The delicious aroma from the grilled meats was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their Priest.  The Priest came to visit Santa, and suggested that he become a Catholic.   After several classes and much study, Santa attended Mass  … and as the priest sprinkled holy water over him, he said, “You were born as a Sikh, and raised a Sikh, but now, you are a Catholic.”

Santa’s neighbours were greatly relieved, until Friday night arrived.  The wonderful aroma of tandoori chicken and meat kebabs filled the neighbourhood. The Priest was called immediately by the neighbours and, as he rushed into Santa’s backyard, clutching a rosary and prepared to scold him, he stopped and watched in amazement.

There stood Santa, holding a small bottle of holy water which he
carefully sprinkled over the grilling meats and chanted: “Oye, you were
born as a chicken, and you were born as a lamb, you were raised a chicken, and  you
were raised a lamb  but now yara, you are a potato and tomato”!

Say Singh is King…. Singh is King…

            The Japanese have a great liking for fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish for decades. So, to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring back the fish. The longer it took them to bring back the fish, the staler they grew.

         The fish were not fresh and the Japanese did not like the taste. To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats. They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the difference between fresh and frozen fish. And they did not like the taste of frozen fish. The frozen fish brought a lower price. So, fishing companies installed fish tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin. After a little hashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and dull, but alive.

         Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference. Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish. The fishing industry faced an impending crisis!

         But today, it has got over that crisis and has emerged as one of the most important trades in that country! 

How did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem?

How do they get fresh-tasting fish to Japan ?

To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish are challenged and hence are constantly on the move. And they survive and arrive in a healthy state!They command a higher price and are
most sought-after. The challenge they face keeps them fresh!

Humans are no different. L. Ron Hubbard observed in the early 1950’s: “Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment. ” George Bernard Shaw said: ” Satisfaction is death!”

Moral Of story -

If you are steadily conquering challenges, you are happy. Your challenges keep you energized. You are excited to try new solutions. You have fun. You are alive! Instead of avoiding challenges, jump into them.

Do not postpone a task, simply because it’s challenging. Catch these challenges by their horns and vanquish them. Enjoy the game. If your challenges are too large or too numerous, do not give up. Giving up
makes you tired.

Instead, reorganize. Find more determination, more knowledge, more help. Don’t create success and revel in it in a state of inertia. You
have the resources, skills and abilities to make a difference.

Put a shark in your tank and see how far you can really go!

Readers now we are presenting the story of a software guy who has changed many companies before he was laid off.

Some, rather most of the organizations reject his CV today because he has changed
jobs frequently (10 in 14 years). My friend, the ‘job hopper’ (referred
here as Mr. JH), does not mind it…. well he does not need to mind it at
all. Having worked full-time with 10 employer companies in just 14 years
gives Mr. JH the relaxing edge that most of the ‘company loyal’ employees
are struggling for today. Today, Mr. JH too is laid off like some other
14-15 year experienced guys – the difference being the latter have just
worked in 2-3 organizations in the same number of years. Here are the
excerpts of an interview with Mr. JH:

Q1: Why have you changed 10 jobs in 14 years?
A: To get financially sound and stable before getting laid off the second
time.

Q2: So you knew you would be laid off in the year 2009?
A: Well I was laid off first in the year 2002 due to the first global
economic slowdown. I had not got a full-time job before January 2003 when
the economy started looking up; so I had struggled for almost a year
without job and with compromises.

Q3: Which number of job was that?
A: That was my third job.

Q4: So from Jan 2003 to Jan 2009, in 6 years, you have changed 8 jobs to
make the count as 10 jobs in 14 years?
A: I had no other option. In my first 8 years of professional life, I had
worked only for 2 organizations thinking that jobs are deserved after lot
of hard work and one should stay with an employer company to justify the
saying ‘employer loyalty’. But I was an idiot.

Q5: Why do you say so?
A: My salary in the first 8 years went up only marginally. I could not save
enough and also, I had thought that I had a ‘permanent’ job, so I need not
worry about ‘what will I do if I lose my job’. I could never imagine losing
a job because of economic slowdown and not because of my performance. That
was January 2002.

Q: Can you brief on what happened between January 2003 and 2009.
A: Well, I had learnt my lessons of being ‘company loyal’ and not ‘money
earning and saving loyal’. But then you can save enough only when you earn
enough. So I shifted my loyalty towards money making and saving – I changed
8 jobs in 6 years assuring all my interviewers about my stability.

Q6: So you lied to your interviewers; you had already planned to change the
job for which you were being interviewed on a particular day?
A: Yes, you can change jobs only when the market is up and companies are
hiring. You tell me – can I get a job now because of the slowdown? No.. So
one should change jobs for higher salaries only when the market is up
because that is the only time when companies hire and can afford the
expected salaries.

Q7: What have you gained by doing such things?
A: That’s the question I was waiting for. In Jan 2003, I had a fixed salary
(without variables) of say Rs. X p.a. In January 2009, my salary was 8X. So
assuming my salary was Rs.3 lakh p.a. in Jan 2003, my last drawn salary in
Jan 2009 was Rs.24 lakh p.a. (without variable). I never bothered about
variable as I had no intention to stay for 1 year and go through the
appraisal process to wait for the company to give me a hike.

