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   Part 2 of 2   
      
   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   
   costly 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 unnecessary 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 Shiv'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 Shiv 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 Shiv 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.   
      
      
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