumtaz’s death.

14. Moreover, the 3 farmans mention neither the Taj Mahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the burial. The cost and the quantity of stone required also are not mentioned. This proves that an insignificant quantity of marble was needed just for some superficial tinkering and tampering

with the Taj Mahal.

15. 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.

16. Well known western authorities on architecture like E. B. Havell, Mrs.

Kenoyer and Sir W. W. Hunter have gone on record to say that the Taj Mahal is built in the Hindu temple style. Havell points out that the ground plan of the ancient Hindu Chandi Seva temple in Java is identical with that of the Taj.

17. A central dome with cupolas at its four

corners is a universal feature of Hindu temples.

18. The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style. They were used as lamp towers during the night and as watch towers during the day.

19. 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.

20. The Taj Mahal has a trident pinnacle over the dome. 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 may be 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 Mahal.

Contrarily the pinnacle is a marvel of Hindu metallurgy since the pinnacle made of a non rusting alloy, is also perhaps a lightning deflector.

21. The embossed patterns on the marble exterior are foliage of the conch shell design and the Hindu letter ‘OM’. The octagonally laid

marble lattices inside the chambers depict pink lotuses on their top railing. The lotus, the OM and the conch shell are sacred motifs associated with Hindu deities and temples.

22. Above Mumtaz’s cenotaph, hangs a chain by which now hangs a lamp. Before capture, the

chain used to hold a water pitcher from which water used to drip on the Shiva Linga.

24. Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal , history would have recorded a specific date on which she was ceremoniously buried in the Taj Mahal. No such date is ever mentioned.

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