Q8: So you decided on your own hike?
A: Yes, in 2003, I could see the slowdown coming again in future like it
had happened in 2001-02. Though I was not sure by when the next slowdown
would come, I was pretty sure I wanted a ‘debt-free’ life before being laid
off again. So I planned my hike targets on a yearly basis without waiting
for the year to complete.

Q: So are you debt-free now?
A: Yes, I earned so much by virtue of job changes for money and spent so
little that today I have a loan free 2 BR flat (1200 sq. feet) plus a loan
free big car without bothering about any EMIs. I am laid off too but I do
not complain at all. If I have laid off companies for money, it is OK if a
company lays me off because of lack of money.

Q9: Who is complaining?
A: All those guys who are not getting a job to pay their EMIs off are
complaining. They had made fun of me saying I am a job hopper and do not
have any company loyalty. Now I ask them what they gained by their company
loyalty; they too are laid off like me and pass comments to me – why will
you bother about us, you are already debt-free. They were still in the
bracket of 12-14 lakh p.a. when they were laid off.

Q: What is your advice to professionals?
A: Like Narayan Murthy had said – love your job and not your company
because you never know when your company will stop loving you. In the same
lines, love yourself and your family needs more than the company’s needs.
Companies can keep coming and going; family will always remain the same.
Make money for yourself first and simultaneously make money for the
company, not the other way around.

Q10: What is your biggest pain point with companies?
A: When a company does well, its CEO etc will address the entire company
saying,
” well done guys, it is YOUR company, keep up the hard work, I am with
you.”

 But when the slowdown happens and the company does not do so well, the
same CEO etc will say,
 “It is MY company and to save the company, I have to take tough decisions
including asking people to go.” So think about your financial stability
first;

 when you get laid off, your kids will complain to you and not your boss.

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Dad: Just now I called her. She is on the way to home after taking our
grandson Rahul from his school.

Sekar: Let us wait for her few minutes and we will start this discussion.
                 (By the time Sheela entered in to the house.. Sekar
continue the meeting)

I hope you know the Agenda of the meeting which I had mentioned in the
meeting request. Even though let me read out the agenda once again
1. Status update/Discussion on Last Week Action Items
2. Family Strategy
2. Rahul’s Education
3. Medical Insurance for Mom and Dad

I hope every one have the printout of last week MOM (Minutes of Meeting).
Dear Mom can you please update the status of tasks which you are taking
care of?

Mom: Sekar, I am taking care of kitchen module which involves making
products like Sambar, Rasam, Curd Rice, Vegetable Biriyani.I am not
comfortable in handling the tools for making Non Vegetarian products. You
suggest some training in Hlite. However after making these products, I am
giving to your Dad for Acceptance testing. Once he satisfied with the
quality of taste, we pass it to Dining Hall. One more thing, I would like
to share with you. As you have suggested during my appraisal discussion,
now I have stopped crying while watching mega serials in TV

Sekar: Sounds Good.

Sekar: Now coming to Dad. Dad can you please update us?

Dad: Yes. My dear son. I have completed my tasks by paying the current bill
and phone bill with in time.

Sekar: That’s good

Dad: But I couldn’t pay the premium amount of 9200.00 of the LIC plan which
you had taken for tax reduction purpose.

Sekar: It doesn’t look nice dad. I have sent you the amount already and
given clear instructions.
Can you explain to me what went wrong?

Dad: On Tuesday night suddenly one of our team mate (your mom) fell down on
the floor when she was running to catch Rahul. Then we took her to hospital
and spent that amount for her medical expenses.

Mom: Sekar, I would like to add on what your Dad said, that was true. I got
heavy injury in my legs and I was in hospital for two days. So now we don’t
have money to pay for the premium.

Sekar: Sheela..! Would you aware of this? As a home lead, I expect you to
track these issues and send it to me on daily basis. What are you doing
(With stress on ‘doing’) after coming from college?

Sheela: Will do it Sekar. You know that the college, I am working is very
far from our home. Every day I come back home at 6 pm and sit with Rahul
for assisting him for doing his home work.

Sekar: Ok. Coming to second Agenda point .Due to this financial crisis we
need to change the strategy of running our family. I am looking for your
cooperation in the following cost cutting activities. I want to see the
cost benefit of 40 % in this month budget after implementing this
-  Asking servant maid to leave her job
-  Stop ordering Pizzas for dinner
-  Avoid Tooth paste and use Neem sticks/Banyan Tree Sticks
-  Switch on TV only for watching Sunday Movie and Friday Oliyum
Ozhiyum(Well known program for film songs in Podigai TV)
-  Wise to listen news from our near by portion when they watch news in TV
-  Every Saturday visit our relative’s homes and spend the whole day
including break fast, lunch and Dinner
-  Don’t invite anybody to our home. Sunday our relatives might come to our
house. Just lock the door outside and do your work inside silently.
-  Everybody assemble in adjacent street Perumal temple on Sunday for
breakfast. They provide ‘Pongal’ as ‘prasadam’ which is good in taste
-  Sheela stop going for gym and Yoga class. Use Attural (Made up of Stone
for making Dosa /idly dough), Ammikal (Replacement of Mixie) instead of
grinder and Mixie. Mom please give KT to Sheela about this.
-  Don’t buy excess of things and store it in Fridge. Use big Mud pots for
cool water.
-  Everybody go to bed early around 6:30 pm. Ask Rahul to do his homework
when he comes back from school immediately during the hours sunlight is
available. If not ask him to read under street light.
-  Use as much of cycle for transportation to near by places(It will help
you to reduce fat and Cholesterol content)
-  I know you are eager to watch latest release ‘Vaaranam Aayiram’. Don’t
plan for that. Wail till next year Diwali to watch the same movie in
Kalaignar TV

If you have any clarifications contact Sheela@kitchen

Coming to second Agenda point. Sheela, can you please update me about
Rahul’s Education. In which standard he is studying? Whether he got any
double promotion? He was writing annual exam for third standard when I was
leaving for Amsterdam.

