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A history of crimes against India By MV Kamath

2012-01-15T08:38:00.001-08:00

A history of crimes against India By MV Kamath

Crimes Against India: And the Need to Protect its Ancient Vedic Tradition: Stephen Knapp; i. Universe, Inc., New York; Pp 358 (PB), $24.95

To read the history of India is to shed tears. Down the centuries outsiders have invaded the country and the people have paid dearly for it. The reason why, for instance, many Muslim rulers could conquer India was simply because Hindu rulers at home would not unite to fight a common enemy. As Knapp puts it in plain terms, “there was a continuous struggle and warfare between the various Rajput states and these rivalries it was which made it impossible for the Rajput rulers to join hands to oust the Ghazaniavids from the Punjab”. When they could not – or would not – fight, they sought peace by giving their daughters in marriage to the invader. And so they survived.

Our history books are also, even today, hesitant to tell the truth about the conquerors. Knapp records that the Bahmani Sultans of Central India made a rule to kill 100,000 Hindus every year. In 1399, Timur killed 100,000 Hindus in a single day, plus more at times. Knapp quotes KS Lal, the historian, as saying that between 1000 AD and 1525 AD, The Hindu population decreased by as many as 80 million.

Says Knapp: “This probably is the biggest holocaust in the history of the whole world, right there in India”. And he rightly asks: “Yet, not many people have either forgotten this threat to the Indian Hindu population or have never heard or learned about it? This negation of Indian history is itself a crime against its population, when the people should know and learn lessons from the past”.

It is not just Muslim invaders who tried to destroy Hinduism – call it Vedic religion, if necessary – in India. The Portuguese rulers in Goa were no less cruel and barbaric. The inquisition they practised once every two years was even worse than any Muslim imposition of Islam on Hindus. One of the Jesuits was to write: “When I have finished baptising the people, I order them to destroy the huts in which they keep their idols; and I have them break the statues of their idols into tiny pieces, since they are now Christians. I could never come to an end describing to you the great consolation which fills my soul when I see idols being destroyed by the hands of those who had been idolators”.

For all that and all that, Hinduism has survived and it is even getting accepted abroad, though Hinduism does not believe in conversion. A well known US media personality is quoted as saying: “Now we are all Hindus”. In Russia, Knapp claims, one per cent of the population aver that they are Hindus. But, it would seem, the worst enemies of Hinduism are Hindus themselves. They are giving up their own Vedic heritage and culture which Knapp describes as “the last bastion of deep spiritual truth”. As he puts it: “The Vedic culture and philosophy offers deep insight into spiritual knowledge that can be found nowhere else” and “it provides for levels of thought and knowledge of the soul and the Supreme, and the spiritual reality that are hardly matched elsewhere”.

The book is divided into four parts. Part One recalls the war against India’s ancient traditions. Knapp insists that “we have to remember that a true religion paves the war for everyone to become spiritually aware and to establish his or her own relationship with the Supreme and the Vedic system is an ideal means for supplying that”. Indeed, he says, “the spiritual principles in the Vedic system are universal, meaning they can be applied in any time or place in the universe”. Part Two describes the battle waged by Indians to protect their culture and what the Ghaznis, the Ghoris, the Slave Sultans, the Khaljis, the Sayyids and the Lodis did to plunder temples and destroy places of worship and otherwise seek to eliminate Hindu culture and civilisation.

Knapp details the sacking of Chidambaram and Sri Rangam, the plunder of Puri’s Jagannath Temple, Sikandar Lodi’s treatment of Mathura, the destruction of Dwarka, the Govindaji Temple in Vrindavan, the Keshava Temple in Mathura, to name a few. What the Portuguese did in Goa is not forgotten, nor what Christian missionaries elsewhere did. One whole chapter is given to the impact of British rule in India.

Part Three deals with the flase image sought to be imposed on Indians by the vicious propagation of the Aryan Invasion theory and the damage it has wrought. Casteism is seen as a scourge of Hinduism or a perversion of a legitimate Vedic System that needs to be fought or at least seen in its proper perspective. Knapp also discusses such issues as the dowry system, bonded labour, malnutrition of poor children and saving the girl child. He spares none. As for the concept of ‘Aryan’ and ‘Dravidian’, Knapp insists that it was used by the British to establish a lower class of Indians who were oppressed by a higher class, and to enable the rulers to “divide the Indian people into quarreling factions”. According to him, the idea of ‘Aryan’ and ‘Dravistian’ people as separate races is not only ‘insidious’, but “completely flase”.

Part Four is more focused on Sanatana dharma and how to educate the GenNext on our Vedic heritage and establish an ‘Open-door’ policy of sharing our culture and traditions with others. Knapp is extremely upset over the manner in which state governments have taken over temples, literally robbing them of their income and using the revenues for purposes other than providing succour to Hindus. An agry knapp says: “The threat to the survival of Hindu civilisation is real … Hindus should not sit quiet, but must be active”. He rubbishes the “elite of India” who damn any Hindu who stands up for his religion as having a “Hindutva mind-set” and one wishing to “saffronise the nation”.

A chapter on Kashmir should be must reading. This is where Knapp says “as many as 60,000 people were killed, 750,000 rendeced homeless and 600 villages renamed with Islamic names”. Adds Knapp: “Inspite of the protests by the Kashmiri Pundits, the world looked the other way and remained silent. India’s government did next to nothing. Even Human Rights activists remained silent, it was another holocaust in India against Hindus with no help from anyone”. There is one unspoken message in this work, to our secularists. It is: “Read it”. But who wants to listen to Truth?

अकबर का सच जो हमसे छुपाया गया और गलत इतिहास पढाया गया

2012-01-15T08:36:00.001-08:00

अकबर का सच जो हमसे छुपाया गया और गलत इतिहास पढाया गया

कभी भी कोई भी आत्मसम्मान वाला देश और उसके देशवासी अपने देश को लूटने , अपनी बहन बेटी के बलात्कार करने वाले और हर तरह के व्यभीचारी आक्रमण कर्ताओं लोगो के द्वारा लिखा इतिहास स्वीकार नही कर सकते......तो फिर हम लोगो को क्या हो गया है जो हम महाराणा प्रताप को कायर और अकबर को महान बोलते है....अकबर को महान बोलने वाले लोग यहाँ पर भी देखे...की कैसे हम लोगो से सच को छुपा कर आज तक गुलाम बना कर रखा गया है ...हिन्दुस्तान का अस्तित्वा मिटाने के लिए...इतिहासकार विंसेट स्मिथ ने साफ़ लिखा है की अकबर एक सबसे बड़ा दुष्कर्मी, घ्रणित, पूर्व विचारित, न्रिशंश हत्याकांड करने वाला क्रूर शशक था.....और आप और हम सब क्या पढ़ रहे है की अकबर महानता क्या ये सब महानता के लक्षण होते है???

*जून 1561- एटा जिले के (सकित परंगना) के 8 गाओं की हिंदू जनता के विरुद्ध अकबर ने खुद एक आक्रमण का संचालन करा और परोख नाम के गाओं के एक मकान मे १००० से ज़्यादा हिंदुओं को बंद करके जिंदा जलवा दिया था........क्या ये था अकबर महान?

*क्या अकबर ने हिंदू राजकुमारियों से इज़्ज़त के साथ विवाह करे..नही एक से भी नही...जोधा बाई से भी नही ....ये सभी बलात उठाई गयी थी या फिर उनके बाप भाई को हिरासत मे ले कर दी गयी यातना बंद करने का एकमात्र शर्त पूरी करने का प्रतिफल थी....चाहे वो राजा भार्मल और उनके ३ राजकुमारों को यातना दे कर उनकी पुत्री को हरम मे भेजने को मज़बूर करना हो ...इसके अनगिनत उदहारण है..सबूतों के साथ..

* सबसे मनगढ़ंत किस्सा की अकबर ने दया करके सतीप्रथा पे रोक लगा दी..जबकि इसके पीछे उसका मुख्य मकसद केवल यही था की उनके राजाओं को मार कर राजकुलिन हिन्दू नारियों को अपने हरम में ठूंस दो....राजकुमार जैमल की हत्या के पश्चात अपनी अस्मत बचाने को घोड़े पे सवार होकर सती होने जा रही उसकी पत्नी को अकबर ने शमशान घाट जा रहे सम्बन्धियों को बीच रस्ते से ही पकड़ कर उसके सारे सम्बन्धियों को कारागार में डाल के राजकुमारी को हरम में ठूंस दिया था.....अगर वो दया वाला था तो ससम्मान उसके जिंदा सम्बन्धियों को समर्पित कर देता और जाने देता.

*अकबर की प्रशंशा के गीत गाने वाला अबुल फज़ल -आईने अकबरी , को अकबर के समय के सारे मुगलों ने अकबर का एक नंबर का निर्लज्ज चापलूस बताया है

* जिसके खानदान के सारे पुरावाज़ जैसे हुमायूँ , बाबर दुनिया के सबसे बड़े जल्लाद थे और अकबर के बाद के जहागीर और औरंगजेब दुनिया के सबसे बड़े दरिन्दे थे तो ये बीच में महानता की पैदाईश कैसे हो गयी जबकि इसके कुकर्मों के सारे साक्ष्य आज भी उपस्थित है ..लेकिन हम भारतियों की हालत वही है की

* अकबर के सभी धर्म के सम्मान करने का सबसे बड़ा सबूत----हिन्दुस्थान की सभी नदियों के किनारे छोटे छोटे घाट बने है , जहाँ हिन्दू अपने पर्व पे सरलता से स्नान और पूजा करते है लेकिन हिन्दू राजाओं द्वारा निर्मित allahabaad की किले में जहाँ ये रहता था....गंगा यमुना सरस्वती का संगम ( जहाँ कुम्भ का मेला होता आ रहा है) के किनारे के सारे घाट इस पिशाच मुग़ल ने तोड़ डाले थे...आज भी वो सारे साक्ष्य वह मोजूद है..

अकबर के सभी धर्म के सम्मान करने का सबसे बड़ा सबूत---२८ फरवरी १५८० को गोवा से एक पुर्तगाली मिशन इसके एक और निवास स्थान फतेहपुर पंहुचा जहाँ उन लोगो ने इनको एक bible भेंट करी जिसे इसने बिना खोले ही वापस कर दिया...( मोदी जी के मुल्ला टोपी न पहनने पे बवाल मचने वाले सेकुलर इसके बारे में क्या कुछ बोलना चाहेंगे?)

* हमारे इतिहास में हम लोगो को मुर्ख बनाए को कहा जाता है की अकबर को देवी आती थी जबकि 1578 में उसे पहली बार मिर्गी का दौरा पड़ा था क्योंकि उसके सभी दरबारी उससे बगावत कर रहे थे जिससे उसकी मानसिक हालत ख़राब हो चुकी थी

*4 आगस्त १५८२ को इस्लाम को अस्वीकार करने के कारन सूरत के २ ईसई युवकों को अकबर ने अपने हाथों से क़त्ल किया था जबकि इसाईयों ने इन दोनों युवकों को छोड़ने के लिए १००० सोने के सिक्को का सौदा किया था..लेकिन उसने क़त्ल ज्यादा सही समझा..

*augest 1582 में 20 नवजात हिन्दू शिशुओं को उनकी माताओं से छीन कर भाषा उत्पत्ति नमक एक गन्दा अमानवीय प्रयोग करने के लिए एकांत और निर्जन स्थान पे भेज दिया जिसमे वो सभी अकाल मृत्यु के शिकार हो गए..

*1587 में जनता का धन लुटने और अपने खिलाफ हो रहे विरोधों को ख़तम करने के लिए अकबर ने एक आदेश पारित करा की जो भी उससे मिलना चाहेगा उसको अपनी उम्र के बराबर मुद्रए उसको भेंट में देनी पड़ेगी.

* जिन्दगी भर अकबर की गुलामी करने वाले हिन्दू राजा टोडरमल ने अपने जीवन के आखिरी समय में अपनी गलती मान कर उसके प्रेषित के लिए हरिद्वार में अपने प्राण त्यागने की इच्छा जताई थी..

*औरतों का झूठा सम्मान करने वाले अकबर ने सिर्फ राजपाट और अपनी हवास के लिए न जाने कितनी मुस्लिम औरतों की अस्मत लुटी थी और हिन्दू औरतों को हरम में ठूंस दिया था..इसमें मुस्लिम नारी चाँद बीबी का नाम भी है

औरतों का झूठा सम्मान करने वाले अकबर ने सिर्फ राजपाट और अपनी हवास के लिए अपनी सगी बेटी आराम बेगम की पूरी जिंदगी शादी नहीं की और अंत में उस की मौत अविवाहित ही जहागीर के शाशन काल में हुयी...

*दिनभर इसके चाटुकारिता करने वाले अबुल फज़ल की चापलूसी की हरकतों से तंग आके अकबर के पुत्र सलीम ने ही उसको घात लगा के ग्वालियर में हत्या कर दी थी

*जीवन भर इससे युद्ध करने वाले महान महाराणा प्रताप जी से अंत में इसने खुद ही हार मान ली थी और इसको हरा कर हिन्दू राजाओं की अस्मत बचाने का श्रय हिन्दू राजाओं ने महाराणा प्रताप के ही सर पे बंधा था..( इन्ही महारण को मुस्लिम तुष्टिकरण और हिन्दू क़त्ल के प्यासे गाँधी ने कायर बताया था)...इसी परंपरा को अकबर के पुत्र जहागीर ने आगेबढ़ाया था की अकबर के बार बार निवेदन करने पे भी जीवन भर जहागीर केवल ये बहाना करके .महराना प्रताप के पुत्र अमर सिंह से युद्ध करने नहीं गया की उसके पास हथियारों और सैनिकों की कमी है..जबकि असलियत ये थी की उसको अपने बाप का बुरा हश्र याद था.

शेष जारी....अभी बहुत कुछ है बाकि..

