A MUSLIM MAUSOLEUM OR A VEDIC TEMPLE

Was chatting with a friend of mine yesterday night. He sent me a link on the Taj Mahal and asked me to go through it. Knowing him really well, I clicked on it and it indeed did keep my attention for quite a long period of time!!

I would have also questioned the credibility of the articles but these two pictures particularly caught my attention!!


Note the Hindu horizontal crescent and the coconut top together look like a trident from the garden level. Islamic crescents are always oblique. Moreover they are almost always complete circles leaving a little opening for a star. The coconut, the bent mango leaves under it and the supporting Kalash (water pot) are exclusive Hindu motifs.


This is the Dhatura flower essential for Hindu Shiva worship. The flower is depicted in the shape of the sacred, esoteric Hindu incantation 'OM.' Embossed designs of this blooming 'OM' are drawn over the exterior of the octagonal central sanctorum of Shiva where now a fake grave in Mumtaz's has been planted. While perambulating around the central chamber one may see such 'OM' designs.