Taj Mahal

[desimack]

I find it beyond hard to believe nobody has mentioned this relic to love and thing of beauty!

The story of the Taj Mahal goes so.

There was a king whoose wife died giving birth to one of his many children and he made the Taj Mahal in her honour.

He had plans to build one across the water for himself in black but as soon as he got ill his sons fought for his throne and the victorious son had his dad locked away before the second Taj Mahal could be started!

Anyway admire the beauty!

http://saanga_blogger.home.comcast.net/photospot/images/taj_mahal_01.jpg

[Zero]

Can anyone spot the white man in that picture? Ive seen one already! :p

[desimack]

LOL lots of white people go there you can't deny the beauty of the Taj Mahal man

[HussainU]

beautiful place
been loadsa times :D

[Guji-Ji]

amazing, never been but im deffo gonna go someday.

[desimack]

Uhmm I think I might pop down there this summer

[Guji-Ji]

Aparrently the Shah Jahan chopped the hands off of the people that made it so no one could make another one.

[desimack]

man thats interesting.

It's truly a sign of beauty man it's just amazing!

[IRFAN06]

just summat i came across.....

"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 at least 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 celebrated love story. Furthermore, Oak cites down 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.....

[desimack]

Damn thats interesting man

[IRFAN06]

really makes u think dont it

[desimack]

Makes u scared if it got out there'd be an outcry

[Guji-Ji]

personally i dont believe the hindu bit but i guess the only way to find out is to open the rooms.

[desimack]

Yeah if it was true it'd probably be a bigger deal considering what its about

[Forgived.]

I been ther, it ws scaryyyy lol

In side u can hear echoes of evrything sumone shouts. The writing on the taj mahal and the whole thing itself is beautiful. I have pics but Im not gna bother :p

[desimack]

lol its obviously gonna have echos its made of marble and has a dome :p

[Forgived.]

^^^Piss off

And the two tombs inside they are surrounded by a marble gate thing and the tombs aint the real tombs, and damn they are high!! The real tombs are under the Taj Mahal. They say its haunted.

And, its massive, pics dont do justice to its size.

[desimack]

its da bomb thing :D

[*AmBiGuOuS*]

That's wot i call true love...straight up...

[Forgived.]

I think chopping the builders hands off is sadistic more than a true lover :p

[*AmBiGuOuS*]

I think chopping the builders hands off is sadistic more than a true lover :p

I waz referrin more 2 the fact that he built it 4 his late wife...coz he wanted her memory 2 liv on...4 the world 2 kno how he felt 4 her regardless of whether she still around in person or not...:)

But yeh...8&

[desimack]

LOL its a mural to love now shh

[*AmBiGuOuS*]

LOL its a mural to love now shh

U shhhh...ahem...,:

[desimack]

U shhhh...ahem...,:

make me :p

[*AmBiGuOuS*]

make me :p

*pulls desimack real close...slides her hand out her pocket n up 2wards his face...slowly moves in closer...n shoves a sock in his mouth*...;)

There...now chup...:)

[desimack]

lol damn i had other plans :p

[a true desi]

did u guys know that the guy who mad the Taj Mahal also wanted to make another one made of black marble on the opposite side of the river.

[desimack]

yeah for himself already been mentioned wake up man lol

[Cheeky_Princess]

its sooo amazing and romantic i guess...

how far is it from the pakistan border? lahore side...
i wanna go if its not 2 far.....

[MrNiceGuy]

i used to think it was a mosque be4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[desimack]

It's a few hundred miles.

It's ain't a mosque but it has quranic verses written inside it.

[Cheeky_Princess]

a few hundred miles :(

damn....

[desimack]

There not supposed to be any built roads around the area too I just googled it.

[Forgived.]

a few hundred miles :(

damn....

U dont hve to ther from Pakistan. Just dont go Pakistan, instead just go India. Im sure u wont be missing much by not going Pak.