खगोलीय दृष्टि से दिवाली का महत्व :-

2012-01-15T08:33:00.001-08:00

खगोलीय दृष्टि से दिवाली का महत्व :-

मेष एवं तुला की संक्रांति में सूर्य विषुवत रेखा (नाड़ीवृत्त) पर रहता है, जिसे देवता 6 माह तक उत्तर की ओर तथा राक्षस 6 माह तक दक्षिण की ओर खींचते हैं। मंदराचल पर्वत ही नाड़ीवृत्त है, जिसके एक भाग में मेष, वृष, मिथुन, कर्क, सिंह और कन्या राशि हैं जिन्हें देवता खींचते हैं। दूसरे भाग में तुला, वृश्चिक, धनु, मकर, कुंभ और मीन राशि हैं जिन्हें राक्षस खींचते हैं। मंथन से चौदह रत्न निकलते हैं, जिनमें महालक्ष्मी कार्तिक की अमावस्या को प्रकट होती हैं।

कार्तिक कृष्ण अमावस्या को समुद्र मंथन के परिणामस्वरूप महालक्ष्मी का जन्म हुआ था। हम जिस लक्ष्मी की पूजा-अर्चना करते हैं वह अब भी प्रतिवर्ष समुद्रमंथन से निकलती हैं। ज्योतिषशास्त्र, भूगोल या खगोल की दृष्टि से देखें तो सूर्य को सभी ग्रहों का केंद्र एवं राजा माना गया है। सूर्य की बारह संक्रांतियां हैं। नाड़ीवृत्त मध्य में होता है, तीन क्रांतिवृत्त उत्तर को और तीन दक्षिण को होते हैं।

समुद्र मंथन में भगवान विष्णु की ही बड़ी भूमिका रही है और सूर्य ही भगवान विष्णु स्वरूप हैं। सूर्य क्रांतिवृत्त पर विचरण करता है। यह 6 माह उत्तर गोल में एवं 6 माह दक्षिण गोल में विचरण करता है, जिन्हें देवभाग एवं राक्षस भाग भी कहते हैं। मेष एवं तुला की संक्रांति में सूर्य विषुवत रेखा (नाड़ीवृत्त) पर रहता है, जिसे देवता 6 माह तक उत्तर की ओर तथा राक्षस 6 माह तक दक्षिण की ओर खींचते हैं।

मंदराचल पर्वत ही नाड़ीवृत्त है, जिसके एक भाग में मेष, वृष, मिथुन, कर्क, सिंह व कन्या राशि हैं जिन्हें देवता खींचते हैं। दूसरे भाग में तुला, वृश्चिक, धनु, मकर, कुंभ व मीन राशि हैं जिन्हें राक्षस खींचते हैं। मंथन से चौदह रत्न निकलते हैं, जिनमें महालक्ष्मी कार्तिक की अमावस्या को प्रकट होती हैं।

लक्ष्मी, महालक्ष्मी, राजलक्ष्मी, गृहलक्ष्मी आदि लक्ष्मी के अनेक रूप हैं। लक्ष्मी विहीन होने पर लोग ज्योतिष की शरण में भी जाते हैं। दीपावली के लिए पुराणों में अनेक कथाएं हैं। वास्तव में कार्तिक कृष्ण अमावस्या को पृथ्वी का जन्म हुआ था और पृथ्वी ही महालक्ष्मी के रूप में विष्णु की पत्नी मानी गई है। दीपावली पृथ्वी का जन्मदिन है, इसलिए इस दिन सफाई करके धूमावती नामक दरिद्रा को कूड़े-करकट के रूप में घर से बाहर निकालकर सब ओर ज्योति जलाते हैं तथा श्री कमला लक्ष्मी का आह्वान करते हैं।

दीपावली से पूर्व अच्छी वर्षा से धनधान्य की समृद्धि रूपी लक्ष्मी का आगमन भी होता है। संवत्सर के उत्तरभाग में ऋत सोम तत्व रहता है जो लगातार दक्षिण की ओर बहता रहता है। दक्षिण भाग में ऋत अग्नि रहती है जो हमेशा उत्तर की ओर बहती है। लक्ष्मी का आगमन ऋताग्नि का आगमन ही होता है।

यह दक्षिण से होता है, इसीलिए आज भी भारतीय किसान फसल की पहली कटाई दक्षिण दिशा से ही करता है। ऋताग्नि एक ऐसी ज्योति है जो पूरी प्रजा को सुख-शांति एवं समृद्धि प्रदान करती है और वही महालक्ष्मी है। ज्योतिषशास्त्र में भी जन्मकालीन ग्रहयोगों के आधार पर महालक्ष्मी योग देखा जाता है।

शास्त्रों में कहा गया है-

लक्ष्मीस्थानं त्रिकोणं स्यात् विष्णुस्थानं तु केंद्रकम्।

तयो: संबंधमात्रेण राज्यश्रीलगते नर: ।।

यह योग श्री लक्ष्मी प्राप्ति का संकेत देता है। केंद्रस्थान में लग्न, चतुर्थ, सप्तम एवं दशम भाव गिने जाते हैं तथा त्रिकोण स्थान में पंचम एवं नवम भाव को माना गया है। जिस व्यक्ति का शरीर स्वस्थ हो, स्थायी संपत्ति, सुख-सुविधा के साधन हों, जीवनसाथी मनोनुकूल हो तो वह विष्णुस्वरूप बन जाता है।

इन सब गुणों का उपयोग सद्बुद्धि एवं धर्मपरायणता के साथ हो तो व्यक्ति महालक्ष्मी एवं राज्यश्री को प्राप्त करने वाला होता है। व्यक्ति यदि कर्मशील होगा, सदाचारी होगा, गुरुनिंदा, चोरी, हिंसा आदि दुराचारों से दूर रहेगा तो लक्ष्मी स्वत: उसके यहां स्थान बना लेगी।

पौराणिक प्रसंगों में स्वयं लक्ष्मी कहती हैं-

नाकर्मशीले पुरुषे वरामि, न नास्तिके, सांकरिके कृतघ्ने।

न भिन्नवृत्ते, न नृशंरावण्रे, न चापि चौरे, न गुरुष्वसूये।।

अत: कर्मशील एवं सदाचारी व्यक्ति को ही राज्यश्री एवं महालक्ष्मी योग बन पाता है। जबकि लोगों की ऐसी धारणा है कि खूब पैसा, धन दौलत हो तो आनंद की प्राप्ति हो सकती है, पर यह धारणा गलत है। ज्योतिषशास्त्र एवं पौराणिक ग्रंथों में महालक्ष्मी का स्वरूप दन-दौलत या संपत्ति के रूप में नहीं बताया गया है।

लक्ष्मीवान उस व्यक्ति को माना गया है जिसका शरीर सही रहे और जिसे जीवन के हर मोड़ पर प्रसन्नता के भाव मिलते रहें। मुद्रा के स्थान एवं खर्च के स्थान को महालक्ष्मीयोग का कारक नहीं माना गया है बल्कि प्राप्त मुद्रा रूपी लक्ष्मी को सद्बुद्धि के साथ कैसे खर्च करके आनंद लिया जाए, इसे माना गया है। इसीलिए महालक्ष्मी पूजन में महालक्ष्मी, महासरस्वती एवं गणोश जी का पूजन एक साथ किया जाता है।

गणोश बुद्धि के देवता हैं तथा सरस्वती ज्ञान की देवी हैं, इसीलिए लक्ष्मी के पहले श्री शब्द लगाया जाता है। यह श्री सरस्वती का बोधक होता है। इसका भाव यह निकलता है कि मुद्रारूपी लक्ष्मी को भी यदि कोई प्राप्त करता है तो श्रेष्ठ गति के साथ जो उसका उपयोग एवं उपभोग करता है, वह आनंद की अनुभूति करता है।

PRESENCE OF HINDUS IN ANCIENT ARAB BEFORE ISLAM

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The presence in Arabia of many Hindus. mostly Brahmins. before the rise of Islam, has been recorded by the historian Sisir Kumar Mitra, in his book ‘The Vision of India’. page 183. These people observed Hindu religious customs, including the worship of Shiva and Makresha from which the name of Mecca is said to have been derived. The famous astrologer Yavanacharya was born of one such Brahmin family. It was from these Brahmins that the Arabs learnt the science of Mathematics, Astrology, Algebra and decimal notation which were first developed in India.

At the time of the war of Karbala (Oct. 680 AD). Rahab Sidh Datt, a potentate of Datt sect, was a highly esteemed figure of Arabia due to his close relations with the family of Prophet Mohammed. In the holy war when no Muslim King came to help Hussain. Rahab fought On his side mld sacrificed his seven sons (named Sahas Rai. Haras Rai, Sher Khan, Rai Pun, Ram Singh, Dharoo and Poroo) in the bloody war.

A Brief Account of the Episode: After the death of Mohammed, he was succeeded by Abu Bakr, Omar and Osman, as the Caliphs: all three were related to him by marriage alliances. Osman was not popular and was assassinated. After his death, Hazrat AlL the son-in-law of Mohammed (he was also his first cousin) who was married to the Prophet’s third daughter and the only surviving issue, Bibi Fatima Zahira, became the 4th Caliph. There was stiff opposition to Ali’s rule from Amir Moavia, a known protege of Osman. He fought with him a bitter war for 5 years and finally got him murdered in a mosque of Koofa, his mausoleum with a golden dome, stands in the nearby town of Najaf (Iraq). After the extermination of Ali, Moavia grabbed the Caliphate and converted the Islamic state into a kingdom, After his death, his notorious son Yazid became the next ruler. However, the rightful claimants of the Caliphate were the descendants of Hazrat Ali, namely, Hassan and Hussain. While Hassan abdicated his claim to the crown and later died of suspected poisoning, his younger brother Imam Hussain who was till then leading a secluded life in Medina, came out and challenged the usurper, Yazid. It was the war of attrition between the two which led to the bloodshed of Karbala (102 km south of Baghdad), on Oct. 10, 680 AD.

The participation of the Mohyals Brahmins and more precisely that of a Dutt family living in Arabia at that time, in the holy war, is a fact of the history. They were a part of the entourage of 200 men and women, including 72 members of Hussain’s family (40 on foot and 32 on horseback), when he left Medina and made an arduous trek to Karbala, where he had a large friendly following. After 18 days, i.e. on the 2nd. day of Mohurrum, the Hussain’s caravan reached Karbala, on the bank of river Euphrates and surrounded by a hostile desert. On the 7th day of Mohurrum, all hell broke out when 30,000 strong army sent by Yazid from Mecca and other places, attacked them. 6,000 soldiers guarded the river bank to ensure that not a drop of water reached the Hussain’s thirsty innocents. By sunset of 10th (Ashoor), a Friday, all were dead including his step brother Abbas (32), his son Ali Akbar (22), daughter Skeena (4) and 6 months old infant Ali Asghar who was killed by an arrow while perched in his lap. Imam Hussain himself was slain with thirty three strokes of lances and swords by Shimr, the hatchet man of ignominious Yazid. The ruffians of Yazid, as they ran carrying the smitten head of Hussain to the castle of Koofa, were chased by Rahab. He retrieved the holy man’s head, washed it reverentially and then carried it to Damascus. According to legend, he was overtaken by Yazid’s men during his ovenight shelter on the way. They demanded Hussain’s head from him: Rahab executed the head of one of his sons and offered to them. They shouted that it was not the Hussain’s head, then he beheaded his second son and they again yelled that it was not his. In this way Rahab executed the heads of his seven sons but did not part with the head of Imam Hussain. Later, after one year, it was buried in Karbala along with rest of his body.

The intrepid Datts rallied round Amir Mukhtar, the chief of the partisans of Imam Hussain, fought with extraordinary heroism and captured and razed the fort of Koofa, seat of Yazid’s governor, Obaidullah, the Butcher. After scoring a resounding victory on the battlefield, they beat the drums and yelled out that they had avenged the innocent blood of Hussain shed at Karbala.

It is also significant to note that even before the Karbala incident, Hazrat Ali had entrusted the public exchequer to the regiment of the valiant Datts, at the time of the Battle of Camels fought near Basra.

The above provides an impeccable evidence about tha pragmatic role played by the Datt Mohyals in the catastrophe of Karbala. There are more than a dozen ballads composed centuries ago which vividly and with great passion describe the scenario of the historic event.

Interestingly, in the Preface of his famous historical novel, titled Karbala, published in 1924 from Lucknow, Munshi Prem Chand has stated that the Hindus who fought and sacrificed their lives in the holy war of Karbala, are believed to be the descendants of Ashvathama.This clearly establishes their link with the Datts who consider Ashvathama as an ancestor of their clan.

Later on, when Sunnis let loose an orgy of vendetta on Shias and Datts, Datts returned to their motherland around 700 AD and settled at Dina Nagar, District Sialkot (vide Bandobast Report of Gujarat by Mirza Azam Beg page 422 and folk songs) and some drifted to as far as the holy Pushkar in Rajasthan. Starting from Harya Bandar (modern Basra on the bank of river Tigris) with swords in hand and beating durms, they forced their way through Syria and Asia Minor and marching onwards captured Ghazni, Balkh and Bukhara. After annexing Kandhar, they converged on Sind and crossing the Sind at Attock they entered the Punjab.

An ancestor of Rahab named Sidh Viyog Datt assumed the title of Sultan and made Arabia (old name Iraq) his home. He was a tough and tenacious fighter. He was also known as Mir Sidhani. He was a worshipper of Brahma. He was the son of the stalwart Sidh Jhoja (Vaj) who was a savant and saint and lived in Arabia (Iraq) around 600 AD.

The supporters of Hassan and Hussain honoured the Datts with the htle of ‘Hussaini Brahmin’ and treated them with great reverence in grateful recognition of the supreme sacrifices made by them in the war of Karbala. According to Jang Nama, written by Ahmed Punjabi, pages 175-176, it was ordained on the Shias to recite the name of Rahab in their daily prayer. At the time to the Karbala, fourteen hundred Hussaini Brahmins lived in Baghdad alone

Sacred Symbols Endearing Icons of Hindu Art & Culture

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Sacred Symbols Endearing Icons of Hindu Art & Culture

Endearing images embodying intuitions of the spirit that adorn Hindu art, architecture and iconography symbols adorn our world and mind at every turn -- in our spiritual, social and political experience. A ring or gold pendant serves to silently attest to and strengthen wedded love. On a mountainous road in any country, a sign with a truck silhouette on a steeply angled line warns drivers of dropping grades ahead. The red cross signals aid and comfort in crises. Golden arches tell the vegan to beware. Among the best known symbols in the world are the simple numerals: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. They originated in ancient India as characters of the Brahmi script. Now and then, historic images or happenings are supercharged into symbols. The awesome mushroom cloud of the terrifying specter of nuclear destruction.

It is humanity's sacred symbols, its icons of Divinity and Reality, that wield the greatest power to inform and transform consciousness. Taoists gazing upon a yin-yang symbol, Navajo Indians delicately pouring a feather symbol in a sand painting,

Pranava Aum

Pranava, Aum, is the root mantra and primal sound from which all creation issues forth. It is associated with Lord Ganesha. Its three syllables stand at the beginning and end of every sacred verse, every human act.

