Taj Mahal Photo #1

[Below is] An aerial view of the Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya, ancient Hindu
temple complex in Agra. For the last 300 years the world has been fooled to
believe that this stupendous edifice was built by the 5th generation Mogul
emperor Shahjahan to commemorate one of his dead wives--Mumtaz. The two
flanking buildings although identical, only the one in the rear is known as a
mosque.

The Taj Mahal has seven stories. Five of them lie sealed and barred concealing
rich evidence. The marble building in the centre is flanked by two symmetrical
ones. The one in the foreground is the eastern one. The one in the background is
being represented as a mosque because it is to the west. They should not have
been identical if only one was to be a mosque. In the courtyard at the foot of the
eastern building is inlaid a full scale replica of the trident pinnacle [found at the
top of the dome]. The tiny tower at the left near the western building, encloses a
huge octagonal multi-storied well.
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This is the massive octagonal well with palatial apartments along its seven
stories. A royal staircase descends right down to the water level indicated by the
tiny white patch showing the sun's reflection.

This was the traditional treasury well of the Hindu temple palace. Treasure chests
used to be stacked in the lower stories. Accountants, cashiers and treasurers sat
in the upper stories. Cheques called handies used to be issued from here. On
being besieged, if the building had to be surrendered to the enemy, the treasure
used to be pushed into the water for salvage later after recapture. For real
research, water should be pumped out of this well to reveal the evidence that lies
at the bottom. This well is inside a tower near the so-called mosque to the west
of the marble Taj. Had the Taj been a mausoleum this octagonal multistoried well
would have been superfluous.

Taj Mahal Photo # 3

A frontal view of the Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya in Agra. It is octagonal
because the Hindus believe in 10 directions. The pinnacle pointing to the heaven
and the foundation to the nether world, plus the eight surface directions make the
10 directions. Divinity and royalty are believed to hold sway in all those 10
directions. Hence in Hindu tradition, buildings connected with royalty and divinity
must have some octagonal features or the buildings themselves should be
octagonal. The two flanking cupolas (two others to the rear are not seen in this
photo) are also identical.

The towers at the four plinth corners served as watch towers during the day, and
to hold lights at night. Hindu wedding altars and Satyanarayan worship altars
invariably have such towers at corners. [Many other Hindu temples, such as
those at Khajurao, also can be found to have four towers or temples, one at each
corner of the temple foundation.]

The lotus flower cap on the head of the dome is a Hindu feature. Muslim domes
are bald. This marble edifice has four stories. Inside the dome is an 83 ft. high
hall. The Taj has a double dome. The dome one sees from inside ends like an
inverted pan on the terrace. The dome seen from outside is a cover on the inner
dome. Therefore, in between them is an 83 ft. hall. This may be considered as
one storey. Underneath may be seen the first storey arches and the ground floor
rooms. In the basement, visitors are shown one room. All these constitute the
four storeys in the marble edifice. Below the marble structure are two stories in
red stone reaching down to the river level. The 7th storey must be below the river
level because every ancient Hindu historic building did have a basement. Thus,
the Taj is a seven-storied structure.
Taj Mahal Photo # 4
The dome of the Taj Mahal bearing a trident pinnacle made of a non-rusting
eight-metal Hindu alloy. The pinnacle served as a lightning deflector too.

This pinnacle has been blindly assumed by many to be an Islamic crescent and
star, or a lightning conductor installed by the British. This is a measure of the
careless manner in which Indian history has been studied till now. Visually
identifiable things like this pinnacle too have been misinterpreted with impunity.
The flower top of the dome, below the pinnacle, is an unmistakable Hindu sign. A
full scale figure of this pinnacle is inlaid in the eastern courtyard.
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A close up of the upper portion of the pinnacle of the Taj Mahal, photographed
from the parapet beneath the dome. The Hindu horizontal crescent and the
coconut top together look like a trident from the garden level. Islamic crescents
are always oblique. Moreover they are almost always complete circles leaving a
little opening for a star. This Hindu pinnacle had all these centuries been
misinterpreted as an Islamic crescent and star or a lightning conductor installed
by the British. The word "Allah" etched here by Shahjahan is absent in the
courtyard replica. The coconut, the bent mango leaves under it and the
supporting Kalash (water pot) are exclusive Hindu motifs.
Taj Mahal Photo # 6
The full scale figure of the pinnacle on the dome has been inlaid on the red stone
courtyard of the Taj Mahal. One may see it to the east at the foot of the riverside
arch of the flanking building wrongly dubbed as Jamiat Khana (community hall)
by Muslim usurpers. Such floor sketches in courtyards are a common Hindu trait.
In Fatehpur Sikri it is the backgammon board which is sketched on a central
courtyard. The coconut top and the bent mango leaves underneath, resting on a
kalash (i.e. a water pot) is a sacred Hindu motif. Hindu shrines in the Himalayan
foothills have identical pinnacles [especially noticed at Kedarnath, a prominent
Shiva temple]. The eastern location of the sketch is also typically Hindu. The
length measures almost 32 ft.
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Taj Mahal Photo # 7

