Taj Mahal : A Tribute To Beauty

[arti]

Taj Mahal (http://www.indiabook.com/page/11096.html) is located at the city of Agra in the state of Uttar Pradesh.Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful masterpieces of architecture in the world.It is one of the eight wonders of the world and a monument of Love its a celebration of woman built in marble.It was built by Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory if his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
Taj Mahal was constructed between 1630-1653 by a workforce of more than twenty thousand.It is a most famous memorial of a man's love for his wife.It is built in an Islamic style.The attraction of viewers is way of design it is built in like :


* The site itself, and its position on the Yamuna River

* The four-sectioned garden with its walkways and water features

* The outlying buildings that frame the main mausoleum

* The main structure, the tomb or mausoleum itself, with its elegant dome

* The exterior decorations of the mausoleum, including bas-relief, inlay, and caligraphy

* The jewel-inlaid interior decorations

[megrisoft]

Different people have different views of the Taj but it would be enough to say that the Taj has a life of its own that leaps out of marble, provided you understand that it is a monument of love. This is a tribute to a beautiful lady 'Mumtaz Mahal'.
When Mumtaz Mahal was still alive, she extracted four promises from the emperor 'Shah Jahan':

[1] He build the Taj.
[2] He should marry again.
[3] He be kind to their children.
[4] He visit the tomb on her death anniversary.

To keep his promise, he built this beautiful monument.

[megrisoft]

But you know, the surface of the onion-domed monument became yellow over the years because of automobile fumes, smoke from small factories, a large oil refinery near Agra and funeral pyres at a nearby cremation ground.
These people don't know that they are harming their own country's treasure.

[sunilkumar]

ha ha :D food is more important to local people, not that monument we have our stomach full so we say about monument ... have you ever realised that the architect hand was cut by people of shah Jahan.. who made Taj Mahal .... You know what son of Shah Jahan did with his father .... Every one has to pay pirce for their deed on this earth before they die...
We like Taj-Mahal we also like to protect it. It is a great monument but what about the people whose food are depend on that oil mill , refinery etc. in Agara
Government has to consider all those things, then only they can take any step ...High court will just give their judgement but ultimatly its duty of government to follow the judgement of court.

[arti]

You are right.Taj Mahal is India's most beautiful and precious monument.My friend is in Canada,you know what she says that we have everything in Canada that you have in India, but we don't have Taj Mahal.
Taj Mahal is one of the eight wonders of the world and we are so lucky that we the Indians are so proud to have it here.

Its not only the duty of the Government but we all should take steps to save the beauty of the Taj.

[sunilkumar]

Recently I come to know something more about TAJ MAHAL....

It is Inside story of Taj Mahal that most of Indian and world don't know .... Up till now i was also not knowing....

So here it goes just read it.....

BE PATIENT WHILE READING FIRST FEW LINES . AFTER THAT YOU CANNOT STOP COMPLETING

Check out the link below AFTER reading this......

Real History of "Taj Mahal"

"The Moghul Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal built the Taj Mahal. 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 Taj Mahal. 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 Taj Mahal: The True Story, Oak says the Taj Mahal 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 Taj Mahal. 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 Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal was illogical in atleast 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."Taj Mahal, 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 love story. Furthermore, Oak cites several documents suggesting the Taj Mahal 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 Taj Mahal 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 Taj Mahal 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 Taj Mahal under U.N. supervision, and let international experts investigate.

Do circulate this to all you know and let them know about this reality

This link ........it adds as a visual proof to what is described above..............and don't forget to circulate it.........

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/was_the_taj_mahal_a_vedic_temple.htm

That it ....

Its me Secular Sunilkumar

[India1989]

They don't have a lot of things in Canada which are found in India. There are beautiful scenic beauties in India and other architectural wonders. India has lots of things which other countries don't posses. Not to forget their smart people which very few countries posses.

[megrisoft]

That is the India. This is the reason of visiting thousands of foriegn tourists every year. I am proud to be an Indian.

[arti]

Right! we are proud to be Indain and have such a beautiful and amazing love monument like TAJ MAHAL in our country.

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