Ganesha

Ganesha is the Lord of Obstacles and Ruler of Dharma. Seated upon His throne, He guides our karmas through creating and removing obstacles from our path. We seek His permission and blessings in every undertaking.

Vata

Vata, the banyan tree, Ficus indicus, symbolizes Hinduism, which branches out in all directions, draws from many roots, spreads shade far and wide, yet stems from one great trunk. Siva as Silent Sage sits beneath it.

Tripundra

Tripundra is a Saivite's great mark, three stripes of white vibhuti on the brow. This holy ash signifies purity and the burning away of anava, karma and maya. The bindu, or dot, at the third eye quickens spiritual insight.

Nataraja

Nataraja is Siva as "King of Dance." Carved in stone or cast in bronze, His ananda tandava, the fierce ballet of bliss, dances the cosmos into and out of existence within the fiery arch of flames denoting consciousness.

Mayil

Mayil, "peacock," is Lord Murugan's mount, swift and beautiful like Karttikeya Himself. The proud display of the dancing peacock symbolizes religion in full, unfolded glory. His shrill cry warns of approaching harm.

Nandi

Nandi is Lord Siva's mount, or vahana. This huge white bull with a black tail, whose name means "joyful," disciplined animality kneeling at Siva's feet, is the ideal devotee, the pure joy and strength of Saiva Dharma.

Bilva

Bilva is the bael tree. Its fruit, flowers and leaves are all sacred to Siva, liberation's summit. Planting Aegle marmelos trees around home or temple is sanctifying, as is worshiping a Linga with bilva leaves and water.

Padma

Padma is the lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera, perfection of beauty, associated with Deities and the chakras, especially the 1,000-petaled sahasrara. Rooted in the mud, its blossom is a promise of purity and unfoldment.

Swastika

Swastika is the symbol of auspiciousness and good fortune -- literally, "It is well." The right-angled arms of this ancient sun-sign denote the indirect way that Divinity is apprehended: by intuition and not by intellect.

Mahakala

Mahakala, "Great Time," presides above creation's golden arch. Devouring instants and eons, with a ferocious face, He is Time beyond time, reminder of this world's transitoriness, that sin and suffering will pass.

Ankusa

Ankusha, the goad held in Lord Ganesha's right hand, is used to remove obstacles from dharma's path. It is the force by which all wrongful things are repelled from us, the sharp prod which spurs the dullards onward.

Anjali

Anjali, the gesture of two hands brought together near the heart, means to "honor or celebrate." It is our Hindu greeting, two joined as one, the bringing together of matter and spirit, the self meeting the Self in all.

Aum.

Go, the cow, is a symbol of the earth, the nourisher, the ever-giving, undemanding provider. To the Hindu, all animals are sacred, and we acknowledge this reverence of life in our special affection for the gentle cow.

Ghanta

Ghanta is the bell used in ritual puja, which engages all senses, including hearing. Its ringing summons the Gods, stimulates the inner ear and reminds us that, like sound, the world may be perceived but not possessed.

Gopuras are the towering stone gateways through which pilgrims enter the South Indian temple. Richly ornamented with myriad sculptures of the divine pantheon, their tiers symbolize the several planes of existence.

Kalasha

Kalasha, a husked coconut circled by five mango leaves on a pot, is used in puja to represent any God, especially Lord Ganesha. Breaking a coconut before His shrine is the ego's shattering to reveal the sweet fruit inside.

Kuttuvilaku

Kuttuvilaku, the standing oil lamp, symbolizes the dispelling of ignorance and awakening of the divine light within us. Its soft glow illumines the temple or shrine room, keeping the atmosphere pure and serene

Rudraksha

Rudraksha seeds, Eleocarpus ganitrus, are prized as the compassionate tears Lord Siva shed for mankind's suffering. Saivites wear malas of them always as a symbol of God's love, chanting on each bead, "Aum Namah Sivaya.

Trishula

Siva's trident carried by Himalayan yogis, is the royal scepter of the Saiva Dharma. Its triple prongs betoken desire, action and wisdom; ida, pingala and sushumna; and the gunas -- sattva, rajas and tamas.

Dhvaja

Dhvaja, "flag," is the orange or red banner flown above temples, at festivals and in processions. It is a symbol of victory, signal to all that "Sanatana Dharma shall prevail." Its color betokens the sun's life-giving glow.

Kalachakra

Kalachakra, "wheel, or circle, of time," is the symbol of perfect creation, of the cycles of existence. Time and space are interwoven, and eight spokes mark the directions, each ruled by a Deity and having a unique quality.

इस्लाम दास प्रथा और जाति प्रथा

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इस्लाम भ्रातृ-भाव की बात कहता है। हर व्यक्ति यही अनुमान लगाता है कि इस्लाम दास प्रथा और जाति प्रथा से मुक्त होगा। गुलामी के बारे में तो कहने की आवश्यकता ही नहीं। अब कानून यह समाप्त हो चुकी है। परन्तु जब यह विद्यमान थी, तो ज्यादातर समर्थन इसे इस्लाम और इस्लामी देशों से ही मिलता था। कुरान में पैंगबर ने गुलामों के साथ उचित इस्लाम में ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं है जो इस अभिषाप के उन्मूलन के समर्थन में हो।

मुसलमान दो मुखय सामाजिक विभाग मानते हैं-१. अशरफ अथवा शरु और २. अज़लफ। अशरफ से तात्पर्य है 'कुलीन' और शेष अन्य मुसलमान जिनमें व्यावसायिक वर्ग और निचली जातियों के मुसलमान शामिल हैं उन्हें अज़लफ अर्थात्‌ नीचा अथवा निकृष्ट व्यक्ति माना जाता है। उन्हें कमीना अथवा इतर कमीन या रासिल, जो रिजाल का भ्रष्ट रूप है, 'बेकार' कहा जाता है। कुछ स्थानों पर एक तीसरा वर्ग 'अरज़ल' भी है, जिसमें आने वाले व्यक्ति सबसे नीच समझे जाते हैं। उनके साथ कोई भी अन्य मुसलमान मिलेगा-जुलेगा नहीं और न उन्हें मस्जिद और सार्वजनिक कब्रिस्तानों में प्रवेश करने दिया जाता है।

१. 'अशरफ' अथवा उच्च वर्ग के मुसलमान (प) सैयद, (पप) शेख, (पपप) पठान, (पअ) मुगल, (अ) मलिक और (अप) मिर्ज़ा।

२. 'अज़लफ' अथवा निम्न वर्ग के मुसलमान

1. खेती करने वाले शेख और अन्य वे लोग जो मूलतः हिन्दू थे, किन्तु किसी बुद्धिजीवी वर्ग से सम्बन्धित नहीं हैं और जिन्हें अशरफ समुदाय, अर्थात्‌ पिराली और ठकराई आदि में प्रवेश नहीं मिला है।

2. दर्जी, जुलाहा, फकीर और रंगरेज।

3. बाढ़ी, भटियारा, चिक, चूड़ीहार, दाई, धावा, धुनिया, गड्‌डी, कलाल, कसाई, कुला, कुंजरा, लहेरी, माहीफरोश, मल्लाह, नालिया, निकारी।

4. अब्दाल, बाको, बेडिया, भाट, चंबा, डफाली, धोबी, हज्जाम, मुचो, नगारची, नट, पनवाड़िया, मदारिया, तुन्तिया।

३. 'अरजल' अथवा निकृष्ट वर्ग भानार, हलालखोदर, हिजड़ा, कसंबी, लालबेगी, मोगता, मेहतर।

पंचायत का प्राधिकार सामाजिक तथा व्यापार सम्बन्धी मामलों तक व्याप्त है और........अन्य समुदायों के लोगों से विवाह एक ऐसा अपराध है, जिस पर शासी निकायकार्यवाही करता है। परिणामत: ये वर्ग भी हिन्दू जातियों के समान ही प्रायः कठोर संगोती हैं, अंतर-विवाह पर रोक ऊंची जातियों से लेकर नीची जातियों तक लागू है। उदाहरणतः कोई घूमा अपनी ही जाति अर्थात्‌ घूमा में ही विवाह कर सकता है। यदि इस नियम की अवहेलना की जाती है तो ऐसा करने वाले को तत्काल पंचायत के समक्ष पेश किया जाता है। एक जाति का कोई भी व्यक्ति आसानी से किसी दूसरी जाति में प्रवेश नहीं ले पाता और उसे अपनी उसी जाति का नाम कायम रखना पड़ता है, जिसमें उसने जन्म लिया है। यदि वह अपना लेता है, तब भी उसे उसी समुदाय का माना जाता है, जिसमें कि उसने जन्म लिया था..... हजारों जुलाहे कसाई का धंधा अपना चुके हैं, किन्तु वे अब भी जुलाहे ही कहे जाते हैं।''

इसी तरह के तथ्य अन्य भारतीय प्रान्तों के बारे में भी वहाँ की जनगणना रिपोर्टों से वे लोग एकत्रित कर सकते हैं, जो उनका उल्लेख करना चाहते हों। परन्तु बंगाल के तयि ही यह दर्शाने के लिए पर्याप्त हैं कि मुसलमानों में जाति प्राणी ही नहीं, छुआछूत भी प्रचलित है।

९. इस्लामी कानून समाज-सुधार के विरोधी-''मुसलमानों में इन बुराइयों का होना दुखदहैं। किन्तु उससे भी अधिक दुखद तथ्य यह है कि भारत के मुसलमानों में समाज सुधार का ऐसा कोई संगठित आन्दोलन नहीं उभरा जो इन बुराईयों का सफलतापूर्वक उन्मूलन कर सके। हिन्दुओं में भी अनेक सामाजिक बुराईयां हैं। परन्तु सन्तोषजनक बात यह है कि उनमें से अनेक इनकी विद्यमानता के प्रति सजग हैं और उनमें से कुछ उन बुराईयों के उन्मूलन हेतु सक्रिय तौर पर आन्दोलन भी चला रहे हैं। दूसरी ओर, मुसलमान यह महसूस ही नहीं करते कि ये बुराईयां हैं। परिणामतः वे उनके निवारण हेतु सक्रियता भी नहीं दर्शाते। इसके विपरीत, वे अपनी मौजूदा प्रथाओं में किसी भी परिवर्तन का विरोध करते हैं। यह उल्लेखनीय है कि मुसलमानों ने केन्द्रीय असेंबली में १९३० में पेश किए गए बाल विवाह विरोधी विधेयक का भी विरोध किया था, जिसमें लड़की की विवाह-योग्य आयु १४ वर्ष् और लड़के की १८ वर्ष करने का प्रावधान था। मुसलमानों ने इस विधेयक का विरोध इस आधार पर किया कि ऐसा किया जाना मुस्लिम धर्मग्रन्थ द्वारा निर्धारित कानून के विरुद्ध होगा। उन्होंने इस विधेयक का हर चरण पर विरोध ही नहीं किया, बल्कि जब यह कानून बन गया तो उसके खिलाफ सविनय अवज्ञाअभियान भी छेड़ा। सौभाग्य से उक्त अधिनियम के विरुद्ध मुसलमानों द्वारा छोड़ा गया वह अभ्यिान फेल नहीं हो पाया, और उन्हीं दिनों कांग्रेस द्वारा चलाए गए सविनय अवज्ञा आन्दोलन में समा गया। परन्तु उस अभियान से यह तो सिद्ध हो ही जाता है कि मुसलमान समाज सुधार के कितने प्रबल विरोधी हैं।'' (पृ. २२६)

(सभी उद्धरण बाबा साहेब डॉ. अम्बेडकर सम्पूर्ण वाड्‌मय, खंड १५-'पाकिस्तान और भारत के विभाजन, २००० से लिए गए हैं)

भारत में छूआछूत का कलंक मुसलमानों की देन

2012-01-15T06:53:00.000-08:00

भारत में छूआछूत का कलंक मुसलमानों की देन

कुछ लोगों का मानना है कि भारत में इस्लाम का प्रचार-प्रसार बहुत ही सौहार्दपूर्ण वातावरण में हुआ है. उनका यह भी कहना है की हिंदू समाज में छुआछात के कारण भारत में हिन्दुओं ने बड़ी मात्रा में इस्लाम को अपनाया. उनके शब्दों में -

"हिंदुओं के मध्‍य फैले रूढिगत जातिवाद और छूआछात के कारणवश खासतौर पर कथित पिछड़ी जातियों के लोग इस्‍लाम के साम्‍यभाव और भाईचारे की ओर आकृष्‍ट हुए और स्‍वेच्‍छापूर्वक इस्‍लाम को ग्रहण किया।"

जिन लोगों ने अंग्रेजों द्वारा लिखे गए व स्वतंत्र भारत के वामपंथी 'बुद्धिजीवियों' द्वारा दुर्भावनापूर्वक विकृत किये गए भारतीय इतिहास को पढ़कर अपनी उपर्युक्त धारणाएँ बना रखीं हैं, उन्हें इतिहास का शोधपरक अध्ययन करना चाहिए. उपर्युक्त कथन के विपरीत, सूर्य जैसा जगमगाता हुआ सच तो यह है कि भारत के लोगों का इस्लाम के साथ पहला-पहला परिचय युद्ध के मैदान में हुआ था.

भारतवासियों ने पहले ही दिन से 'दीन' के बन्दों के 'ईमान' में मल्लेछ प्रवृत्ति वाले असुरों की झलक को साफ़-साफ़ देख लिया था तथा उस पहले ही दिन से भारत के लोगों ने उन क्रूर आक्रान्ताओं और बर्बर लोगों से घृणा करना शुरू कर दिया था.

अतः, इस कथन में कोई सच्चाई नहीं है कि भारत के लोगों ने इस्लाम के कथित 'साम्यभाव और भाईचारे' के दर्शन किये और उससे आकर्षित होकर स्वेच्छापूर्वक इस्लाम को ग्रहण किया.

असल में, हिंदुत्व और इस्लाम, दोनों बिलकुल भिन्न विचारधाराएँ हैं, बल्कि साफ़ कहा जाए तो दोनों एक दूसरे से पूर्णतया विपरीत मान्यताओं वाली संस्कृतियाँ हैं, जिनके मध्य सदियों पहले शुरू हुआ संघर्ष आज तक चल रहा है.

हाँ, इस्लामी आक्रमण के अनेक वर्षों बाद भारत में कुछ समय के लिए सूफियों का खूब बोलबाला रहा. सूफियों के उस 'उदारवादी' काल में निश्चित रूप से इस्लामी क्रूरता भी मंद पड़ गयी थी. परन्तु, उस काल में भी भारत के मूल हिंदू समाज ने कथित इस्लामी 'साम्यभाव' से मोहित होकर स्वेच्छापूर्वक इस्लाम को अपनाने का कोई अभियान शुरू कर दिया था, इस बात का कोई ठोस प्रमाण नहीं मिलता है.

