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Shahjahan origin. Apparently the garden and its fountains had sunk from
annual monsoon flooding and lack of maintenance for centuries during the Islamic rule.

89. The stately rooms on the upper floor of the Tajmahal have been
striped of their marble mosaic by Shahjahan to obtain matching marble for raising fake tomb stones inside the Taj premises at several places.
Contrasting with the rich finished marble ground floor rooms the striping
of the marble mosaic covering the lower half of the walls and flooring of
the upper storey have given those rooms a naked, robbed look. Since no visitors are allowed entry to the upper storey this despoilation by
Shahjahan has remained a well guarded secret. There is no reason why Shahjahan's loot of the upper floor marble should continue to be hidden
from the public even after 200 years of termination of Moghul rule.

90. Bernier, the French traveller has recorded that no non-muslim was
allowed entry into the secret nether chambers of the Taj because there
are some dazzling fixtures there. Had those been installed by Shahjahan
they should have been shown the public as a matter of pride. But since
it was commandeered Hindu wealth which Shahjahan wanted to remove to his treasury, he didn't want the public to know about it.

91. The approach to Taj is dotted with hillocks raised with earth dugout
from foundation trenches. The hillocks served as outer defences of the
Taj building complex. Raising such hillocks from foundation earth, is a
common Hindu device of hoary origin. Nearby Bharatpur provides a graphic parallel.

Peter Mundy has recorded that Shahjahan employed thousands of labourers
to level some of those hillocks. This is a graphic proof of the Tajmahal existing before Shahjahan.

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93. At the backside of the river bank is a Hindu crematorium, several
palaces, Shiv temples and bathings of ancient origin. Had Shahjahan
built the Tajmahal, he would have destroyed the Hindu features.

94. The story that Shahjahan wanted to build a Black marble Taj across
the river, is another motivated myth. The ruins dotting the other side of
the river are those of Hindu structures demolished during muslim
invasions and not the plinth of another Tajmahal. Shahjahan who did not
even build the white Tajmahal would hardly ever think of building a black marble Taj. He was so miserly that he forced labourers to work gratis
even in the superficial tampering neccesary to make a Hindu temple serve
as a Muslim tomb.

95. The marble that Shahjahan used for grafting Koranic lettering in the
Taj is of a pale white shade while the rest of the Taj is built of a
marble with rich yellow tint. This disparity is proof of the Koranic
extracts being a superimposition.

96. Though imaginative attempts have been made by some historians to
foist some fictitious name on history as the designer of the Taj others
more imaginative have credited Shajahan himself with superb
architechtural proficiency and artistic talent which could easily
concieve and plan the Taj even in acute bereavment. Such people betray
gross ignorance of history in as much as Shajahan was a cruel tyrant ,a
great womaniser and a drug and drink addict.

97. Fanciful accounts about Shahjahan commisioning the Taj are all
confused. Some asserted that Shahjahan ordered building drawing from all
over the world and chose one from among them. Others assert that a man
at hand was ordered to design a mausoleum amd his design was approved.
Had any of those versions been true Shahjahan's court papers should have
had thousands of drawings concerning the Taj. But there is not even a
single drawing. This is yet another clinching proof that Shahjahan did
not commision the Taj.

98. The Tajmahal is surrounded by huge mansions which indicate that
several battles have been waged around the Taj several times.

99. At the south east corner of the Taj is an ancient royal cattle house.
Cows attached to the Tejomahalay temple used to reared there. A cowshed
is an incongruity in an Islamic tomb.

100. Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red stone
annexes. These are superflous for a mausoleum.

101. The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms. Residential accomodation on such a stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.

102. The neighbouring Tajganj township's massive protective wall also
encloses the Tajmahal temple palace complex. This is a clear indication
that the Tejomahalay temple palace was part and parcel of the township.
A street of that township leads straight into the Tajmahal. The Tajganj
gate is aligned in a perfect straight line to the octagonal red stone
garden gate and the stately entrance arch of the Tajmahal. The Tajganj
gate besides being central to the Taj temple complex, is also put on a pedestal. The western gate by which the visitors enter the Taj complex
is a camparatively minor gateway. It has become the entry gate for most visitors today because the railway station and the bus station are on
that side.