Sheela: Sekar, I am bit worrying about his education. I have tracked his
efforts, schedule in our OHM+ tool. I found 20 % in Effort variance and 35
% in schedule deviation. His learning curve goes down in the control chart
which you can see in the report, I have sent you yesterday.

Sekar: Thanks for your measurements. I will review the report and we will
discuss it on next week’s call. I have a client meeting now. So we will
discuss the third agenda item next week. Mom and Dad.. can you please drop
out from the call. I wanted to talk to Sheela about few personal things and
Dad, don’t forget to circulate the MOM to every one.

Sheela: Hello Sekar..

Sheela: Hello…Hello…

Sheela: Hello…

<Tring…Tring….Tring…Line Got Disconnected>

With a sad face the old man said to his son, ”I’m sorry to say this son
but I have to. The girl you want to marry is your sister, but please don’t
tell your mother.”

The young man again brought 3 more names to his father but ended up
frustrated cause the response was still the same.

So he decides to go to his mother. ”Mom I want to get married but all the
girls that I love, dad said they are my sisters and I mustn’t tell you.”

His mother smiling said to him,

”Don’t worry my son, you can marry any of those girls. You’re not his
son!”

XYZ Office -> A fire alarm rang at 6 PM when almost all shift employees
are in office(approx 5000). As usual entire office was evacuated within
3 mins & every employee gathered outside office. 10 mins
passed…………………………….5 more mins passed.

Security Officer -> Announcement started, “Dear Employees - With melting
heart I am making this announcement that for many of you it will be a
last evacuation drill, as we are laying off almost 80% employee. While
moving in who-so-ever ID card won’t work are layed off & all their
belongings will be  couriered to them tomorrow. We followed this
approach as we don’t want to fill email box size with layoff mail in
thousands & also to avoid any fight inside office”. Hope you have nice
career ahead. Please move in & try your luck.

Wish you all and your family  a Happy and a prosperous new year 2009.

Keep visiting the blog regularly for updates.

Regards,

Pawan(Admin)

These dacoits have looted and raped many countries, but no country can tell
a bloodier tale of Muslim Operations than India! The Muslims started their
rule over India in 712 A.D. with the invasion of Mohammed Qasem.
During their rule they looted and destroyed hundreds of thousands of Hindu
temples and killed Hindu priests. Aurangzeb himself has destroyed around 10,000 Hindu temples during his reign!
Some of the larger temples were converted into mosques or other Islamic
structures. Ram Janmbhoomi(at Ayodhya) and Krishna Temple(at Mathura) are
just two examples. Many others exist!
The most evident of such structures is Taj Mahal–a structure supposedly
devoted to carnal love by the “great” moghul king Shah Jahan to his
favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. Please keep in my mind that this is the same
Shah Jahan who had a harem of 5,000 women and the same Shah Jahan who had a incestuous relationship with his daughter justifying it by saying, ‘a
gardener has every right to taste the fruit he has planted’! Is such a
person even capable of imagining such a wondrous structure as the Taj Mahal
let alone be the architect of it?
The answer is no. It cannot be. And it isn’t as has been proven. The Taj
Mahal is as much a Islamic structure as is mathematics a muslim discovery!
The famous historian Shri P.N. Oak has proven that Taj Mahal is actually
Tejo Mahalaya– a shiv temple-palace. His work was published in 1965 in the
book, Taj Mahal - The True Story. However, we have not heard much about it
because it was banned by the corrupt and power crazed Congress government
of Bharat who did not want to alienate their precious vote bank–the
muslims.
After reading Shri Oak’s work which provides more than adequate evidence to
prove that Taj Mahal is indeed Tejo Mahalaya, one has to wonder if the
government of Bharat has been full of traitors for the past 50 years!
Because to ban such a book which states only the truth is surely a crime
against our great nation of Bharat.
The most valuable evidence of all that Tejo Mahalaya is not an Islamic
building is in the Badshahnama which contains the history of the first
twenty years of Shah Jahan’s reign. The writer Abdul Hamid has stated that
Taj Mahal is a temple-palace taken from Jaipur’s Maharaja Jaisigh and the
building was known as Raja Mansingh’s palace. This by itself is enough
proof to state that Tejo Mahalaya is a Hindu structure captured, plundered
and converted to a mausoleum by Shah Jahan and his henchmen. But I have
taken the liberty to provide you with 109 other proofs and logical points
which tell us that the structure known as the Taj Mahal is actually Tejo
Mahalaya.
There is a similar story behind Every Islamic structure in Bharat. They are
all converted Hindu structures. As  mentioned above, hundreds of thousands
of temples in Bharat have been destroyed by the barbaric muslim invaders
and I shall dedicate several articles to these destroyed temples. However,
the scope of this article is to prove to you beyond the shadow of any doubt
that Taj Mahal is Tejo Mahalaya and should be recognized as such! Not as a
monument to the dead Mumtaz Mahal–an insignificant sex object in the
incestuous Shah Jahan’s harem of 5,000.
Another very important proof that Taj Mahal is a Hindu structure is shown
by figure 1 below. It depicts Aurangzeb’s letter to Shah Jahan in Persian
in which he has unintentionally revealed the true identity of the Taj Mahal
as a Hindu Temple-Palace. Refer to proofs 20 and 66 stated below.
Figure 1.
Aurangzeb’s letter to his father Shah Jahan written in
Persian. (Source: Taj Mahal - The True Story, pg. 275)