हाँ, संघर्ष की इस लम्बी कालावधि में स्वयं समय ने ही कुछ घाव भरे और अंग्रेजों के आगमन से पहले तक दोनों समुदायों के लोगों ने परस्पर संघर्ष रहित जीवन जीने का कुछ-कुछ ढंग सीख लिया था. उस समय इस्लामिक कट्टरवाद अंततः भारतीय संस्कृति में विलीन होने लगा था.

यथार्थ में, भारत के हिन्दुओं को इस्लाम के कथित 'साम्यभाव और भाईचारे' का कभी भी परिचय नहीं मिल पाया. इस बात का सबसे बड़ा प्रमाण तो यही है कि मुसलमानों ने भारत के सनातन-हिंदू-धर्मावलम्बियों के साथ किसी दूसरे कारण से नहीं, बल्कि इस्लाम के ही नाम पर लगातार संघर्ष जारी रखा है. हिन्दुओं ने भी इस्लामी आतकवादियों के समक्ष कभी भी अपनी हार नहीं मानी और वे मुसलमानों के प्रथम आक्रमण के समय से ही उनके अमानवीय तौर-तरीकों के विरुद्ध निरंतर संघर्ष करते आ रहे हैं. महमूद गज़नबी हो या तैमूरलंग, नादिरशाह हो या औरंगजेब, जिन्ना हो या जिया उल हक अथवा मुशर्रफ, कट्टरपंथी मुसलमानों के विरुद्ध हिन्दुओं का संघर्ष पिछले 1200 वर्षों से लगातार चलता आ रहा है.

जिस इस्लाम के कारण भारत देश में सदियों से चला आ रहा भीषण संघर्ष आज भी जारी हो, उसके मूल निवासियों के बारे में यह कहना कि यहाँ के लोग उसी 'इस्‍लाम के साम्‍यभाव और भाईचारे की ओर आकृष्‍ट हुए', एक निराधार कल्पना मात्र है, जोकि सत्य से कोसों दूर है. भारत के इतिहास में ऐसा एक भी प्रमाण नहीं मिलता जिसमे हिंदू समाज के लोगों ने इस्लाम में साम्यभाव देखा हो और इसके भाई चारे से आकृष्ट होकर लोगों ने सामूहिक रूप से इस्लाम को अपनाया हो.

आइये, अब हिन्दुओं के रूढ़िगत जातिवाद और छुआछूत पर भी विचार कर लें. हिन्दुओं में आदिकाल से गोत्र व्यवस्था रही है, वर्ण व्यवस्था भी थी, परन्तु जातियाँ नहीं थीं. वेद सम्मत वर्ण व्यवस्था समाज में विभिन्न कार्यों के विभाजन की दृष्टि से लागू थी. यह व्यवस्था जन्म पर आधारित न होकर सीधे-सीधे कर्म (कार्य) पर आधारित थी. कोई भी वर्ण दूसरे को ऊँचा या नीचा नहीं समझता था. उदारणार्थ- अपने प्रारंभिक जीवन में शूद्र कर्म में प्रवृत्त वाल्मीकि जी जब अपने कर्मों में परिवर्तन के बाद पूजनीय ब्राह्मणों के वर्ण में मान्यता पा गए तो वे तत्कालीन समाज में महर्षि के रूप में प्रतिष्ठित हुए. श्री राम सहित चारों भाइयों के विवाह के अवसर पर जब जनकपुर में राजा दशरथ ने चारों दुल्हनों की डोली ले जाने से पहले देश के सभी प्रतिष्ठित ब्राह्मणों को दान और उपहार देने के लिए बुलाया था, तो उन्होंने श्री वाल्मीकि जी को भी विशेष आदर के साथ आमंत्रित किया था.

संभव है, हिंदू समाज में मुसलमानों के आगमन से पहले ही जातियाँ अपने अस्तित्व में आ गयी हों, परन्तु भारत की वर्तमान जातिप्रथा में छुआछूत का जैसा घिनौना रूप अभी देखने में आता है, वह निश्चित रूप से मुस्लिम आक्रान्ताओं की ही देन है.

कैसे? देखिए-आरम्भ से ही मुसलमानों के यहाँ पर्दा प्रथा अपने चरम पर रही है. यह भी जगजाहिर है कि मुसलमान लड़ाकों के कबीलों में पारस्परिक शत्रुता रहा करती थी. इस कारण, कबीले के सरदारों व सिपाहियों की बेगमे कभी भी अकेली कबीले से बाहर नहीं निकलती थीं. अकेले बाहर निकलने पर इन्हें दुश्मन कबीले के लोगों द्वारा उठा लिए जाने का भय रहता था. इसलिए, ये अपना शौच का काम भी घर में ही निपटाती थीं. उस काल में कबीलों में शौच के लिए जो व्यवस्था बनी हुई थी, उसके अनुसार घर के भीतर ही शौच करने के बाद उस विष्टा को हाथ से उठाकर घर से दूर कहीं बाहर फेंककर आना होता था.

सरदारों ने इस काम के लिए अपने दासों को लगा रखा था. जो व्यक्ति मैला उठाने के काम के लिए नियुक्त था, उससे फिर खान-पान से सम्बंधित कोई अन्य काम नहीं करवाते थे. स्वाभाविक रूप से कबीले के सबसे निकम्मे व्यक्ति को ही विष्ठा उठाने वाले काम में लगाया जाता था. कभी-कभी दूसरे लोगों को भी यह काम सजा के तौर पर करना पड़ जाता था. इस प्रकार, वह मैला उठाने वाला आदमी इस्लामी समाज में पहले तो निकृष्ट/नीच घोषित हुआ और फिर एकमात्र विष्टा उठाने के ही काम पर लगे रहने के कारण बाद में उसे अछूत घोषित कर दिया गया.

वर्तमान में, हिंदू समाज में जाति-प्रथा और छूआछात का जो अत्यंत निंदनीय रूप देखने में आता है, वह इस समाज को मुस्लिम आक्रान्ताओं की ही देन है. आगे इसे और अधिक स्पष्ट करेंगे कि कैसे?

अपने लम्बे संघर्ष के बाद चंद जयचंदों के पाप के कारण जब इस्लाम भारत में अपनी घुसपैठ बनाने में कामयाब हो ही गया, तो बाद में कुतर्क फ़ैलाने में माहिर मुसलमान बुद्धिजीविओं ने घर में बैठकर विष्टा करने की अपनी ही घिनौनी रीत को हिंदू समाज पर थोप दिया और बाद में हिन्दुओं पर जातिवाद और छुआछात फ़ैलाने के उलटे आरोप मढ़ दिए.

यह अकाट्य सत्य है कि मुसलमानों के आने से पहले घर में शौच करने और मैला ढोने की परम्परा सनातन हिंदू समाज में थी ही नहीं. जब हिंदू शौच के लिए घर से निकल कर किसी दूर स्थान पर ही दिशा मैदान के लिए जाया करते थे, तो विष्टा उठाने का तो प्रश्न ही नहीं उठता. जब विष्टा ढोने का आधार ही समाप्त हो जाता है, तो हिंदू समाज में अछूत कहाँ से आ गया?

हिन्दुओं के शास्त्रों में इन बातों का स्पष्ट रूप से उल्लेख किया गया है कि व्यक्ति को शौच के लिए गाँव के बाहर किस दिशा में कहाँ जाना चाहिए तथा कब, किस दिशा की ओर मुँह करके शौच के लिए बैठना चाहिए आदि-आदि.

प्रमाण-

नैऋत्यामिषुविक्षेपमतीत्याभ्यधि

कमभुवः I (पाराशरo)

" यदि खुली जगह मिले तो गाँव से नैऋत्यकोण (दक्षिण और पश्चिम के बीच) की ओर कुछ दूर जाएँ."

दिवा संध्यासु कर्णस्थब्रह्मसूत्र उद्न्मुखः I

कुर्यान्मूत्रपुरीषे तु रात्रौ च दक्षिणामुखः II (याज्ञ o १ I १६, बाधूलस्मृ o ८)

"शौच के लिए बैठते समय सुबह, शाम और दिन में उत्तर की ओर मुँह करें तथा रात में दक्षिण की ओर "

(सभी प्रमाण जिस नित्यकर्म पूजाप्रकाश, गीताप्रेस गोरखपुर, संवत २०५४, चोदहवाँ संस्करण, पृष्ठ १३ से उद्धृत किये गए हैं, वह पुस्तक एक सामान्य हिंदू के घर में सहज ही उपलब्ध होती है).

इस्लाम की विश्वव्यापी आँधी के विरुद्ध सत्वगुण संपन्न हिंदू समाज के भीषण संघर्ष की गाथा बड़ी ही मार्मिक है.

'दीन' के नाम पर सोने की चिड़िया को बार-लूटने के लिए आने वाले मुसलमानों ने उदार चित्त हिन्दुओं पर बिना चेतावनी दिए ही ताबड़तोड़ हमले बोले. उन्होंने हिंदू ललनाओं के शील भंग किये, कन्याओं को उठाकर ले गए. दासों की मण्डी से आये बर्बर अत्याचारियों ने हारे हुए सभी हिंदू महिला पुरुषों को संपत्ति सहित अपनी लूट की कमाई समझा और मिल-बाँटकर भोगा. हजारों क्षत्राणियों को अपनी लाज बचाने के लिए सामूहिक रूप से जौहर करना पड़ा और वे जीवित ही विशाल अग्नि-कुण्डों में कूद गयीं.

क्षत्रियों को इस्लाम अपनाने के लिए पीड़ित करते समय घोर अमानवीय यंत्रनाएँ दीं गयीं. जो लोग टूट गए, वे मुसलमान बन जाने से इनके भाई हो गए और अगली लूट के माल में हिस्सा पाने लगे. जो जिद्दी हिंदू अपने मानव धर्म पर अडिग रहे तथा जिन्हें बलात्कारी लुटेरों का साथी बनना नहीं भाया, उन्हें निर्दयता से मार गिराया गया. अपने देश में सोनिया माइनो के कई खास सिपाहसालार तथा मौके को देखकर आज भी तुरंत पाला बदल जाने वाले अनेकानेक मतान्तरित मुसलमान उन्हीं सुविधाभोगी क्षत्रियों की संतानें हैं, जो पहले कभी हिंदू ही थे तथा जिन्होंने जान बचाने के लिए अपने शाश्वत हिंदू धर्म को ठोकर मार दी. उन लोगों ने अपनी हिफाज़त के लिए अपनी बेटियों की लाज को तार-तार हो जाने दिया और उन नर भेड़ियों का साथ देना ही ज्यादा फायदेमंद समझा. बाद में ये नए-नए मुसलमान उन लुटेरों के साथ मिलकर अपने दूसरे हिंदू रिश्तेदारों की कन्याओं को उठाने लगे.

किसी कवि की दो पंक्तियाँ हैं, जो उस काल के हिंदू क्षत्रियों के चरित्र का सटीक चित्रण करती हैं-

जिनको थी आन प्यारी वो बलिदान हो गए,

जिनको थी जान प्यारी, मुसलमान हो गए I

विषय के विस्तार से बचते हुए, यहाँ, अपनी उस बात को ही और अधिक स्पष्ट करते हैं कि कैसे मुसलमानों ने ही हिन्दुओं में छुआछूत के कलंक को स्थापित किया. अल्लाह के 'दीन' को अपने 'ईमान' से दुनिया भर में पहुँचाने के अभियान पर निकले निष्ठुर कठमुल्लों ने हिंदू को अपनी राह का प्रमुख रोड़ा मान लिया था. इसलिए, उन्होंने अपने विश्वास के प्रति निष्ठावान हिंदू पर बेहिसाब जुल्म ढहाए. आततायी मुसलमान सुल्तानों के जमाने में असहाय हिंदू जनता पर कैसे-कैसे अत्याचार हुए, उन सबका अंश मात्र भी वर्णन कर पाना संभव नहीं है.

मुसलमानों के अत्याचारों के खिलाफ लड़ने वाले क्षत्रिय वीरों की तीन प्रकार से अलग-अलग परिणतियाँ हुईं.

पहली परिणति-

जिन हिंदू वीरों को धर्म के पथ पर लड़ते-लड़ते मार गिराया गया, वे वीरगति को प्राप्त होकर धन्य हो गए. उनके लिए सीधे मोक्ष के द्वार खुल गए.

दूसरी परिणति-

जो भट्ट, पटेल, मलिक, चौधरी, धर (डार) आदि मौत से डरकर मुसलमान बन गए, उनकी चांदी हो गई. अब उन्हें किसी भी प्रकार का सामाजिक कष्ट न रहा, बल्कि उनका सामाजिक रुतबा पहले से कहीं अधिक बढ़ गया. अब उन्हें धर्म के पक्के उन जिद्दी हिन्दुओं के ऊपर ताल्लुकेदार बनाकर बिठा दिया गया, जिनके यहाँ कभी वे स्वयं चाकरी किया करते थे. उन्हें करों में ढेरों रियायतें मिलने लगीं, जजिये की तो चिंता ही शेष न रही.

तीसरी परिणति-

हज़ार वर्षों से भी अधिक चले हिंदू-मुस्लिम संघर्ष का यह सबसे अधिक मार्मिक और पीड़ाजनक अध्याय है.

यह तीसरे प्रकार की परिणति उन हिंदू क्षत्रियों की हुई, जिन्हें युद्ध में मारा नहीं गया, बल्कि कैद कर लिया गया. मुसलमानों ने उनसे इस्लाम कबूलवाने के लिए उन्हें घोर यातनाएँ दीं. चूँकि, अपने उदात्त जीवन में उन्होंने असत्य के आगे कभी झुकना नहीं सीखा था, इसलिए सब प्रकार के जुल्मों को सहकर भी उन्होंने इस्लाम नहीं कबूला. अपने सनातन हिंदू धर्म के प्रति अटूट विश्वास ने उन्हें मुसलमान न बनने दिया और परिवारों का जीवन घोर संकट में था, अतः उनके लिए अकेले-अकेले मरकर मोक्ष पा जाना भी इतना सहज नहीं रह गया था.

ऐसी विकट परिस्थिति में मुसलमानों ने उन्हें जीवन दान देने के लिए उनके सामने एक घृणित प्रस्ताव रख दिया तथा इस प्रस्ताव के साथ एक शर्त भी रख दी गई. उन्हें कहा गया कि यदि वे जीना चाहते हैं, तो मुसलमानों के घरों से उनकी विष्टा (टट्टी) उठाने का काम करना पड़ेगा. उनके परिवारजनों का काम भी साफ़-सफाई करना और मैला उठाना ही होगा तथा उन्हें अपने जीवन-यापन के लिए सदा-सदा के लिए केवल यही एक काम करने कि अनुमति होगी.