The apex of the lofty entrance arch on all four sides of the Taj Mahal bears this
red lotus and white trident--indicating that the building originated as a Hindu
temple. The Koranic lettering forming the middle strip was grafted after
Shahjahan seized the building from Jaipur state's Hindu ruler.
Taj Mahal Photo # 8
This is a riverside view of the Taj Mahal. The four storied marble structure above
has under it these two stories reaching down to the river level. The 22 rooms
shown in other photos are behind that line of arches seen in the middle. Each
arch is flanked by Hindu lotus discs in white marble. Just above the ground level
is the plinth. In the left corner of the plinth is a doorway indicating inside the plinth
are many rooms sealed by Shahjahan. One could step out to the river bank from
the door at the left. The 7th storey is surmised to be under the plinth below the
ground because every ancient Hindu mansion had a basement. Excavation to
reach the basement chamber should start under this door.
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Taj Mahal Photo # 9

Most people content to see Mumtaz's grave inside the Taj fail to go to the rear
riverside. This is the riverside view. From here one may notice that the four-
storied marble structure on top has below it two more stories in red stone. Note
the window aperture in the arch at the left. That indicates that there are rooms
inside. Inside the row of arches in the upper part of the wall are 22 rooms. In
addition to the four stories in marble, this one shows red stone arches in the 5 th
storey. The 6th storey lies in the plinth in the lower portion of the photo. In another
photo a doorway would be seen in the left corner of the plinth, indicating the
presence of apartments inside, from where one could emerge on the river for a
bath.
Taj Mahal Photo # 10
These corridors at the approach of the Taj Mahal are typically Hindu. They may
be seen in any ancient Hindu capital. Note the two octagonal tower cupolas at
the right and left top. Only Hindus have special names for the eight directions
and celestial guards assigned to each. Any octagonal feature in historic buildings
should convince the visitor of their Hindu origin. Guards, palanquin bearers and
other attendants resided in hundreds of rooms along numerous such corridors
when the Taj Mahal was a Hindu temple palace. Thus the Taj was more
magnificent and majestic before it was reduced to a sombre Islamic cemetery.
Taj Mahal Photo # 11
This Naqqar Khana alias Music House in the Taj Mahal garden is an incongruity if
the Taj Mahal were an Islamic tomb. Close by on the right is the building which
Muslims claim to be a mosque. The proximity of a mosque to the Music House is
incongruous with Muslim tradition. In India, Muslims have a tradition of pelting
stones on Hindu music processions passing over a mosque. Moreover a
mausoleum needs silence. A dead person's repose is never to be disturbed. Who
would then provide a band house for a dead Mumtaz? Contrarily Hindu temples
and palaces have a music house because morning and evening Hindu chores
begin to the sweet strains of sacred music.
Taj Mahal Photo # 12
Such are the rooms on the 1st floor of the marble structure of the Taj Mahal. The
two staircases leading to this upper floor are kept locked and barred since
Shahjahan's time. The floor and the marble walls of such upper floor rooms can
be seen in the picture to have been stripped of its marble panels. Shahjahan
used that uprooted marble from the upper floor for constructing graves and
engraving the Koran because he did not know wherefrom to procure marble
matching the splendour of the rest of the Taj Mahal. He was also so stingy as not
to want to spend much even on converting a robbed Hindu temple into an Islamic
mausoleum.
Taj Mahal Photo # 13
Such are the magnificent marble-paved, shining, cool, white bright rooms of the
Taj Mahal temple palace's marble ground floor. Even the lower third portion of the
walls is covered with magnificent marble mosaic. The doorway at the left looks
suspiciously closed with a stone slab. One can perambulate through these rooms
around the central octagonal sanctorum, now occupied by Mumtaz's fake grave.
The aperture, seen through of the central door, enabled perambulating devotees
to keep their eyes fixed on the Shiva Linga in the central chamber. Hindu Shiva
Lingas are consecrated in two chambers, one above the other. Therefore,
Shahjahan had to raise two graves in the name of Mumtaz--one in the marble
basement and the other on the ground floor to desecrate and hide both the Shiva
emblems from public view. [The famous Shiva temple in Ujjain also has an
underground chamber for one of its Shiva-lingams.]
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This is the Dhatura flower essential for Hindu Shiva worship. The flower is
depicted in the shape of the sacred, esoteric Hindu incantation 'OM.' Embossed
designs of this blooming 'OM' are drawn over the exterior of the octagonal central
sanctorum of Shiva where now a fake grave in Mumtaz's has been planted.
While perambulating around the central chamber one may see such 'OM'
designs.
Taj Mahal Photo # 15
This staircase and another symmetrical one at the other end lead down to the
storey beneath the marble platform. Visitors may go to the back of the marble
plinth at the eastern or western end and descend down the staircase because it
is open to the sky. But at the foot the archaeology department has set up an iron
door which it keeps locked. Yet one may peep inside from the iron gate in the
upper part of the door. Shahjahan had sealed even these two staircases. It was
the British who opened them. But from Shahjahan's time the stories below and
above the marble ground floor have been barred to visitors. We are still following
Mogul dictates though long free from Mogul rule.
Taj Mahal Photo # 16
On the inner flank of the 22 locked rooms (in the secret storey in red stone below
the marble platform) is this corridor about 12 ft. broad and 300 ft. long. Note the
scallop design at the base of the plinth supporting the arches. This is the Hindu
decoration which enables one to identify even a bare plinth.
Taj Mahal Photo # 17
One of the 22 rooms in the secret storey underneath the marble plinth of the Taj
Mahal. Many such features of the Taj remain unknown to the public so long as
they see it only as a tomb. If the public knew how much it is missing in the Taj
Mahal it will insist that the government unseal its many stories. Two doorways at
either end of this corridor in the right side wall leading to inner apartments have
been sealed by Shahjahan. If those doorways are opened, important evidence
concealed inside by Shahjahan may come to light.
Taj Mahal Photo # 18
A corner of one of the 22 rooms in the secret storey immediately below the
marble platform of the Taj Mahal. Note the strips of Hindu paint on the wall. The
ventilator at the left, meant for air and light from the riverside, has been crudely
walled up by Shahjahan. He did not bother even to plaster them. Had Shahjahan
built the Taj as a mausoleum what was the purpose of the 22 rooms? And why
are they kept locked and hidden from the public?
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Taj Mahal Photo # 19