Take the time to read the proofs stated below and know to what extent we
have been lied to by our own leaders. These proofs of Shri P.N. Oak have
been taken from the URL:
http://rbhatnagar.ececs.uc.edu:8080/hindu_history/modern/taj_oak.html I
would like to commend the creator of the above mentioned web site for
taking the time to put up the proofs given by Shri P.N. Oak.
For more information you can order the book, Taj Mahal - The True Story
authored by Shri P.N. Oak. The ISBN number of the book is ISBN
0-9611614-4-2. The book is available through A. Ghosh (Publisher), 5720 W.
Little York, #216, Houston, Texas 77091. Visit Sword Of Truth - Online
Magazine for more information
Proofs follow below:
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 Safdarjang 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 TejoMahalay
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 necessity in a cemetery.

11.Visitors may notice that the base slab of the centotaph is the marble
basement in plain white while its superstructure and the other three
centotaphs 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 centotaphs 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
keeping 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 especially during the month of Shravan. During the last few
centuries the residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping 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
Nagnatheshwar 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 Illustrated 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. Documentary Evidence

18.Shahjahan’s own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol
1) that a grand mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome
(Imaarat-a-Alishan wa Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisigh
for Mumtaz’s burial, and the building was known as Raja Mansingh’s palace.

19. The plaque put the archealogy department outside the Tajmahal describes
the edifice as a mausoleum built by Shahjahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal,
over 22 years from 1631 to 1653 That plaque is a specimen of historical
bungling. Firstly, the plaque sites no authority for its claim. Secondly
the lady’s name was Mumtaz-ulZamani and not Mumtazmahal. Thirdly, the
period of 22 years is taken from some mumbo jumbo noting by an unreliable
French visitor Tavernier, to the exclusion of all muslim versions, which is
an absurdity.

20. Prince Aurangzeb’s letter (Refer to Figure 1 above) to his father,
emperor Shahjahan, is recorded in atleast three chronicles titled
Aadaab-e-Alamgiri, Yadgarnama, and the Muruqqa-i-Akbarabadi (edited by Said
Ahmed, Agra, 1931, page 43, footnote 2). In that letter Aurangzeb records
in 1652 A.D itself that the several buildings in the fancied burial place
of Mumtaz were seven storeyed and were so old that they were all leaking,
while the dome had developed a crack on the northern side. Aurangzeb,
therefore, ordered immediate repairs to the buildings at his own expense
while recommending to the emperor that more elaborate repairs be carried
out later. This is the proof that during Shahjahan’s reign itself that the
Taj complex was so old as to need immediate repairs.

21. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur retains in his secret personal KapadDwara
collection two orders from Shahjahan dated Dec 18, 1633 (bearing modern
nos. R.176 and 177) requestioning the Taj building complex. That was so
blatant a usurpation that the then ruler of Jaipur was ashamed to make the
document public.

22. The Rajasthan State archives at Bikaner preserve three other firmans
addressed by Shahjahan to the Jaipur’s ruler Jaisingh ordering the latter
to supply marble (for Mumtaz’s grave and koranic grafts) from his Makranna
quarris, and stone cutters. Jaisingh was apparently so enraged at the
blatant seizure of the Tajmahal that he refused to oblige Shahjahan by
providing marble for grafting koranic engravings and fake centotaphs for
further desecration of the Tajmahal. Jaisingh looked at Shahjahan’s demand
for marble and stone cutters, as an insult added to injury. Therefore, he
refused to send any marble and instead detained the stone cutters in his
protective custody.

23. The three firmans demanding marble were sent to Jaisingh within about
two years of Mumtaz’s death. Had Shahjahan really built the Tajmahal over a
period of 22 years, the marble would have needed only after 15 or 20 years
not immediately after Mumtaz’s death.

24. Moreover, the three mention neither the Tajmahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the
burial. The cost and the quantity of the stone also are not mentioned. This
proves that an insignificant quantity of marble was needed just for some
supercial tinkering and tampering with the Tajmahal. Even otherwise
Shahjahan could never hope to build a fabulous Tajmahal by abject
dependence for marble on a non cooperative Jaisingh. European Visitor’s
Accounts

25. Tavernier, a French jeweller has recorded in his travel memoirs that
Shahjahan purposely buried Mumtaz near the Taz-i-Makan (i.e.,`The Taj
building’) where foriegners used to come as they do even today so that the
world may admire. He also adds that the cost of the scaffolding was more
than that of the entire work. The work that Shahjahan commissioned in the
Tejomahalaya Shiva temple was plundering at the costly fixtures inside it,
uprooting the Shiva idols, planting the centotaphs in their place on two
stories, inscribing the koran along the arches and walling up six of the
seven stories of the Taj. It was this plunder, desecrating and plunderring
of the rooms which took 22 years.

26. Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra recorded in 1632 (within only a
year of Mumtaz’s death) that `the places of note in and around Agra,
included Taj-e-Mahal’s tomb, gardens and bazaars’. He, therefore, confirms
that that the Tajmahal had been a noteworthy building even before
Shahjahan.

27. De Laet, a Dutch official has listed Mansingh’s palace about a mile
from Agra fort, as an outstanding building of pre shahjahan’s time.
Shahjahan’s court chronicle, the Badshahnama records, Mumtaz’s burial in
the same Mansingh’s palace.

28. Bernier, a contemporary French visitor has noted that non muslim’s were
barred entry into the basement (at the time when Shahjahan requisitioned
Mansingh’s palace) which contained a dazzling light. Obviously, he reffered
to the silver doors, gold railing, the gem studded lattice and strings of
pearl hanging over Shiva’s idol. Shahjahan comandeered the building to grab
all the wealth, making Mumtaz’s death a convineant pretext.

29. Johan Albert Mandelslo, who describes life in agra in 1638 (only 7
years after mumtaz’s death) in detail (in his Voyages and Travels to
West-Indies, published by John Starkey and John Basset, London), makes no
mention of the Tajmahal being under constuction though it is commonly
erringly asserted or assumed that the Taj was being built from 1631 to
1653. Sanskrit Inscription

30. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the conclusion that the Taj
originated as a Shiva temple. Wrongly termed as the Bateshwar inscription
(currently preserved on the top floor of 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 Kailash his usual
abode”. That inscription dated 1155 A.D. was removed from the Tajmahal
garden at Shahjahan’s orders. Historicians and Archeaologists have
blundered in terming the insription the Bateshwar inscription when the
record doesn’t say that it was found by Bateshwar. It ought, in fact, to be
called The Tejomahalaya inscription because it was originally installed in
the Taj garden before it was uprooted and cast away at Shahjahan’s command.

A clue to the tampering by Shahjahan is found on pages 216-217, vol. 4, of
Archealogiical Survey of India Reports (published 1874) stating that a
“great square black balistic pillar which, with the base and capital of
another pillar….now in the grounds of Agra, …it is well known, once
stood in the garden of Tajmahal”. Missing Elephants

31. Far from the building of the Taj, Shahjahan disfigured it with black
koranic lettering and heavily robbed it of its Sanskrit inscription,
several idols and two huge stone elephants extending their trunks in a
welcome arch over the gateway where visitors these days buy entry tickets.
An Englishman, Thomas Twinning, records (pg.191 of his book “Travels in
India A Hundred Years ago”) that in November 1794 “I arrived at the high
walls which enclose the Taj-e-Mahal and its circumjacent buildings. I here
got out of the palanquine and…..mounted a short flight of steps leading
to a beautiful portal which formed the centre of this side of the Court Of
Elephants as the great area was called.” Koranic Patches

32. The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14 chapters of the Koran but
nowhere is there even the slightest or the remotest allusion in that
Islamic overwriting to Shahjahan’s authorship of the Taj. Had Shahjahan
been the builder he would have said so in so many words before beginning to
quote Koran.

33. That 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. A close scrutiny of the Koranic
lettering reveals that they are grafts patched up with bits of variegated
stone on an ancient Shiva temple. Carbon 14 Test

34. A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the
carbon 14 test by an American Laboratory and initiated by Professors at
Pratt School of Architecture, New York, has revealed that the door to be
300 years older than Shahjahan,since the doors of the Taj, broken open by
Muslim invaders repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to b replaced
from time to time. The Taj edifice is much more older. It belongs to 1155
A.D, i.e., almost 500 years anterior to Shahjahan. Architectural Evidence

35. Well known Western authorities on architechture like E.B.Havell,
Mrs.Kenoyer and Sir W.W.Hunterhave gone on record to say that the TajMahal
is built in the Hindu temple style. Havell points out the ground plan of
the ancient Hindu Chandi Seva Temple in Java is identical with that of the
Taj.

36. A central dome with cupolas at its four corners is a universal feature
of Hindu temples.

37. The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style.
They are used as lamp towers during night and watch towers during the day.
Such towers serve to demarcate the holy precincts. Hindu wedding altars and
the altar set up for God Satyanarayan worship have pillars raised at the
four corners.

38. The octagonal shape of the Tajmahal has a special Hindu significance
because Hindus alone have special names for the eight directions, and
celestial guards assigned to them. The pinnacle points to the heaven while
the foundation signifies to the nether world. Hindu forts, cities, palaces
and temples genrally have an octagonal layout or some octagonal features so
that together with the pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the ten
directions in which the king or God holds sway, according to Hindu belief.