१९ दिसम्बर १४२१ के लेख के अनुसार, जाफर मक्की नामक विद्वान का कहना है कि ''हिन्दुओं के इस्लाम ग्रहण करने के मुखय कारण थे, मृत्यु का भय, परिवार की गुलामी, आर्थिक लोभ (जैसे-मुसलमान होने पर पारितोषिक, पेंशन और युद्ध में मिली लूट में भाग), हिन्दू धर्म में घोर अन्ध विश्वास और अन्त में प्रभावी धर्म प्रचार।"

इस प्रकार, समय के कुचक्र के कारण अनेक स्थानों पर हजारों हिंदू वीरों को परिवार सहित जिन्दा रहने के लिए ऐसी घोर अपमानजनक शर्त स्वीकार करनी पड़ी. मुसलमानों ने पूरे हिंदू समाज पर एक मनोवैज्ञानिक दबाव बनाने की रणनीति पर काम किया और उन्होंने वीर क्षत्रियों को ही अपना मुख्य निशाना बनाया. मुस्लिम आतंकवाद के पागल हाथी ने हिंदू धर्म के वीर योद्धाओं को परिवार सहित सब प्रकार से अपने पैरों तले रौंद डाला. सभी तरह की चल-अचल संपत्ति पहले ही छीनी जा चुकी थी. घर जला दिए गए थे.

परिवार की क्षत्रिय महिलाओं और कन्याओं पर असुरों की गिद्ध-दृष्टि लगी ही रहती थी. फिर भी, अपने कर्म सिद्धांत पर दृढ़ विश्वास रखने वाले उन आस्थावान हिन्दुओं ने अपने परिवार और शेष हिंदू समुदाय के दूरगामी हितों को ध्यान में रखते हुए अपनी नियति को स्वीकार किया और पल-पल अपमान के घूँट पीते हुए अपने राम पर अटूट भरोसा रखा. उपासना स्थलों को पहले ही तोड़ दिया गया था, इसलिए उन्होंने अपने हृदय में ही राम-कृष्ण की प्रतिमाएँ स्थापित कर लीं. परस्पर अभिवादन के लिए वेद सम्मत 'नमस्ते' को तिलांजली दे डाली और 'राम-राम' बोलने का प्रचार शुरू कर दिया. समय निकला तो कभी आपस में बैठकर सत्संग भी कर लिया. छुप-छुप कर अपने सभी उत्सव मनाते रहे और सनातन धर्म की पताका को अपने हृदयाकाश में ही लहराते रहे.

उनका सब कुछ खण्ड-खण्ड हो चुका था, परन्तु, उन्होंने धर्म के प्रति अपनी निष्ठा को लेशमात्र भी खंडित नहीं होने दिया. धर्म परिवर्तन न करने के दंड के रूप में मुसलमानों ने उन्हें परिवारसहित केवल मैला ढोने के एकमात्र काम की ही अनुमति दी थी, पीढ़ी-दर-पीढ़ी वही करते चले गए. कई पीढ़ियाँ बीत जाने पर अपने कर्म में ही ईश्वर का वास समझने वाले उन कर्मनिष्ठ हिन्दुओं के मनो में से नीच कर्म का अहसास करने वाली भावना ही खो गई. अब तो उन्हें अपने अपमान का भी बोध न रहा.

मुसलमानों की देखा-देखी हिन्दुओं को भी घर के भीतर ही शौच करने में अधिक सुविधा लगने लगी तथा अब वे मैला उठाने वाले लोग हिन्दुओं के घरों में से भी मैला उठाने लगे. इस प्रकार, किसी भले समय के राजे-रजवाड़े मुस्लिम आक्रमणों के कुचक्र में फंस जाने से अपने धर्म की रक्षा करने के कारण पूरे समाज के लिए ही मैला ढोने वाले अछूत और नीच बन गए.

उक्त शोधपरक लेख न तो किसी पंथ विशेष को अपमानित करने के लिए लिखा गया है और न ही दो पंथिक विचारधाराओं में तनाव खड़ा करने के लिए. केवल ऐतिहासिक भ्रांतियों को उजागर करने के लिए लिखे गये इस लेख में प्रमाण सहित घटनाओं की क्रमबद्धता प्रस्तुत की गयी है.

वर्ण और जाति में भारी अंतर है तथा यह लेख मूलतः छूआछूत के कलंक के उदगम को ढूँढने का एक प्रयास है.

मुसलमानों ने मैला ढोने वालों के प्रति अपने परम्परागत आचरण के कारण और उनके हिंदू होने पर उनके प्रति अपनी नफरत व्यक्त करने के कारण उन्हें अछूत माना तथा मुसलमान गोहत्या करते थे, इसलिए मुसलमानों से किसी भी रूप में संपर्क रखने वाले (भले ही उनका मैला ढोने वाले) लोगों को हिंदू समाज ने अछूत माना. इस प्रकार, दलित बन्धु दोनों ही समुदायों के बीच घृणा की चक्की में पिसते रहे.

इस लेख में कहीं भी हिंदू समाज को छूआछूत को बढ़ावा देने के आरोप से मुक्त नहीं किया गया है.

प्रमाण के रूप में कुछ गोत्र प्रस्तुत किये जा रहे हैं, जो समान रूप से क्षत्रियों में भी मिलते हैं और आज के अपने अनुसूचित बंधुओं में भी. genome के विद्वान् अपने परीक्षण से सहज ही यह प्रमाणित कर सकते हैं कि ये सब भाई एक ही वंशावली से जुड़े हुए हैं.

उदाहरण- चंदेल, चौहान, कटारिया, कश्यप, मालवण, नाहर, कुंगर, धालीवाल, माधवानी, मुदई, भाटी, सिसोदिया, दहिया, चोपड़ा, राठौर, सेंगर, टांक, तोमर आदि-आदि-आदि.

जरा सोचिये, हिंदू समाज पर इन कथित अछूत लोगों का कितना बड़ा ऋण है. यदि उस कठिन काल में ये लोग भी दूसरी परिणति वाले स्वार्थी हिन्दुओं कि तरह ही तब मुसलमान बन गए होते तो आज अपने देश की क्या स्थिति होती? और सोचिये, आज हिन्दुओं में जिस वर्ग को हम अनुसूचित जातियों के रूप में जानते हैं, उन आस्थावान हिन्दुओं की कितनी विशाल संख्या है, जो मुस्लिम दमन में से अपने राम को सुरक्षित निकालकर लाई है.

क्या अपने सनातन हिंदू धर्म की रक्षा में इनका पल-पल अपमानित होना कोई छोटा त्याग था? क्या इनका त्याग ऋषि दधिची के त्याग की श्रेणी में नहीं आता?

स्वामी विवेकानंद ने कहा है कि जब किसी एक हिंदू का मतान्तरण हो जाता है, तो न केवल एक हिंदू कम हो जाता है, बल्कि हिन्दुओं का एक शत्रु भी बढ़ जाता है.

लेखक डॉ. मनोज शर्मा

भारत में प्राचीन और मध्य युग तक घरों में शौचालय नहीं होते थे , सभी जंगल या खेत में शौच के लिए जाते थे, जब शौचालय ही नहीं थे तो उनको साफ़ करने के लिए सफाई कर्मचारी (जमादार) की भी आवश्यकता नहीं थी , मुस्लिम राजाओं के राज में अपहरण करके लाई गयी औरते अक्सर शौच के लिए बाहर जाने के बहाने भाग जाती थीं या खुदकशी कर लेती थीं . तो उनको महल से बाहर जाने से रोकने की खातिर अन्दर ही संडास बनाए जाने लगे ,

लेकिन फिर समस्या आयी कि इस गन्दगी कि सफाई कैसे हो . तो इसका हल ये निकाला गया कि लड़ाई में हारे हुए युद्ध वंदियों को पहले तो धर्मपरिवर्तन के लिए कहा जाता था और धर्म परिवर्तन के लिए न मानने वालों को गंदगी उठाने पर मजबूर किया जाता था , उन हालात में भी बहुतों ने गंदगी उठाना मंजूर किया लेकिन धर्म छोड़ना मंजूर नहीं किया . मुस्लिम राजाओं को खुश करने कि खातिर चापलूस (हिन्दू) लोगों ने उन धर्मनिष्ठ लोगों से दुरी बना ली , साथ ही उनको इस बात का भी डर था कि अगर इन सजा भोग रहे धर्मनिष्ठ लोगों से मेल रखेंगे तो शासक वर्ग नाराज होकर उनको भी प्रताड़ित कर सकता है .

कालान्तर में यही चीज़ जाति प्रथा और छुआछूत की बजह बन गयी . और इस छुआछूत की बजह से बहुत बड़ी आबादी को घटिया जीवन जीने को मजबूर होना पड़ा . ऐसे ही भारत में लकड़ी की खडाऊं पहनी जाती थी जूते पहनने का रिवाज नहीं था इस लिए चर्मकार भी नहीं थे .

लेख पढ़कर तो यह कहूँगा कि इसमें कोई शक नहीं कि आज जो शूद्र हैं वो वही हिन्दु हैं जो मुसलमानों के अत्याचार से बचने लिए शूद्र बने। इसका प्रमाण ये है कि शूद्र सूअर को पालते हैं।मुसलमान सूअर को घृणित मानते हैं इसलिए हिन्दू सूअर को लेकर अपने साथ लेकर समाज से अलग बस गए ताकि मुसलमान उन पर धर्म-परिवर्तन का दवाब ना बना सके।अब इस बात से मैं यह तो प्रमाणित नहीं कर सकता कि शूद्र मुसलमान से पहले अस्तित्व में थे ही नहीं।वैसे ज्यादा संभावना तो इसी बात कि दिखती है कि मुसलमान के बाद ही मैला ढोने,सूअर पालने जैसे काम करने वाले लोग अस्तित्व में आए।

इस्लामी शासन काल में षड्यंत्रिक TAX ..... और सनातन संस्कारों की हानि

2012-01-15T06:50:00.000-08:00

इस्लामी शासन काल में षड्यंत्रिक TAX ..... और सनातन संस्कारों की हानि

by Lovy Bhardwaj

इस्लामी आक्रमणों के 1200 वर्षों के इतिहास में धर्म की बहुत हानि हुई, सती प्रथा, बाल विवाह, जात पात, आदि जाने कितनी ही सामाजिक बुराइयां सनातन धर्म को छू गयीं, और काने कितनी ही विकृतियाँ सनातन धर्म को चोटिल करती रहीं l ऐसी ही कुछ बुराइयों के बारे में भारत वर्ष की इतिहास की पुस्तकों में पढ़ाया जाता है परन्तु उन्हें पढ़ कर लगता है की वो केवल उपरी ज्ञान हैं, और ज्यादातर बुराइयों को सनातन धर्म से जोड़ कर ही दिखा दिया जाता है, परन्तु ये नहीं बताया जाता की उन बुराइयों के असली कारण क्या थे, और किन कारणों से उन बुराइयों का उदय हुआ और विस्तार हुआ?

सनातन संस्कृति के शास्त्रों के अनुसार में मनुष्यों को 16 संस्कारों के साथ अपना जीवन व्यतीत करने का आदेश दिया गया है, जिनके नियम और उद्देश्य अलग अलग हैं l इस्लामी आक्रमणों से पहले तक संस्कार प्रथा अपने नियमो के अनुसार निरंतर आगे बढ़ रही थी, परन्तु इस्लामी आक्रमणों के बाद और सफलतम अंग्रेजी स्वप्न्कार Lord McCauley ने संस्कार पद्धतियों को सनातन संस्कृति से पृथक सा ही कर दिया l

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परन्तु सोचने वाली बात है की क्या इस्लामी मानसिकता के अनुसार हिन्दुओं पर धर्मांतरण के लिए दबाव बनाने हेतु ये दो ही कर (TAX) काफी थे... ये सोचना ही हास्यापद होगा l इस्लामी शासन कालों में समस्त 16 संस्कारों पर TAX लगाया जाता था, जिसको की नेहरु, प्रथम शिक्षा मंत्री मौलाना अबुल कलाम आज़ाद और अलीगढ मुस्लिम विश्वविद्यालय के इतिहासकारों ने भारतीय शिक्षा पद्धति की इतिहास की पुस्तकों में जगह नहीं दी l ऐसे और भी बहुत से विषय हैं जिन पर यह बहस की जा सकती है, परन्तु वो किसी और दिन करेंगे l

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धीरे धीरे समय ऐसा भी आया की कुछ लोग केवल आवश्यक संस्कारों को ही करवाने लगे, और कुछ लोग संस्कारों से पूर्णतया कट से गए l

सबसे पहले आता है गर्भाधान संस्कार .....

किसी सनातन धर्म की स्त्री द्वारा जब गर्भ धारण किया जाता था तो एक निश्चित TAX इलाके के मौलवी या इमाम के पास जमा किया जाता था और उसकी एक रसीद भी मिलती थी l यदि उस TAX को दिए बिना किसी भी सनातन धर्म के अनुसायी के घर में कोई सन्तान उत्पन्न होती थी तो उसे इस्लामी सैनिक उठा कर ले जाते थे और उसकी इस्लामी नियमो के अनुसार सुन्नत करके उसे मुसलमान बना दिया जाता था l

नामकरण संस्कार

नामकरण संस्कार का षड्यंत्र यदि देखा जाए तो सबसे महत्वपूर्ण है ...इस षड्यंत्र को समझने में

नामकरण संस्कार में जब किसी बच्चे का नाम रखा जाता था तो उन पर विभिन्न प्रकार के के TAX निर्धारित किये गए थे ...

उदाहरण के लिए .... कुंवर व्यापक सिंह ...

इसमें "कुंवर" शब्द एक सम्माननीय उपाधि को दर्शाता है, जो की किसी राजघराने से सम्बन्ध रखता हो,

उसके बाद "व्यापक" शब्द सनातन संस्कृति के शब्दकोश का एक ऐसा शब्द है जो जब तक चलन में रहेगा तब तक सनातन संस्कृति जीवित रहेगी l

उसके बाद "सिंह" शब्द आता है .... जो की एक वर्ण व्यवस्था या एक वंशावली का सूचक है l

कुंवर..... पर TAX 10000 रुपये

व्यापक ...पर TAX 1000 रुपये

सिंह ...... पर TAX 1000 रुपये

अब जो TAX चुकाने में सक्षम लोग थे वो अपने अपने बजट के अनुसार अपने बाचों के लिए शुभ नाम निकाल लेते थे l

समस्या वहां उत्पन्न हुई जिनके पास पैसे न हों....