One of the 22 locked rooms in the secret storey beneath the marble platform of
the Taj Mahal. Strips of ancient Hindu paint are seen on the wall flanking the
doorway. The niches above had paintings of Hindu idols, obviously rubbed off by
Muslim desecraters. The rooms may be seen door within door in a row. If the
public knew that the Taj Mahal is a structure hiding hundreds of rooms, they
would insist on seeing the whole of it. At present they only peep into the grave
chamber and walk away.
Taj Mahal Photo # 20
This esoteric Hindu design is painted on the ceiling of some of the 22 locked
rooms in the secret storey below the marble platform of the Taj Mahal in Agra.
Had Shahjahan built the Taj Mahal he would not have kept such elaborately
painted rooms sealed and barred to the public. Even now one can enter these
rooms only if one can influence the archaeology department to remove the locks.
Taj Mahal Photo # 21
A huge ventilator of one of the 22 rooms in a secret storey of the Taj, is seen here
crudely sealed with unplastered bricks by Shahjahan. History has been so
perverted and inverted that alien Muslims like Shahjahan who spoiled, damaged,
desecrated and destroyed historic Hindu buildings, are being falsely paraded as
great builders.
Taj Mahal Photo # 22
One of the 22 riverside rooms in a secret storey of the Taj Mahal, unknown to the
public. Shahjahan, far from building the shining marble Taj, wantonly disfigured it.
Here he has crudely walled up a doorway. Such imperial Mogul vandalism lies
hidden from the public. This room is in the red stone storey immediately below
the marble platform. Indian history has been turned topsy turvy in lauding
destroyers as great builders.
Taj Mahal Photo # 23
Many such doorways of chambers in secret stories underneath the Taj Mahal
have been sealed with brick and lime. Concealed inside could be valuable
evidence such as Sanskrit inscriptions, Hindu idols, the original Hindu model of
the Taj, the desecrated Shiva Linga, Hindu scriptures and temple equipment.
Besides such sealed chambers there are many which are kept locked by the
Government. The Public must raise its voice to have these opened or it should
institute legal proceedings. Shree P. N. Sharma of Green Park, New Delhi who
peeped through an aperture in these chambers in 1934 A.D. saw a pillared hall
with images carved on the pillars.
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Taj Mahal Photo # 24

Burharpur is a very ancient historic city on the Central Railway between
Khandwa and Bhusawal junctions. Burhanpur and the nearby Asirgarh (fort) used
to provide hospitality to Hindu royals proceeding north or south on pilgrimage,
weddings or military expeditions. Barhanpur has many magnificent mansions
which are currently being described as mosques and tombs of alien Islamic
invaders. This building is one such ancient Hindu royal palace captured by the
Moghuls. Mumtaz died here during her 14th delivery around 1630 A.D. while she
and Shahjahan were camping here. She is said to be buried in a Hindu pavilion
in front of this palace.
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Taj Mahal Photo # 25

Mumtaz is supposed to be buried in this garden pavilion of the ancient Hindu
palace (Ahu Mahal) 600 miles from Agra, in Burhanpur. Another version says that
Mumtaz's corpse was kept here exposed to sun, rain, and wild beasts for six
months. The date of her death, the date of her removal from Burhanpur to Agra,
and the date of her assumed burial in the Taj Mahal are all unknown because the
entire Taj Mahal-Mumtaz legend is a concoction from the beginning to end.
[Mumtaz was only one of several hundred wives and women that Shahjahan kept
in his harem.]

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