[Y-Indology] Tejomahaalaya/Tajmahaal

[Guest guest]

>But it is nothing more that 20,000 peoples blood and sweat and all the vast

money of the mughals.

 

Indeed that is the QUESTION not the answer. Who built it how and when?

 

>As a work of art it is mediocre and average.

 

That is a matter of opinion. Some one could say the same thing about Khazurao.

All monuments require human labor and it may not be necessarily slave labor.

That is such a typical Marxist utopian view. The Umed Bhavan,in Rajasthan,

which some say is more beautiful than the Taj(o) Mahal(aya), was infact built to

provide

employment to people.

 

Therefore let the sealed rooms be opened and let scholars evaluate the evidence

instead of relying on dubious traditions.

[Guest guest]

INDOLOGY, smykelkar@a... wrote:

> "But why does the Taj

> resemble so closely then buildings constructed by the ancestors of

> the Moghuls in Samarkand centuries earlier?"

>

> Timur the lame after his assault on Delhi took many artisans back

to his homeland.

 

But that would support the idea that the Taj was built by the

Moghuls.

 

Regards,

Paul Kekai Manansala

[Guest guest]

>But that would support the idea that the Taj was built by the

Moghuls.

 

>Regards,

Paul Kekai Manansala

 

If the structure is at least 300-400 years older as suggeted by the carbon

datings, Timur would have wanted to build simillar ones in his own country also.

Baburnama is very clear about the fact that its author never liked India much,

and always longed for his homeland in Afghanistan.

 

There are many more marble structures in Rajasthan that are less known and

smaller, but could rival the Taj(o)in beauty. The temple at JaswantThudda (?

writing from memory) is a good example.