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Taj Mahal Legends: Was it a Rajput Palace? |
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A controversial topic today, it is claimed that the Taj Mahal was originally a Rajput Palace or a Shiva temple. Though there is no substantiating evidence to prove the same, it cannot be denied that there are a lot of facts which point towards the legitimacy of the Taj being a palace at one point of time in the past.
The inverted tops are eleven in number which is characteristic to the Vedic system. The style of architecture is also typically Rajputana.
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"Chattris" are eleven in number characteristic of the Vedic system |
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The verandah is typically Rajput architecture |
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Another interesting fact was revealed by American Professor Marvin Mills in 1974 when he took a piece of the wood for carbon dating to find out the age of a door in the palace. It was found that the door was much before the Shah Jahan era.
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The door at the Taj for which carbon dating was done |
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It is said that the palace originally belonged to Raja Man Singh. De Laet, a Dutch official who was visiting India mentions in his chronicles that the palace was located at a distance of approximately one mile from the Agra fort, and was a spectacular building of Pre-Shah Jahan's time. Shahjahan's court chronicle, the Badshahnama also records Mumtaz's burial in the same Man Singh's palace.
The actual truth is difficult to establish until an unbiased international agency investigates and carries out research activities utilizing new technology like carbon dating etc. to estimate the period of construction.
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