103. The Tajmahal has pleasure pavillions which a tomb would never have.

104. A tiny mirror glass in a gallery of the Red Fort in Agra reflects
the Taj mahal. Shahjahan is said to have spent his last eight years of
life as a prisoner in that gallery peering at the reflected Tajmahal and sighing in the name of Mumtaz. This myth is a blend of many falsehoods. Firstly, old Shajahan was held prisoner by his son Aurangzeb in the
basement storey in the Fort and not in an open,fashionable upper storey. Secondly, the glass piece was fixed in the 1930's by Insha Allah Khan, a
peon of the archaelogy dept. just to illustrate to the visitors how in
ancient times the entire apartment used to scintillate with tiny mirror
pieces reflecting the Tejomahalay temple a thousand fold. Thirdly, a old decrepit Shahjahan with pain in his joints and cataract in his eyes,
would not spend his day craning his neck at an awkward angle to peer into
a tiny glass piece with bedimmed eyesight when he could as well his face
around and have full,direct view of the Tjamahal itself. But the general public is so gullible as to gulp all such prattle of wily, unscrupulous
guides.

105. That the Tajmahal dome has hundreds of iron rings sticking out of
its exterior is a feature rarely noticed. These are made to hold Hindu
earthen oil lamps for temple illumination.

106. Those putting implicit faith in Shahjahan authorship of the Taj have
been imagining Shahjahan-Mumtaz to be a soft-hearted romantic pair like
Romeo and Juliet. But contemporary accounts speak of Shahjahan as a hard hearted ruler who was constantly egged on to acts of tyranny and cruelty,
by Mumtaz.

107. School and College history carry the myth that Shahjahan reign was a golden period in which there was peace and plenty and that Shahjahan commisioned many buildings and patronized literature. This is pure fabrication. Shahjahan did not commision even a single building as we
have illustrated by a detailed analysis of the Tajmahal legend. Shahjahn
had to enrage in 48 military campaigns during a reign of nearly 30 years
which proves that his was not a era of peace and plenty.

108. The interior of the dome rising over Mumtaz's centotaph has a representation of Sun and cobras drawn in gold. Hindu warriors trace
their origin to the Sun. For an Islamic mausoleum the Sun is redundant.
Cobras are always associated with Lord Shiv.

109. The muslim caretakers of the tomb in the Tajmahal used to possess a document which they styled as "Tarikh-i-Tajmahal". Historian H. G. Keene
has branded it as 'a document of doubtful authenticity'. Keene was
uncannily right since we have seen that Shahjahan not being the creator
of the Tajmahal any document which credits Shahjahn with the Tajmahal,
must be an outright forgery. Even that forged document is reported to
have been smuggled out of Pakistan. Besides such forged documents there
are whole chronicles on the Taj which are pure concoctions.

110. There is lot of sophistry and casuistry or atleast confused thinking associated with the Taj even in the minds of proffesional historians, archaelogists and architects. At the outset they assert that the Taj is entirely Muslim in design. But when it is pointed out that its lotus
capped dome and the four corner pillars etc. are all entirely Hindu those worthies shift ground and argue that that was probably because the
workmen were Hindu and were to introduce their own patterns. Both these arguments are wrong because Muslim accounts claim the designers to be Muslim,and the workers invariably carry out the employer's dictates.

The Taj is only a typical illustration of how all historic buildings and townships from Kashmir to Cape Comorin though of Hindu origin have been ascribed to this or that Muslim ruler or courtier.

It is hoped that people the world over who study Indian history will
awaken to this new finding and revise their erstwhile beliefs.

Those interested in an in-depth study of the above and many other
revolutionary rebuttals may read this author's other research books.

Tajmahal - The True Story authored by Shri P. N. Oak can be ordered from:

A. Ghosh Publisher
5720 W. Little York 216
Houston, Texas 77091
USA

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