39. The Tajmahal has a trident pinncle over the dome. A full scale of the
trident pinnacle is inlaid in the red stone courtyard to the east of the
Taj. 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 have been 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. People fondly but mistakenly believed all these centuries that the Taj
pinnacle depicts a Islamic cresent and star was a lighting conductor
installed by the British rulers in India. Contrarily, the pinnacle is a
marvel of Hindu metallurgy since the pinnacle made of non rusting alloy, is
also perhaps a lightning deflector. That the pinnacle of the replica is
drawn in the eastern courtyard is significant because the east is of
special importance to the Hindus, as the direction in which the sun rises.
The pinnacle on the dome has the word `Allah’ on it after capture. The
pinnacle figure on the ground does not have the word Allah. Inconsistencies

40. The two buildings which face the marble Taj from the east and west are
identical in design, size and shape and yet the eastern building is
explained away by Islamic tradition, as a community hall while the western
building is claimed to be a mosque. How could buildings meant for radically
different purposes be identical? This proves that the western building was
put to use as a mosque after seizure of the Taj property by Shahjahan.
Curiously enough the building being explained away as a mosque has no
minaret. They form a pair af reception pavilions of the Tejomahalaya temple
palace.

41. A few yards away from the same flank is the Nakkar Khana alias
DrumHouse which is a intolerable incongruity for Islam. The proximity of
the Drum House indicates that the western annex was not originally a
mosque. Contrarily a drum house is a neccesity in a Hindu temple or palace
because Hindu chores,in the morning and evening, begin to the sweet strains
of music.

42. The embossed patterns on the marble exterior of the centotaph chamber
wall are foilage of the conch shell design and the Hindu letter OM. The
octagonally laid marble lattices inside the centotaph chamber depict pink
lotuses on their top railing. The Lotus, the conch and the OM are the
sacred motifs associated with the Hindu deities and temples.

43. The spot occupied by Mumtaz’s centotaph was formerly occupied by the
Hindu Teja Linga a lithic representation of Lord Shiva. Around it are five
perambulatory passages. Perambulation could be done around the marble
lattice or through the spacious marble chambers surrounding the centotaph
chamber, and in the open over the marble platform. It is also customary for
the Hindus to have apertures along the perambulatory passage, overlooking
the deity. Such apertures exist in the perambulatories in the Tajmahal.

44. The sanctom sanctorum in the Taj has silver doors and gold railings as
Hindu temples have. It also had nets of pearl and gems stuffed in the
marble lattices. It was the lure of this wealth which made Shahjahan
commandeer the Taj from a helpless vassal Jaisingh, the then ruler of
Jaipur.

45. Peter Mundy, a Englishman records (in 1632, within a year of Mumtaz’s
death) having seen a gem studded gold railing around her tomb. Had the Taj
been under construction for 22 years, a costly gold railing would not have
been noticed by Peter mundy within a year of Mumtaz’s death. Such costl
fixtures are installed in a building only after it is ready for use. This
indicates that Mumtaz’s centotaph was grafted in place of the Shivalinga in
the centre of the gold railings. Subsequently the gold railings, silver
doors, nets of pearls, gem fillings etc. were all carried away to
Shahjahan’s treasury. The seizure of the Taj thus constituted an act of
highhanded Moghul robery causing a big row between Shahjahan and Jaisingh.

46. In the marble flooring around Mumtaz’s centotaph may be seen tiny
mosaic patches. Those patches indicate the spots where the support for the
gold railings were embedded in the floor. They indicate a rectangular
fencing.

47. Above Mumtaz’s centotaph hangs a chain by which now hangs a lamp.
Before capture by Shahjahan the chain used to hold a water pitcher from
which water used to drip on the Shivalinga.

48. It is this earlier Hindu tradition in the Tajmahal which gave the
Islamic myth of Shahjahan’s love tear dropping on Mumtaz’s tomb on the full
moon day of the winter eve. Treasury Well

49. Between the so-called mosque and the drum house is a multistoried
octagonal well with a flight of stairs reaching down to the water level.
This is a traditional treasury well in Hindu temple palaces. Treasure
chests used to be kept in the lower apartments while treasury personnel had
their offices in the upper chambers. The circular stairs made it difficult
for intruders to reach down to the treasury or to escape with it undetected
or unpursued. In case the premises had to be surrendered to a besieging
enemy the treasure could be pushed into the well to remain hidden from the
conquerer and remain safe for salvaging if the place was reconquered. Such
an elaborate multistoried well is superflous for a mere mausoleum. Such a
grand, gigantic well is unneccesary for a tomb. Burial Date Unknown

50. Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal as a wonder mausoleum, history
would have recorded a specific date on which she was ceremoniously buried
in the Taj Mahal. No such date is ever mentioned. This important missing
detail decisively exposes the falsity of the Tajmahal legend.

51. Even the year of Mumtaz’s death is unknown. It is variously speculated
to be 1629, 1630, 1631 or 1632. Had she deserved a fabulous burial, as is
claimed, the date of her death had not been a matter of much speculation.
In an harem teeming with 5000 women it was difficult to keep track of dates
of death. Apparently the date of Mumtaz’s death was so insignificant an
event, as not to merit any special notice. Who would then build a Taj for
her burial? Baseless Love Stories

52. Stories of Shahjahan’s exclusive infatuation for Mumtaz’s are
concoctions. They have no basis in history nor has any book ever written on
their fancied love affairs. Those stories have been invented as an
afterthought to make Shahjahan’s authorship of the Taj look plausible. Cost

53. The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in Shahjahan’s court papers
because Shahjahan never built the Tajmahal. That is why wild estimates of
the cost by gullible writers have ranged from 4 million to 91.7 million
rupees. Period Of Construction

54. Likewise the period of construction has been guessed to be anywhere
between 10 years and 22 years. There would have not been any scope for
guesswork had the building construction been on record in the court papers.
Architects

55. The designer of the Tajmahal is also variously mentioned as Essa
Effendy, a Persian or Turk, or Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman, Austin
deBordeaux, or Geronimo Veroneo, an Italian, or Shahjahan himself. Records
Don’t Exist

56. Twenty thousand labourers are supposed to have worked for 22 years
during Shahjahan’s reign in building the Tajmahal. Had this been true,
there should have been available in Shahjahan’s court papers design
drawings, heaps of labour muster rolls, daily expenditure sheets, bills and
receipts of material ordered, and commisioning orders. There is not even a
scrap of paper of this kind.

