Thread by @punarUtthana108

TEJOMAHALAYA: SHIVA TEMPLE

By PN Oak

Taj Mahal is not Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which 5th generation Mogul emperor Shahjahan commandeered from then Maharaja of Jaipur

in the matter of Indian history the world has been duped

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When told that you are visiting a temple-palace complex you won’t fail to notice its annexes, ruined defensive walls, hillocks, moats, cascades, fountains, majestic garden, hundreds of rooms, arcaded verandahs, terraces, stables, the trident (trishul) pinnacle on the dome

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There are more than 100 evident points

Letter of Aurangzeb ordering repairs on old Taj Mahal in the year just before it is said to have been completed🤷

Term Taj Mahal itself never occurs in any Mogul court paper or chronicle even in Aurangzeb’s time

@Dharma_Yoddhaa

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lady’s name (who was buried) was never Mumtaz Mahal but Arjumand Banu Begum as mentioned in Shahjahan’s official court chronicle, the Badshahnama

Both its components namely ‘Taj' and 'Mahal’ are of Sanskritic origin

In no Muslim country any edifice described as Mahal

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Ancient Agra residence since ages continued to worship at five Shiva shrines before taking last meal
During last few centuries residents of Agra had content with worshipping at only four prominent Shiva temples viz. Balkeshwar, Prithvinath Manakameshwar and Rajarajesh-war

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They had lost track of the fifth Shiva deity which their forefathers worshipped

Apparently the fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev i. e. the Lord Great God of Agra consecrated in the Tejo-Mahalaya alias Taj Mahal

people who dominate the Agra region are Jats

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@TIinExile

Their name for Shiva is Tejaji

Jat special issue of Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28, 1971) mentions that Jats have Teja Mandirs i. e. Teja temples

From this it is apparent that the Taj Mahal is Tejo Mahalaya, the Great Abode of Tej’

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@yaajushi @Vyasonmukh

A Sanskrit inscription too supports the above conclusion. Known as the Bateshwar inscription (Lucknow museum)

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 Kailas—his usual abode”

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This inscription was found within a radius of about 36 miles from the Taj Mahal. The inscription is dated 1155 A.D. From this it is clear that the Taj Mahal was built at least 500 years before Shahjahan.

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Shahjahan’s own court Badshahnama admits (on page 403, Vol. I) that grand mansion of unique splendour, capped with a dome(imaarat-e-alishan wa gumbaze) was taken from Jaipur Maharaja Jaisingh for Mumtaz’s burial

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@SharanMishra @We_The_Saffron @TIinExile @Shrimaan @Aabhas24

Aurangzeb’s letter is recorded in at least two chronicles titled ‘Aadaab-e-Alamgiri’ and ‘Yaad-gaarnama’

ordered immediate repairs to the building

This is proof that during Shahjahan’s reign itself Taj complex was so old as to need immediate repairs

(Badshahnama Pic 3)

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Well known western authorities on architecture like E. B. Havell & Sir W. W. Hunter have gone on record to say that Taj Mahal is built in Hindu temple style

Havell points out that the ground plan of ancient Hindu Chandi Seva temple in Java is identical with that of Taj

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