Lucknow, March 24: Seeking to rake up a controversy, BJP leader Vinay Katiyar has claimed that the Taj Mahal in Agra was actually a Shiva temple built by Raja Jai Singh and named Tejo Mai Mahal.
“The Taj Mahal was, in fact, a Shiva temple and was built by Raja Jai Singh. Its name was Tejo Mai Mahal (shining palace),” Katiyar said here.
“This fact finds mention in the book Badshahnama by Abdul Hamid Lahori, a close associate of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan,” he claimed.
Samajwadi Party leader and UP Parliamentary Affairs Minister Azam Khan’s statement that the Taj Mahal was a graveyard “is only a half truth”, Katiyar said adding, "It is no doubt a graveyard as Shah Jahan brought back the body of his wife Mumtaz Mahal from Burahanpur village, where she had died, and buried it in the temple after removing the Shiva Linga.”
“It (the Taj) actually belongs to us (Hindus) and we will do everything possible to reclaim it,” Katiyar said adding a Shankar Sena (Shiva Army) would soon be formed and ‘Damrus’ (Shiva’s drum) distributed among the people to create awareness on this issue.
His statement came close on the heels of claims of ownership of the Taj by the Shia community and Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board, with the support of UP Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Azam Khan to the 17th century architectural marvel.
Shivangi, are you sure you are not Irem in disguise :D. Anyway, Armughal, the Sanskrit word Linga means ‘Sign’, so a Shiva Linga literally means the sign of Shiva. Shiva or another form of God almighty is believed to be in a form of a unending and beginless block of light and that is what the Shivalinga depicts, it is also sometimes called the Shakti stupa. In grammar the gender of the nouns are also known as ‘Strilinga’ for a female gender and ‘Purlinga’ for a male gender. Also the male organ is known as Linga because it is a sign of a man.
Regarding TajMahal, no one is calling it to break it down, everyone is just interested as to who build it. Here is one interesting link. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A5220
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now that was an interesting piece of information....
i have so far never read any other meaning of the word, but now that u mention it, the meaning u put makes a lot more sense....
no religion cud be that perverted to worship genitals....
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