57. It is, therefore, court flatterers, blundering historians, somnolent
archeologists, fiction writers, senile poets, careless tourists officials
and erring guides who are responsible for hustling the world into believing
in Shahjahan’s mythical authorship of the Taj.

58. Description of the gardens around the Taj of Shahjahan’s time mention
Ketaki, Jai, Jui, Champa, Maulashree, Harshringar and Bel. All these are
plants whose flowers or leaves are used in the worship of Hindu deities.
Bel leaves are exclusively used in Lord Shiva’s worship. A graveyard is
planted only with shady trees because the idea of using fruit and flower
from plants in a cemetary is abhorrent to human conscience. The presence of
Bel and other flower plants in the Taj garden is proof of its having been a
Shiva temple before seizure by Shahjahan.

59. Hindu temples are often built on river banks and sea beaches. The Taj
is one such built on the bank of the Yamuna river an ideal location for a
Shiva temple.

60. Prophet Mohammad has ordained that the burial spot of a muslim should
be inconspicous and must not be marked by even a single tombstone. In
flagrant violation of this, the Tajamhal has one grave in the basement and
another in the first floor chamber both ascribed to Mumtaz. Those two
centotaphs were infact erected by Shahjahan to bury the two tier
Shivalingas that were consecrated in the Taj. It is customary for Hindus to
install two Shivalingas one over the other in two stories as may be seen in
the Mahankaleshwar temple in Ujjain and the Somnath temple raised by
Ahilyabai in Somnath Pattan.

61. The Tajmahal has identical entrance arches on all four sides. This is a
typical Hindu building style known as Chaturmukhi, i.e.,four faced. The
Hindu Dome

62. The Tajmahal has a reverberating dome. Such a dome is an absurdity for
a tomb which must ensure peace and silence. Contrarily reverberating domes
are a neccesity in Hindu temples because they create an ecstatic
dinmultiplying and magnifying the sound of bells, drums and pipes
accompanying the worship of Hindu deities.

63. The Tajmahal dome bears a lotus cap. Original Islamic domes have a bald
top as is exemplified by the Pakistan Embassy in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi,
and the domes in the Pakistan’s newly built capital Islamabad.

64. The Tajmahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an Islamic building
it should have faced the west. Tomb is the Grave, not the Building

65. A widespread misunderstanding has resulted in mistaking the building
for the grave.Invading Islam raised graves in captured buildings in every
country it overran. Therefore, hereafter people must learn not to confound
the building with the grave mounds which are grafts in conquered buildings.
This is true of the Tajmahal too. One may therefore admit (for arguments
sake) that Mumtaz lies buried inside the Taj. But that should not be
construed to mean that the Taj was raised over Mumtaz’s grave.

66. The Taj is a seven storied building. Prince Aurangzeb also mentions
this in his letter to Shahjahan (Refer to the Figure 1 above). The marble
edifice comprises four stories including the lone, tall circular hall
inside the top, and the lone chamber in the basement. In between are two
floors each containing 12 to 15 palatial rooms. Below the marble plinth
reaching down to the river at the rear are two more stories in red stone.
They may be seen from the river bank. The seventh storey must be below the
ground (river) level since every ancient Hindu building had a subterranian
storey.

67. Immediately bellow the marble plinth on the river flank are 22 rooms in
red stone with their ventilators all walled up by Shahjahan. Those rooms,
made uninhibitably by Shahjahan, are kept locked by Archealogy Department
of India. The lay visitor is kept in the dark about them. Those 22 rooms
still bear ancient Hindu paint on their walls and ceilings. On their side
is a nearly 33 feet long corridor. There are two door frames one at either
end ofthe corridor. But those doors are intriguingly sealed with brick and
lime.

68. Apparently those doorways originally sealed by Shahjahan have been
since unsealed and again walled up several times. In 1934 a resident of
Delhi took a peep inside from an opening in the upper part of the doorway.
To his dismay he saw huge hall inside. It contained many statues huddled
around a central beheaded image of Lord Shiva. It could be that, in there,
are Sanskrit inscriptions too. All the seven stories of the Tajmahal need
to be unsealed and scoured to ascertain what evidence they may be hiding in
the form of Hindu images, Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures, coins and
utensils.