अब आप सोचेंगे की ऐसे बच्चों का कोई नाम नहीं होता होगा .... ?

परन्तु ऐसा नही था ... ऐसे गरीब परिवारों के बच्चों के लिए भी नाम रखे जाने का प्रावधान था l

परन्तु ऐसे नाम उस इलाके के मौलवी या इमाम द्वारा मुफ्त में दिया जाता था और यह कडा नियम था की जो नाम इमाम या मौलवी देंगे वही रखा जायेगा .. अन्यथा दंड का प्रावधान भी होता था l

अब ज़रा सोचिये की किस प्रकार के नाम दिए जाते होंगे इलाके के मौलवी या इमाम द्वारा...

लल्लू राम,

झंडू राम,

कूड़े सिंह,

घासी राम,

घसीटा राम,

फांसी राम,

फुग्ग्न सिंह,

राम कटोरी,

लल्लू सिंह,

फुद्दू राम,

रोंदू सिंह,

रोंदू राम,

रोंदू मल,

खचेडू राम,

खचेडू मल,

लंगडा सिंह,

इस प्रकार के नाम इलाके के मौलवी और इमामो द्वारा मुफ्त में दिए जाते थे l

क्या आप ऐसे नाम अपने बच्चों के रख सकते हैं ... कभी ?? शायद नहीं ?

विवाह संस्कार के लिए इलाके के मौलवी से स्वीकृति लेनी पडती थी, बरात निकालने, ढोल नगाड़े बजाने पर भी TAX होता था, और बरात किस किस मार्ग से जाएगी यह भी मौलवी या इमाम ही तय करते थे l

और इस्लामिक केन्द्रों के सामने ढोल नगाड़े नहीं बजाये जायेंगे, वहां पर से सर झुका कर जाना पड़ेगा l

वर्तमान समय में असम और पश्चिम बंगाल के मुस्लिम बहुसंख्यक क्षेत्रों में तो यह आम बात है l

अंतिम संस्कार पर तो भारी TAX लगाया जाता था, जिसके कारण यह तक कहा जाता था कि यदि TAX देने का पैसा नहीं है तो इस्लाम स्वीकार करो और कब्रिस्तान में दफना दो l

वर्तमान समय में उत्तर प्रदेश के मुजफ्फरनगर, सहारनपुर, आजमगढ़, आदि क्षेत्रों में यह आम बात है l

केरल, बंगाल, असम के मुस्लिम बहुसंख्यक क्षेत्रों में खुल्लम खुल्ला यह फरमान सुनाया जाता है, जहां पर प्रशासन और पुलिस द्वारा कोई सहायता नहीं उपलब्ध करवाई जाती l

इस्लामिक शासन काल में सनातन गुरुकुल शिक्षा पद्धति को भी धीरे धीरे नष्ट किया जाने लगा, औरंगजेब के शासनकाल में तो यह खुल्लम खुल्ला फरमान सुनाया गया था कि ...

किस प्रकार हिन्दुओं को मुसलमान बनाना है ?

किस किस प्रकार की यातनाएं देनी हैं ? किस प्रकार औरतों का शारीरिक मान मर्दन करना है ?

किस प्रकार मन्दिरों को ध्वस्त करना है ?

किस प्रकार मूर्तियों का विध्वंस करना है ?

मूर्तियों को तोड़ कर उन पर मल मूत्र का त्याग करके उनको मन्दिर के नीचे ही दबा देना, खासकर मंदिरों की सीढियों के नीचे, और फिर उसी के ऊपर मस्जिद का निर्माण कर दिया जाए l

मन्दिरों के पुजारियों को कटक कर दिया जाए, यदि वे इस्लाम कबूल करें तो छोड़ दिया जाए l

जितने भी गुरुकुल हैं उनको ध्वस्त कर दिया जाए और आचार्यों को तत्काल प्रभाव से मौत के घाट उतार दिया जाए l

गौशालाओं को अपने नियन्त्रण में ले लिया जाए l

कई मन्दिरों को ध्वस्त करते हुए तो वहां पर गाय काटी जाती थी l

वर्तमान समय में औरंगजेब के खुद के हाथों से लिखे ऐसे हस्तलेख हैं ..जिन पर उसके दस्तखत भी हैं l

ऐसे अत्याचारों और दमन के कारण उपनयन जैसा अति महत्वपूर्ण संस्कार भी विलुप्ति कि कगार पर पहुँचने लगा l

धीरे धीरे संस्कारों का यह सिलसिला ख़त्म सा होता चला गया, वानप्रस्थ और सन्यास संस्कारों को तो लोग भूल ही गए क्योंकि उनका अर्थ ही नहीं ज्ञात हो पाया आने वाली कई पीढ़ियों को l

छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज द्वारा एक बार पंजाब क्षेत्र में Survey करवाया गया था जिसके अनुसार पंजाब के कई क्षेत्र ऐसे थे जहां पर लोग गायत्री महामंत्र भी भूल चुके थे, उन्हें उसका उच्चारण तो क्या इसके बारे में पता ही नहीं था l

धीरे धीरे पंजाब और अन्य क्षेत्रों में छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज द्वारा उध्वस्त मन्दिरों का निर्माण करवाया गया और कई जगहों पर आचार्यों को भेजा गया जिन्होंने धर्म प्रचार एवं प्रसार के कार्य किये l

एक महत्वपूर्ण बात सामने आती है ....

कृपया ध्यान से पढ़ें और समझें एक अनोखी कहानी जो भुला दी गयी SECULAR भारतीय इतिहासकारों द्वारा और नेहरु की kangres द्वारा

औरंगजेब की मृत्यु के 10 वर्ष के अंदर अंदर ही मुगलिया सल्तनत मिटटी में मिल चुकी थी, रंगीले शाह अपनी रंगीलियों के लिए प्रसिद्ध था और दिन प्रतिदिन मुगलिया सल्तनत कर्जों में डूब रही थी l रंगीले शाह को कर्ज देने में सबसे आगे जयपुर के महाराजा था l एक बार मौका पाकर जयपुर के महाराजा ने अपना कर्जा मांग लिया l रंगीले शाह ने बुरे समय पर जयपुर के महाराजा से सम्बन्ध खराब करना उचित न समझा, क्योंकि आगे के लिए कर्ज मिलना बंद हो सकता था जयपुर के महाराज से.. परन्तु रंगीले शाह ने जयपुर के महाराजा की रियासतों को बढ़ा कर बहुत ही ज्यादा विस्तृत कर दिया और कहा की जो नए क्षेत्र आपको दिए गए हैं आप वहां से अपना कर वसूलें जिससे की कर्ज उतर जाए l जयपुर के महाराज के प्रभाव क्षेत्र में अब गंगा किनारे ब्रिजघाट, आगरा, बिजनौर, सहारनपुर, पानीपत, सोनीपत आदि बहुत से क्षेत्र भी सम्मिलित हो गए l इन क्षेत्रों में संस्कारों के ऊपर लगने वाले TAX .. जजिया और महसूल आदि धार्मिक TAXES के कारण जनता त्राहि त्राहि कर रही थी, और जयपुर के महाराजा के प्रभाव क्षेत्र में आने के कारण सनातन धर्मी अपनी आशाएं लगा कर बैठे थे की अब यह पैशाचिक TAXES का सिलसिला बंद होगा l परन्तु जयपुर के महाराजा ने TAXES वापिस नहीं लिए l

मराठा साम्राज्य के पेशवा के राजदूत दीना नाथ शर्मा उन दिनों जयपुर में नियुक्त थे, उन्होंने भरतपुर के जाट नेता बदनसिंह की मदद की और जाटों की अपनी ही एक सेना बनवा डाली, जिनको पेशवा द्वारा मान्यता भी दिलवा दी गयी और 5000 की मनसबदारी भी दिलवा दी गयी l धीरे धीरे बदनसिंह ने अपना प्रभाव क्षेत्र बढ़ाया और दीना नाथ शर्मा के कहने पर समस्त जगहों से मुस्लिम TAXES से पाबंदी हटवाने लगे l जयपुर के महाराजा निसहाय हो गए क्योंकि पेशवा से सीधे टकराव उनके लिए सम्भव नहीं था l

इन्हीं दिनों ब्रिजघाट तक का क्षेत्र जाटों द्वारा मुक्त करवा लिया गया ..जिसका नाम रखा गया गढ़मुक्तेश्वर

बदन सिंह और राजा सूरजमल ने बहुत से क्षेत्रों पर अपना प्रभाव स्थापित किया और मुस्लिम अत्याचारों से मुक्ति दिलवाने का कार्य किया l

फिर भी ऐसी समस्याएं यदा कडा सामने आ ही जाती थीं, की कई कई जगहों पर मुस्लिम लोग हिन्दुओं को घेरकर उनसे TAX लेते थे या फिर संस्कारों के कार्यों में विघ्न पैदा करते थे l इस समस्या से निपटने के लिए आगे चल कर बदनसिंह के बाद राजा सूरजमल ने गंगा-महायज्ञ का आयोजन किया, जिसमे गंगोत्री से 11000 कलश मंगवाए गए गंगा जल के और उन्हें भरतपुर के पास ही सुजान गंगा के नाम से स्थापित करवाया और सभी देवी देवताओं को स्थापित करवाया गया और बहुत से मन्दिरों का निर्माण करवाया गया l

सुजान गंगा पर आने वाले कई वर्षों तक संस्कारों के कार्य होते रहे l 1947 के बाद नेहरु और SECULAR जमात ने मिल कर सुजान गंगा का अस्तित्व समाप्त कर दिया, उसमे आसपास के सारे गंदे नाले मिलवा दिए और आसपास की फेक्टरियों का गंदा पानी आदि उसमे गिरवा दिया l आसपास के लोग मल-मूत्र त्याग करने लगे l इसी वर्ष हुए एक सर्वे के अनुसार सुजान गंगा के चारों और 650 से ज्यादा लोगों द्वारा प्रतिदिन मल-मूत्र त्याग किया जाता है l

आप सबसे विनम्र अनुरोश है की अपने इतिहास को जानें, जो की आवश्यक है की अपने पूर्वजों के इतिहास जो जानें और समझने का प्रयास करें.... उनके द्वारा स्थापित किये गए सिद्धांतों को जीवित रखें l

जिस सनातन संस्कृति को जीवित रखने के लिए और अखंड भारत की सीमाओं की सीमाओं की रक्षा हेतु हमारे असंख्य पूर्वजों ने अपने शौर्य और पराक्रम से अनेकों बार अपने प्राणों तक की आहुति दी गयी हो, उसे हम किस प्रकार आसानी से भुलाते जा रहे हैं l

सीमाएं उसी राष्ट्र की विकसित और सुरक्षित रहेंगी ..... जो सदैव संघर्षरत रहेंगे l

जो लड़ना ही भूल जाएँ वो न स्वयं सुरक्षित रहेंगे न ही अपने राष्ट्र को सुरक्षित बना पाएंगे l

Sarasawthy civilisation

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What is Hinduism

2011-11-26T12:11:00.001-08:00

Mystery of Mt Toba (Sundaland) explained through Puranas!

2011-11-26T12:04:00.001-08:00

Mystery of Mt Toba (Sundaland) explained through Puranas!

The Hindu wisdom is always encapsulated so that it is preserved against mutilation and also makes itself revealed only to the seeker. This wisdom is three-fold, physical, divine and symbolic. There is a verse in Aithareya Upanishad that says that Devas want to be invisible, secretive, mysterious, indirect, hidden and so on. This is told in a single word "parOkshENa" ("parOksha priya iva hi dEvaa:" Ai Upa - 1-3 -14).

That is why we find most of the stories of Puranas and of deities indiscernible or even absurd at normal reading, metaphysical on deeper contemplation but revealing geological stories of man and creation when seen in the light of revelations of diverse fields of modern science. In this post I am bringing out the inner secret of Tripura Samhara by Lord Shiva that is now revealed in the findings of what is called "Sundaland".

Sundaland is a name given to a cluster of islands in South eats Asia. It consists of Malay peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and other surrounding areas. The recent developments in sea level research done by Glenn Milne and Graham Hancock have shown that these islands were not islands but were connected as a huge land mass some 22,000 years ago.

The sea level was lower than now by approximately 150 meters thereby offering a good expanse of land for mankind to thrive. This region is a centre of attraction for researchers because this is the "closest area" for early man from east Africa who moved out eastward around one lakh years ago.

The light shades around the continents show the extent of exposed landmass at an earlier time when sea level was low due to Ice Age. The red circle shows the 'Sundaland' which now looks fractured into islands. The migration of man as revealed in genetic studies show that mankind stayed on for thousands of years somewhere in the Indian Ocean. Currently Indian Ocean, south off India shows no sign of landmass. But with the discovery of Sundaland, there is increased interest in finding out whether it offered habitation for early man.

Another important discovery is that an ancient volcano located in Sundaland erupted about 73,000 years ago causing a wide spread devastation of mankind and other life.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123142739.htm

The red star on the left side of Sundaland was the location of Mt Toba, a Super Volcano that erupted then.
The scale of devastation was such that the volcanic ash spread as far as the Arabian sea covering most parts of South India by a few meters.

The red spot in the above picture is the location of Mt Toba and the blue spots are the regions where ash deposits have been identified. Due to the wind direction at the time of eruption, the ash had spread towards west of Indonesia.

Recent excavations in Jwalapuram, in Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh showed that this village which had an human dwelling at that time (73,000 years ago) was covered with the ash of Mt Toba.

Genetic studies reveal that almost all of mankind vanished then but for a small group from which the current population of the globe has come up. These 2 revelations - a massive burst of a volcano and a small and specific cluster of mankind surviving that catastrophe are remarkably revealed in the Puranic narration of Tripura Samhara.

Before telling about that, I want to describe a few words and concepts that occur in the Puranas.

The Devas were beings who were inclined on divine path and lived in the region close to the north pole.
The Asuras were the beings who though good in many ways were harsh and materialistic. They lived in the region close to the South pole. They were huge in size too. Though this description looks out of place in today's world, we must know that the world was not the same in the past as it is now. The tilt of the earth keeps varying from 22 degrees to 25 degrees. This, in addition to other reasons had resulted in extreme conditions near polar region alternating between the north and the south.This is explained as Milankovitch cycle which can be read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

Currently the earth is tilted at 23.44 degrees and is decreasing. As a result we are now in the middle of two Ice ages. When the tilt had gone to the extreme limit, either the North or the South-end would become suitable to support life. This shows that the Puranic narration on the location of Devas and Asuras is a practical one.