[desimack]

LOL you know what Paki's are like they can't appreciate any other country!

[Cheeky_Princess]

lol im goin after my exams... alone!!!!
maybe sumtym in the future lol

[desimack]

Why the hell are you going? Especially alone!

[Cheeky_Princess]

cuz its fun back home!!! i get 2 do crap n not get in shit lol

[desimack]

It's more fun here!

[Cheeky_Princess]

not when ur stuck at home!!!

[desimack]

Well go out what they got in Pakistan that can beat Alton Towers?

[Cheeky_Princess]

like ill be allowed 2...
ur forgettin im 16 n asian under my parents control 24/7...
so yhe
nowanda i spend most my lyf online
sad life :(

[desimack]

Online is better than Pakistan theres a lot more to do online

[Cheeky_Princess]

hmmmm dats why im tryna take my laptop der... gnna miss my online life 2 much... double der fun :D...
thou connection gnna be slow :(

[desimack]

LOL the connection is going to be a joke but you won't need your laptop you'll need to go to an internet cafe to get internet neway and they'll have computers there.

[Cheeky_Princess]

leh u mad... net cafe!!!


i went der once... whn we was at murre..... dad n bro didnt wanna stick around so der left me alone... der freshies der were so shocked dat a girl could use a computer!!!

[desimack]

LOL girls don't usually go into internet cafes you shouldn't be alone there

[Cheeky_Princess]

i no...
dad didnt wanna leave me alone... but my lil bruva didnt wanna hang abt...
i swear in the next qubical fing der freshie was watchin dogey stuff!
i was glad dey went i cud talk 2 my mates wivout dem readin der screen!

[desimack]

LOL is that why you love Pakistan so much :D

[Cheeky_Princess]

nope...
der reason why i love pakistan so much.... is.....
cuz of my family!!!

[desimack]

Well if it's cos of ur family they could be the same family living on Mars!

[Cheeky_Princess]

i guess if i had dem all here it wud be wicked.....
n my familys not aliens :(

[desimack]

If you had cousins on Mars you'd probably be famous!

[Cheeky_Princess]

mack dat will make me an alien 2..... :D
but den no1 will marry an alien :(

ill stay human fanks! :D

[desimack]

nobody will marry you either way :p

[Cheeky_Princess]

leh ur so rude :(

[desimack]

lol not at 16!

Unless you go Pakistan where ppl get married at 2

[Cheeky_Princess]

lol hell no im not gettin married at 16... dats scary add at least 5 years like lol....
lol yeh sumfing are messed

[desimack]

damn that will still be 21!

[Cheeky_Princess]

dats ok....
ill ave a uni degree by den... :D

[desimack]

u gonna marry a freshy then I guess since you love Pakistan

[Cheeky_Princess]

i am not marryin a freshy!!!

i love the country not the people.... :P

[desimack]

u said u love ur family there they probably got a son waiting for you since they think u love them so much

[Cheeky_Princess]

lol nah...
der alraedy hooked up with people der...
so im free :D

[desimack]

lol u sure?

They love British passports over there I bet theyr going to try something!

[Cheeky_Princess]

lol....
my familys not dat screwed.....
ill just run away or get my bodyguard 2 step in lol

[desimack]

LOL you think theyr not like that but so do a lot of other people that it happens to!

[Cheeky_Princess]

lol ill run away den... :P

[desimack]

LOL to where the police wont help you

[Cheeky_Princess]

erm i dunno.... ill run across the border or summin...
:P

[desimack]

LOL then you'll end up in another fucked up place :p

[Cheeky_Princess]

lol....... u can come n rescue me den!!! lol

[desimack]

man thats a long way off I got better things to do!

[Cheeky_Princess]

fine let me die.......
u dont care abt me

:(

[kalpx]

ah yes, da beautyfull taj mahal :)

[desimack]

Back onto the Taj Mahal :D

[Cheeky_Princess]

yeh back on 2 the taj mahal.....

its amazing.....