69. Apart from Hindu images hidden in the sealed stories it is also learnt
that Hindu images are also stored in the massive walls of the Taj. Between
1959 and 1962 when Mr. S.R. Rao was the Archealogical Superintendent in
Agra, he happened to notice a deep and wide crack in the wall of the
central octagonal chamber of the Taj. When a part of the wall was
dismantled to study the crack out popped two or three marble images. The
matter was hushed up and the images were reburied where they had been
embedded at Shahjahan’s behest. Confirmation of this has been obtained from
several sources. It was only when I began my investigation into the
antecedents of the Taj I came across the above information which had
remained a forgotten secret. What better proof is needed of the Temple
origin of the Tajmahal? Its walls and sealed chambers still hide in Hindu
idols that were consecrated in it before Shahjahan’s seizure of the Taj.
Pre-Shahjahan References to the Taj

70. Apparently the Taj as a central palace seems to have an chequered
history. The Taj was perhaps desecrated and looted by every Muslim invader
from Mohammad Ghazni onwards but passing into Hindu hands off and on, the
sanctity of the Taj as a Shiva temple continued to be revived after every
muslim onslaught. Shahjahan was the last muslim to desecrate the Tajmahal
alias Tejomahalay.

71. Vincent Smith records in his book titled `Akbar the Great Moghul’ that
`Babur’s turbulent life came to an end in his garden palace in Agra in
1630′. That palace was none other than the Tajmahal.

72. Babur’s daughter Gulbadan Begum in her chronicle titled Humayun Nama
refers to the Taj as the Mystic House.

73. Babur himself refers to the Taj in his memoirs as the palace captured
by Ibrahim Lodi containing a central octagonal chamber and having pillars
on the four sides. All these historical references allude to the Taj 100
years before Shahjahan.

74. The Tajmahal precincts extend to several hundred yards in all
directions. Across the river are ruins of the annexes of the Taj, the
bathing ghats and a jetty for the ferry boat. In the Victoria gardens
outside covered with creepers is the long spur of the ancient outer wall
ending in a octagonal red stone tower. Such extensive grounds all
magnificently done up, are a superfluity for a grave.

75. Had the Taj been specially built to bury Mumtaz, it should not have
been cluttered with other graves. But the Taj premises contain several
graves atleast in its eastern and southern pavilions.

76. In the southern flank, on the other side of the Tajganj gate are buried
in identical pavilions queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri Begum and a
maid Satunnisa Khanum. Such parity burial can be justified only if the
queens had been demoted or the maid promoted. But since Shahjahan had
commandeered (not built) the Taj, he reduced it general to a muslim
cemetary as was the habit of all his Islamic predeccssors, and buried a
queen in a vacant pavillion and a maid in another idenitcal pavilion.

77. Shahjahan was married to several other women before and after Mumtaz.
She, therefore, deserved no special consideration in having a wonder
mausoleum built for her.

78. Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she did not qualify for a
fairyland burial.

79. Mumtaz died in Burhanpur which is about 600 miles from Agra. Her grave
there is intact. Therefore, the centotaphs raised in stories of the Taj in
her name seem to be fakes hiding in Hindu Shiva emblems.

80. Shahjahan seems to have simulated Mumtaz’s burial in Agra to find a
pretext to surround the temple palace with his fierce and fanatic troops
and remove all the costly fixtures in his treasury. This finds confirmation
in the vague noting in the Badshahnama which says that the Mumtaz’s
(exhumed) body was brought to Agra from Burhanpur and buried `next year’.
An official term would not use a nebulous term unless it is to hide some
thing.

81. A pertinent consideration is that a Shahjahan who did not build any
palaces for Mumtaz while she was alive, would not build a fabulous
mausoleum for a corpse which was no longer kicking or clicking.

82. Another factor is that Mumtaz died within two or three years of
Shahjahan becoming an emperor. Could he amass so much superflous wealth in
that short span as to squander it on a wonder mausoleum?

83. While Shahjahan’s special attachment to Mumtaz is nowhere recorded in
history his amorous affairs with many other ladies from maids to mannequins
including his own daughter Jahanara, find special attention in accounts of
Shahjahan’s reign. Would Shahjahan shower his hard earned wealth on
Mumtaz’s corpse?

84. Shahjahan was a stingy, usurious monarch. He came to throne murdering
all his rivals. He was not therefore, the doting spendthrift that he is
made out to be.

85. A Shahjahan disconsolate on Mumtaz’s death is suddenly credited with a
resolve to build the Taj. This is a psychological incongruity. Grief is a
disabling, incapacitating emotion.

86. A infatuated Shahjahan is supposed to have raised the Taj over the dead
Mumtaz, but carnal, physical sexual love is again a incapacitating emotion.
A womaniser is ipso facto incapable of any constructive activity. When
carnal love becomes uncontrollable the person either murders somebody or
commits suicide. He cannot raise a Tajmahal. A building like the Taj
invariably originates in an ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to
one’s mother and mother country or power and glory.

87. Early in the year 1973, chance digging in the garden in front of the
Taj revealed another set of fountains about six feet below the present
fountains. This proved two things. Firstly, the subterranean fountains were
there before Shahjahan laid the surface fountains. And secondly that those
fountains are aligned to the Taj that edifice too is of pre Shahjahan
origin. Apparently the garden and its fountains had sunk from annual
monsoon flooding and lack of maintenance for centuries during the Islamic
rule.

88. 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.

89. 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.

90. 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.

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

92. 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.

93. 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.

94. 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.

95. 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.

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

97. 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.

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

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

100. 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.

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

102. 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.

103. 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.

104. 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.

105. 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.

106. 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 Shiva. Forged Documents

107. 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.

108. 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 indepth study of the above and many other
revolutionary rebuttals may read Shri P.N. Oak’s other research books.

Please Apologies if this article has hurt any individual’s sentiments…..