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BBC says about Taj Mahal---Hidden Truth
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Taj Mahal --- The Hidden Truth: BBC says about Taj Mahal---hidden

7 Mar 2006 ... BBC says about Taj Mahal---hidden truth - Leisure Reading. If u
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A5220



Real History of "Taj Mahal"

It is proved Taj Mahal is not a burial of Mumtaj but an ancient temple of Lord
Shiva. Sufficient proofs and website links are with this mail.

U can try this link (text and photo) before/after going through this mail:
http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm

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

Rear view of the Taj & 22 apartments

View of sealed doors & windows in back

Typical Vedic style corridors

The Music House--a contradiction

A locked room on upper floor

A marble apartment on ground floor

The OM in the flowers on the walls

Staircase that leads to the lower levels

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


NOW READ THIS.......

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 theTaj 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 Oak 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 . There is only one way to
discredit or validate Oak's research.

The current government should open the sealed rooms of the Taj Ma hal under
U.N.. supervision, and let international experts investigate.

Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality......

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