The gigantic size of the Asuras is also not a figment of imagination. There is something about gigantism in the South Pole, the reasons for which Science has not yet found out. Recently many marine life forms of gigantic size have been found out in the Antartic ocean.

A gigantic worm on the floor of Antartica ocean.

The other terms that I want to introduce to the readers are Meru and Naga or snake.

The Meru or the peak of Meru mountain is the Northern pole. The South pole offers a basis or substratum which was borne by the Giant Tortoise(Vishnu as Kurma). The constant rotation of the axis of Meru causing day and night and changing the climate in the north and south is described as the churning done by Devas and Asuras. Samudra Manthan, as it is called is thus a geological incident written as a story in the Puranas.

The Meru is tied with the snake, Vasuki which is used for churning. It is actually a personification of the mantle under the crust of the earth. As the earth keeps rotating continuously for eons, the underlying mantle is churned continuously. It erupts wherever there is a weak spot on the crust.Poisonous gases, molten minerals etc come out of the churning. The poisonous gases were de-harmed because Puranas say they are "drunk by Shiva, the Neela kanta" . The molten minerals get solidified in course of time and become valuable metals and gems. This is personified as"Lakshmi, the Goddess of wealth". But for this constant churning, we would not be getting wealth (lakshmi).

A scene of Samudra Manthan seen at the floor of Atlantic ocean.

With this background information on some basic concepts of the Puranas, we will proceed with Tripura Samhara.

Tripura means three sides or anything that is three. One can explain it at any level - physical, philosophical etc.
But after coming to know of the Sunda land and the eruption of Mt Toba, the story of Tripura Samhara shows a geological event.The names associated with Tripura samhara bear unique resemblance to the way a Super Volcano was maturing to erupt.

There was a Tarakasura who was killed by Karthikeya.
Tara means star.
Karthikeya is derived from a meaning 'fire' or 'cut'.
A star or star like glowing material was absorbed by Fire (Agni) is the import of this.

After the death of Tarakasura, his three sons,
Tarakaksha, Vidyunmali and Makalaksha did penanceto become terrific fortresses.
Tarakaksha means star-eyed, Vidyunmali means one wreathed in lightening and Kamalaksha means lotus eyed (red in colour).
They formed 3 cities which were continuously rotating.
The cities were made of iron at the bottom, silver above that and gold on top.
They were fierce and kept rotating thereby tormenting the people.
They were called the Tripura Asuras.

This description of the Tripura asuras (3 sided asuras) tallies with that of an active volcano.
The initial Volcano, Tarakasura had spewed fire (killed by Karthikeya).
But that was not the end of the Volcano.
It kept being active by being star like sparks (Tarakaksha), lightening (Vidyunmali) and red in color (kamalaksha).

The magma underneath had been so volatile that it is described as though the 3 layers of molten minerals of iron, silver and gold were rotating all the time.

The Devas and Danavas were present in that location, so say the Puranas
We know Asuras, but who are these Danavas?
Generally those in the southern hemisphere were called as Asuras. But there were other people also. One of them were called as Danavas. This is another concept of Puranas which is now proven by genetics.
There was an ancient progenitor of man (Y-chromosome) and quite a few female progenitors (mt DNA). The current population of the earth have come from them.

In Puranic narration, Sage Kashyapa will appear wherever there is a need for creation of people.
Perhaps he signifies the ancient Y- chromosome.
If someone says that he does not know his Gotra, elders will ask them to adopt Kashyapa Gotra because all Gotras (Y- chromosomes?) have come from Kashyapa.
He was in the Deep South before 70,000 years ago,
near Kashmir around 40,000 ago and
after that his name comes associated with the region that has the Caspian sea.
Kashmir got its name from Kashyapa only.

This sage in the beginning of populating the world married 13 daughters of the Prajapathi (Father of people).
In ordinary understanding, people used to think lowly about this sage and other sages who married many women.
But all those stories are symbolic.
One of his wives was called as Danu.
The children born to her were called as Danavas!
The lineage from them also were called as Danavas.
This shows that Danavas are coming in a specific maternal-lineage
They are asuric in nature to some extent.

Popular Danavas are

Hiranya Kasipu,

his son Prahladha,

Maha Bali,

his son Banasura,

Puloma (father in law of Indra and father of Indrani)

Vrishaparva and

Maya, the architect.

The Danavas including Maya was present at the time Tripura was fuming!
The torment caused by Tripura was unbearable that the Devas asked Shiva to kill him.
He did so by using a single arrow.
The killing of Tripura by Shiva was described as Tripura samhara.
The exact process of killing is described in the Sangam Tamil text called Paripadal
which is an exact description of the destruction caused by a Volcano.

Paripadal - 5 says

"naaga naaNaa malai villaaka

moovagai, aareyil Orazal ambin muLiya"

(நாக நாணா மலை வில்லாக

மூவகை ஆரெயில் ஓரழல் அம்பின் முளிய)

Naaga - snake
naaNaa - as the string (of the bow)
malai - mountain
villaaka - as the bow
moovakai - 3 types
aareyil - walls (fortresses)
Orazal - a single streak of fire
ambin muLiya - at the end of an arrow - killed

That is,
Shiva killed Tripura with the mountain as the arrow and the snakes (mantle / magma) as the string, he blew the 3 fortresses of iron, silver and gold (molten material) by shooting a single arrow which has fire at its end.
The snakes - as we told before - personify the magma trying to come out.

This describes the sudden and powerful eruption of fire and mantle from inside the mountain (volcano) which resulted in the complete collapse of the volcano.

To depict it pictorially, here is the image of how a volcano looks when it bursts.

The same picture with the personification of a volcanic eruption with theBow, String and Arrow that Puranas describe in Tripura Samhara is given below.

This Bow -string -arrow symbolism will look like a bursting volcano like this:

Further description of the narration of the puranas say that as a result of that destruction, there was ash everywhere. The ash was pale gray in colour. Shiva was completely drenched in that ash. He took up a handful of ash and smeared it on his forehead (the custom of wearing sacred ash started then). Not only that he started dancing! That dance was called as Tripura Samhara Dandava (the dance of destruction of Tripura)

This pose of Tripura samhara also fits in the description of the burst of a Volcano.
The leg has been raised straight upwards showing the path of the arrow from inside the earth
and shot upwards through the mouth of the volcano.

This dance of Shiva is described in the Tamil text, Silappadhikaram as the first among the 11 dance forms. This is called in Tamil as "Pandarangam".

Pandaram means white.

Shiva was smeared in white ash after the destruction of the Tripura and then he started dancing on the ashes. That was the Pandarangam dance. This is depicted as Tripura smahara dance of Nataraja!

This description from Tamil texts clearly show that Tripiura samhara was indeed a Volcanic burst.
Shiva is associated with destruction.
The way the destruction had happened has been told as a symbolic story.
The Devas were happy about the destruction as the asuras were devastated.
But Maya Danava was present at that time!
He was a Shiva worshiper.
Seeing him trapped in the fire that ensued, Shiva saved him.
This shows the Danavas also escaped and continued their life.

Now let us look at corresponding clues to the location around Mt Toba.
(Toba sounds like a corrupt form of Tripura. Locals in that area might give us some leads on how that name Toba was pronounced in olden days)

When Mt Toba erupted, the land looked like above. The red mark denotes the location of Mt Toba.

In the picture above we see so many locations of Sumatra having the name 'Pulau' which sounds similar to Puloma, the Danava who once inhabited this location according to the Puranas.
From where these names starting with Pulau come?

Now take a look at this picture.

There is a place called Tarakan in this region (Kalimanthan)
The red star shows the area of Tarakan and the inserted picture shows Toba and Tarakan.
Tarakan has underground oil fields, thereby substantiating our analysis that this location has for long experienced hot beds underneath.
In the story of Tripura samhara, we see Taraka or Tarakasura as the father who was destroyed by Karthikeya.
The 3 Tripura asuras were the sons of Tarakasura.
In the picture above, there is a Taraka and also on the same line Mt Toba.
This seems to be the Father and the sons according to Puranic symbolism.
The location of Tarakan now must be researched to know whether it was the location a volcano that burst in much older times.

Tarakan is in a place called Kalimanthan.
Look at the name Kalimanthan, it means Kali's rotations or agitated dance.
In Tripura dandava, Kali, the better half of Shiva also joined the dance.

Look at this picture.

We can see the Puranic characters Maya, Indra etc connected with Tripura samhara.
There are many places in this region having Maya name attested somehow.
There is Maya Karimatha and a Mayo island!
There is Indramayu!
Bali island reminds of Bali danava.
This location had been occupied by danavas in Tripura samhara times.

In addition there is a Madura and Yamadena.

This would raise doubts whether this region was originally the
Tamil region of old Pandyas, the Then- Madurai.
No I dont think so.
Then-Madurai was lost due to sea-floods.
Shiva was the protector deity and a king of that land once.
But the Sundaland region suffered the wrath of Shiva and it bore the brunt of fire not water.

This makes us think that the Madurese came to occupy this part
after their Then-Madurai was devastated by a flood.
According to Sangam Tamil texts,
the Pandyan king along with the survivors landed in the then extended region of South India
in a place called Kapatapuram.
It is probable that many of his subjects have either died or managed to survive in nearby islands.
One such group would have landed in Sumatra and started new life.
It is always a habit with people to call their new locations with their old place- names.

The Madurese carry resemblance to Tamil life described in Tamil texts,
such as making salt as their profession (called as Umanar in sangam text)

and conducting bull races!!

Close to this place is a place called Yamadena, a word resembling the Vedic concept of Yama , the lord of death. The people here have a old stone-boat in which they do ancestor worship.

The broken stone -boat at Yamadena.

It looks that the people who escaped a great flood in a boat had reached this island.
The boat stood rock-strong that they escaped,
while others of their clan in other boats had drowned.
The people had done obeisances in their memory in a boat made of stone.

These 2 places, Madura and Yamadena seem to come from a people of later times
who escaped a flood.
Such a flood devastated Then Madurai about 7000 years ago.
But the rest of Sundaland bear the imprint of Tarakasura
as a Super volcano which caused havoc to the population.

The people who had escaped the havoc have managed to live in other areas nearby.
Though Indian Ocean seems to be devoid of land to support people,
it did have good many locations which were mostly top of the mountains
of 90 east ridge and the other long range on south of Arabian sea.
There were scattered regions where people could have stayed.

The Mascarene region was a landmass as huge as Tamilnadu that was above sea water some 7000 years ago.

The memory of Mt Toba was carried on for 1000s of years
which was personified as the destruction caused by Lord Shiva.
In my opinion, the people had started recognizing the stars of the sky and watching the patterns and relating them to events abour 70,000 years ago.
The name Tarakasura, though could have been coined later, was coined so to show that the knowledge of stars started at the time of Tripura (Mt Toba)
The Tripura samhara was 'predicted' to happen on the day when Moon comes in conjunction with the star Pushya.

The study of stars must have started then and was gradually developed.
By the time people overcame the impact of the Volcano and started new life,
sages would have come into existence through contemplation and deep thought on sun and stars.
The period of Daksha comes later and he is identified as having 27 stars as daughters.
So that is the period of the actual birth of astrology.
The oldest name for astrology is 'Nakshatra darsana' (seeing the stars or the philosophy of stars)
and not Jyothisha.
The Hindu astrology is based on star positions and the position of planets in the stars.
There is a puranaic narration of Daksha having his head replaced with the head of a ram.
That symbolizes the birth of the knowledge of the zodiac.
All these go far backwards in time, perhaps 40,000 years before present.

The contemplation on Nature by the people of that era resulted in the birth of Vedic Thought and the formulation of symbolisms for natural events such as Toba eruption.
The Sundaland existed then and people had moved back to occupy them.
They also carried their symbolisms and named the places as Pualu, Mayo, Taraka and so on.

Daksha's people suffered the wrath of Shiva (destruction) some time later in the form of a devastating fire. That was another period in the past which we will discuss in another post.

courtesy : http://jayasreesaranathan.blogspot.com/2011/11/sundaland-was-location-of-tripura.html

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-1)

2011-11-21T07:15:00.000-08:00

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-1): Shah Jahan was a womanizer and a opium addict. The best thing he did in life wa renovation. He didnt have the brains or the intelligence...

Shah Jahan was a womanizer and a opium addict. The best thing he did in life wa renovation. He didnt have the brains or the intelligence to build something on the scale of the Taj. The Taj was a hindu temple dedicated to Shiva.Shah Jahan was good at renovation but not that good because it took him 20 years to renovate the temple.In short Shah Jahan was a epic failure and has nothing to his credit. To keep this a secret he maimed all the laborers who were involved in this renovation or killed them.

This Naqqar Khana alias Music House in the Taj Mahal garden is an incongruity if the Taj Mahal were an Islamic tomb. Close by on the right is the building which Muslims claim to be a mosque. The proximity of a mosque to the Music House is incongruous with Muslim tradition. In India, Muslims have a tradition of pelting stones on Hindu music processions passing over a mosque. Moreover a mausoleum needs silence. A dead person's repose is never to be disturbed. Who would then provide a band house for a dead Mumtaz? Contrarily Hindu temples and palaces have a music house because morning and evening Hindu chores begin to the sweet strains of sacred music.

Such are the rooms on the 1st floor of the marble structure of the Taj Mahal. The two staircases leading to this upper floor are kept locked and barred since Shahjahan's time. The floor and the marble walls of such upper floor rooms can be seen in the picture to have been stripped of its marble panels. Shahjahan used that uprooted marble from the upper floor for constructing graves and engraving the Koran because he did not know where from to procure marble matching the splendour of the rest of the Taj Mahal. He was also so stingy as not to want to spend much even on converting a robbed Hindu temple into an Islamic mausoleum.

Such are the magnificent marble-paved, shining, cool, white bright rooms of the Taj Mahal temple palace's marble ground floor. Even the lower third portion of the walls is covered with magnificent marble mosaic. The doorway at the left looks suspiciously closed with a stone slab. One can perambulate through these rooms around the central octagonal sanctorum, now occupied by Mumtaz's fake grave. The aperture, seen through of the central door, enabled perambulating devotees to keep their eyes fixed on the Shiva Linga in the central chamber. Hindu Shiva Lingas are consecrated in two chambers, one above the other. Therefore, Shahjahan had to raise two graves in the name of Mumtaz--one in the marble basement and the other on the ground floor to desecrate and hide both the Shiva emblems from public view. [The famous Shiva temple in Ujjain also has an underground chamber for one of its Shiva-lingams.]

