Taj Mahal

[desimack]

I find it beyond hard to believe nobody has mentioned this relic to love and thing of beauty!

The story of the Taj Mahal goes so.

There was a king whoose wife died giving birth to one of his many children and he made the Taj Mahal in her honour.

He had plans to build one across the water for himself in black but as soon as he got ill his sons fought for his throne and the victorious son had his dad locked away before the second Taj Mahal could be started!

Anyway admire the beauty!

[Zero]

Can anyone spot the white man in that picture? Ive seen one already!

[desimack]

LOL lots of white people go there you can't deny the beauty of the Taj Mahal man

[HussainU]

beautiful place
been loadsa times

[Guji-Ji]

amazing, never been but im deffo gonna go someday.

[desimack]

Uhmm I think I might pop down there this summer

[Guji-Ji]

Aparrently the Shah Jahan chopped the hands off of the people that made it so no one could make another one.

[desimack]

man thats interesting.

It's truly a sign of beauty man it's just amazing!

[IRFAN06]

just summat i came across.....

"The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal built the TajMahal. It was built in 22 years (1631 to 1653) by 20,000 artisans brought to India from all over the world! .Many people believe Ustad Isa of Iran designed it." This is what your guide probably told you if you ever visited the TajMahal. This is the same story I read in my history book as a student.

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 TajMahal: The True Story, Oak says the TajMahal 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 chronicle, 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 TajMahal.

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 TajMahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in at least 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."TajMahal, 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 created by court sycophants, blundering historians and sloppy archaeologists.

Not a single royal chronicle of Shah Jahan's time corroborates the celebrated love story. Furthermore, Oak cites down several documents suggesting the TajMahal 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 city in his memoirs. But he makes no reference to the TajMahal 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 TajMahal 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 tried 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 TajMahal under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.
Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality.....

[desimack]

Damn thats interesting man

[IRFAN06]

really makes u think dont it

[desimack]

Makes u scared if it got out there'd be an outcry

[Guji-Ji]

personally i dont believe the hindu bit but i guess the only way to find out is to open the rooms.

[desimack]

Yeah if it was true it'd probably be a bigger deal considering what its about

[Forgived.]

I been ther, it ws scaryyyy lol

In side u can hear echoes of evrything sumone shouts. The writing on the taj mahal and the whole thing itself is beautiful. I have pics but Im not gna bother