From: c4sg@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
Subject: The Taj Mahal is a Hindu Temple - Part 1 of 6.
Keywords: Taj Mahal, Hindu, temple
Organization: University of New Brunswick
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:10:46 GMT


*********** THE TRUTH BEHIND THE FAMOUS TAJMAHAL ***********

                    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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