The most evident of such structures is Taj Mahal--a structure supposedly devoted to carnal love by the "great" mughal king Shah Jahan to his favorite wife Mumtaz Mahal. Please keep in my mind that this is the same Shah Jahan who had a harem of 5,000 women and the same Shah Jahan who had a incestuous relationship with his daughter justifying it by saying, 'a gardener has every right to taste the fruit he has planted'! Is such a person even capable of imagining such a wondrous structure as the Taj Mahal let alone be the architect of it?

The answer is no. It cannot be. And it isn't as has been proven. The Taj Mahal is as much an Islamic structure, as is mathematics a Muslim discovery! The famous historian Shri P.N. Oak has proven that Taj Mahal is actually Tejo Mahalaya-- a shiv temple-palace. His work was published in 1965 in the book, Taj Mahal - The True Story. However, we have not heard much about it because it was banned by the corrupt and power crazed Congress government of Bharat who did not want to alienate their precious vote bank--the Muslims.

After reading Shri Oak's work, which provides more than adequate evidence to prove that Taj Mahal is indeed Tejo Mahalaya, one has to wonder if the government of Bharat has been full of traitors for the past 50 years! Because to ban such a book which states only the truth is surely a crime against our great nation of Bharat.

The most valuable evidence of all that Tejo Mahalaya is not an Islamic building is in the Badshahnama, which contains the history of the first twenty years of Shah Jahan's reign. The writer Abdul Hamid has stated that Taj Mahal is a temple-palace taken from Jaipur's Maharaja Jaisigh and the building was known as Raja Mansingh's palace. This by itself is enough proof to state that Tejo Mahalaya is a Hindu structure captured, plundered and converted to a mausoleum by Shah Jahan and his henchmen. But I have taken the liberty to provide you with 109 other proofs and logical points, which tell us that the structure known as the Taj Mahal is actually Tejo Mahalaya.

There is a similar story behind Every Islamic structure in Bharat. They are all converted Hindu structures. As I mentioned above, hundreds of thousands of temples in Bharat have been destroyed by the barbaric Muslim invaders and I shall dedicate several articles to these destroyed temples. However, the scope of this article is to prove to you beyond the shadow of any doubt that Taj Mahal is Tejo Mahalaya and should be recognized as such! Not as a monument to the dead Mumtaz Mahal--an insignificant sex object in the incestuous Shah Jahan's harem of 5,000.

Another very important proof that Taj Mahal is a Hindu structure is shown by figure 1 below. It depicts Aurangzeb's letter to Shah Jahan in Persian in which he has unintentionally revealed the true identity of the Taj Mahal as a Hindu Temple-Palace. Refer to proofs 20 and 66 stated below.

Aurangzeb's letter to his father Shah Jahan written in

Persian. (Source: Taj Mahal - The True Story, pg. 275)

Take the time to read the proofs stated below and know to what extent we have been lied to by our own leaders. These proofs have been provided by the help of Shri P.N. Oak.

For more information you can order the book, Taj Mahal - The True Story authored by Shri P.N. Oak. The ISBN number of the book is ISBN 0-9611614-4-2. The book is available through A. Ghosh (Publisher), 5720 W. Little York, # 216, Houston, Texas 77091.

(to be continued....)

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IN THE HON’BLE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD.

Civil Misc. Application No. 36818 of 2004

(Under Section 151 CPC)

Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. . 36818 of 2004

(Under Article 226 of constitution of India)

(District – Agra)

1. Institute of Rewriting Indian History Through its Founder President, P. N. Oak.

S/O Late Shri Nagesh Krishna Oak, R/O - Plot No. 10, Goodwill Society,

Aundh, Pune – 411007

2. P. N. Oak. S/O Late Shri Nagesh Krishna Oak, R/O - Plot No. 10, Goodwill

Society, Aundh, Pune - 411007 ,Founder President, Institute of Rewriting

Indian History, Aundh, Pune – 4110071-------------Petitioner

VERSUS

1. Union of India through Secretary,

Human Resources and Development (HRD),

Government of India, New Delhi.

2. Secretary, Tourism and Archeological Department, Govt. of India,

New Delhi

3. Director General,

Archaeological Survey of India,

Government of India, Janapath, New Delhi.---------Respondents

To,

The Hon’ble the Chief Justice and his Lordships other companion Judges of the aforesaid Court.

The humble writ petition of the abovenamed petitioner MOST RESPECTFULLY SHOWETH AS UNDER;

1. That the full facts and circumstance of the case are given in accompanied writ petition, it is most respectively prayed that an ad-interiem-mandamus by appointing a facts finding committee for exposing the falsehood of the Arceaological department regarding the historical blunder committed by them in respect of their purported claim set-up in declaring Taj-Mahal, Red- fort Agra, Fatahpur –Sikiri and other ancient Hindu buildings/ monuments as Muslim monuments and truth may be disclosed to the public/citizens and students in subject of history regarding their true authorship prior to Mughal period in furtherance of their fundamental rights conferred to the Citizens under Article 19 (1) (a), 25 and 26 read with49 and 51-A(f) (h) of Constitution of India and Freedom Of Information Act, 2002.

2. That it is further prayed that an ad-interim-Mandamus directing the respondent authorities after due Scientific investigation and facts finding inquiry report, the respondents in particular the Archaeological Survey of India may Declare and Notify in terms of the true history, as the Taj Mahal was not built by Shahajahan and thereby directing the Archaeological Survey of India to remove the notices displayed by them in the Taj Mahal premises crediting Shahjahan as its creator and to futher desist from writing / publishing / proclaiming / propagating and teaching about Shahjahan being the author of Taj Mahal and stop and discontinue the free entry in Taj Mahal premises on Fridays in the week.

29 September 2011 23:09

yogesh saxena said...

3. That it is further prayed that an ad-interim mandamus directing the respondent authorities in particular Archaeological Survey of India 1)-to open the locks of upper and lower portions of the 4 storeyed red stone building of Taj Mahal having numbers of rooms, 2)-to remove all bricked up walls build later blocking such rooms therein, 3)-to investigate scientifically and certify that which of those or both cenotaphs are fake,4)-to look for a subterrance storey below the river bank ground level, 5)-to look into after removing the room-entrance directly beneath the basement cenotaph-chamber.6)- by removing the brick and lime barricade flocking the doorway, 7)-to look for important historical evidence such as idols and inscriptions hidden inside there by the Shahjahan’s orders as truth may not make us rich but the same will make us free from superstitions and false propoganda.

4. That it is further prayed that an ad-interim-mandamus may further be issued declaring the provisions of The Ancient And Historical Monuments And Archaeological Sites And Remains (Declaration Of National Importance) Act, 1951 to the extend of declaring the ancient and historical monuments and other and Archaeological Sites namely Taj Mahal. Fatehpur-sikiri, Agra Red Ford , Ethmadualla and other Monuments as built by Mugal invaders allegedly on the basis of report submitted by Then Governor General, Lord Auckland, and young lieutenant Alexander Cunningham conceived indigenous scheme of “Divide and Rule” and thereby misusing the archaeological studies, be declared as ultravires to Article 19 (1) (a), 25,26 49 And 51-A (f) (h)constitution of India and this Hon’ble Court may futher declare the provision of Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Declaration of National Importance) Act, 1951 (71 of 1951), The Ancient Monuments And Archaeological Sites And Remains Act, 1958 of declaring these ancient building/ monuments preserved with such false graeyards identity with out any scientific inquiry/ investigation as purported Mugal monuments / graveyards as unconstitutional and void.

29 September 2011 23:10

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-2)

2011-11-21T07:12:00.000-08:00

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-2): THE PROOFS:- Name 1.The term Taj Mahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle ...

1.The term Taj Mahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle even in Aurangzeb's time. The attempt to explain it away as Taj-i-mahal is therefore, ridiculous.

2.The ending "Mahal" is never Muslim because in none of the Muslim countries around the world from Afghanistan to Algeria is there a building known as "Mahal".

3.The unusual explanation of the term Taj Mahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal, who is buried in it, is illogical in at least two respects viz., firstly her name was never Mumtaj Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani and secondly one cannot omit the first three letters "Mum" from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name of the building.

4.Since the lady's name was Mumtaz (ending with 'Z') the name of the building derived from her should have been Taz Mahal, if at all, and not Taj (spelled with a 'J').

5.Several European visitors of Shah Jahan's time allude to the building, as Taj-e-Mahal is almost the correct tradition, age old Sanskrit name Tej-o-Mahalaya, signifying a Shiva temple. Contrarily Shah Jahan and Aurangzeb scrupulously avoid using the Sanskrit term and call it just a holy grave.

6.The tomb should be understood to signify Not A Building but only the grave or cenotaph inside it. This would help people to realize that all dead Muslim courtiers and royalty including Humayun, Akbar, Mumtaz, Etmad-ud-Daula and Safdarjang have been buried in capture Hindu mansions and temples.

7. Moreover, if the Taj is believed to be a burial place, how can the term Mahal, i.e., mansion apply to it?

8.Since the term Taj Mahal does not occur in mogul courts it is absurd to search for any mogul explanation for it. Both its components namely, 'Taj' and' Mahal' are of Sanskrit origin.

Temple Tradition

9.The term Taj Mahal is a corrupt form of the Sanskrit term TejoMahalay signifying a Shiva Temple. Agreshwar Mahadev i.e., The Lord of Agra was consecrated in it.

10.The tradition of removing the shoes before climbing the marble platform originates from pre Shah Jahan times when the Taj was a Shiva Temple. Had the Taj originated as a tomb, shoes need not have to be removed because shoes are a necessity in a cemetery.

11.Visitors may notice that the base slab of the cenotaph is the marble basement in plain white while its superstructure and the other three cenotaphs on the two floors are covered with inlaid creeper designs. This indicates that the marble pedestal of the Shiva idol is still in place and Mumtaz's cenotaphs are fake.

12.The pitchers carved inside the upper border of the marble lattice plus those mounted on it number 108-a number sacred in Hindu Temple tradition.

13.There are persons who are connected with the repair and the maintenance of the Taj who have seen the ancient sacred Shiva Linga and other idols sealed in the thick walls and in chambers in the secret, sealed red stone stories below the marble basement. The Archaeological Survey of India is keeping discretely, politely and diplomatically silent about it to the point of dereliction of its own duty to probe into hidden historical evidence.

14.In India there are 12 Jyotirlingas i.e., the outstanding Shiva Temples. The Tejomahalaya alias The Taj Mahal appears to be one of them known as Nagnatheshwar since its parapet is girdled with Naga, i.e., Cobra figures. Ever since Shah Jahan's capture of it the sacred temple has lost its Hindudom.

15.The famous Hindu treatise on architecture titled Vishwakarma Vastushastra mentions the Tej-Linga amongst the Shivalingas i.e., the stone emblems of Lord Shiva, the Hindu deity. Such a Tej Linga was consecrated in the Taj Mahal, hence the term Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya.

16.Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient center of Shiva worship. Its orthodox residents have through ages continued the tradition of worshipping at five Shiva shrines before taking the last meal every night especially during the month of Shravan. During the last few centuries the residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent Shiva temples viz., Balkeshwar, Prithvinath, Manakameshwar and Rajarajeshwar. They had lost track of the fifth Shiva deity, which their forefathers worshipped. Apparently the fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev Nagnatheshwar i.e., The Lord Great God of Agra, The Deity of the King of Cobras, consecrated in the Tejomahalay alias Taj Mahal.

17.The people who dominate the Agra region are Jats. Their name of Shiva is Tejaji. The Jat special issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28,1971) mentions that the Jats have the Teja Mandirs i.e., Teja Temples. This is because Teja-Linga is among the several names of the Shiva Lingas. From this it is apparent that the Taj-Mahal is Tejo-Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.

Documentary Evidence

18.Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol 1) that a grand mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome (Imaarat-a-Alishan wa Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and the building was known as Raja Mansingh's palace.

19. The plaque put the archeology department outside the Taj Mahal describes the edifice as a mausoleum built by Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, over 22 years from 1631 to 1653 That plaque is a specimen of historical bungling. Firstly, the plaque sites no authority for its claim. Secondly the lady's name was Mumtaz-ulZamani and not Mumtazmahal. Thirdly, the period of 22 years is taken from some mumbo jumbo noting by an unreliable French visitor Tavernier, to the exclusion of all Muslim versions, which is an absurdity.

20. Prince Aurangzeb's letter (Refer to Figure 1 above) to his father, emperor Shah Jahan, is recorded in at least three chronicles titled Aadaab-e-Alamgiri, Yadgarnama, and the Muruqqa-i-Akbarabadi (edited by Said Ahmed, Agra, 1931, page 43, footnote 2). In that letter Aurangzeb records in 1652 A.D itself that the several buildings in the fancied burial place of Mumtaz were seven storeyed and were so old that they were all leaking, while the dome had developed a crack on the northern side. Aurangzeb, therefore, ordered immediate repairs to the buildings at his own expense while recommending to the emperor that more elaborate repairs be carried out later. This is the proof that during Shah Jahan's reign itself that the Taj complex was so old as to need immediate repairs.

21. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur retains in his secret personal KapadDwara collection two orders from Shah Jahan dated Dec 18, 1633 (bearing modern nos. R.176 and 177) requestioning the Taj building complex. That was so blatant a usurpation that the then ruler of Jaipur was ashamed to make the document public.

22. The Rajasthan State archives at Bikaner preserve three other firmans addressed by Shah Jahan to the Jaipur's ruler Jaisingh ordering the latter to supply marble (for Mumtaz's grave and koranic grafts) from his Makranna quarris, and stone cutters. Jaisingh was apparently so enraged at the blatant seizure of the Taj Mahal that he refused to oblige Shah Jahan by providing marble for grafting koranic engravings and fake cenotaphs for further desecration of the Taj Mahal. Jaisingh looked at Shah Jahan's demand for marble and stone cutters, as an insult added to injury. Therefore, he refused to send any marble and instead detained the stone cutters in his protective custody.

23. The three firmans demanding marble were sent to Jaisingh within about two years of Mumtaz's death. Had Shah Jahan really built the Taj Mahal over a period of 22 years, the marble would have needed only after 15 or 20 years not immediately after Mumtaz's death.

24. Moreover, the three mention neither the Taj Mahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the burial. The cost and the quantity of the stone also are not mentioned. This proves that an insignificant quantity of marble was needed just for some superficial tinkering and tampering with the Taj Mahal. Even otherwise Shah Jahan could never hope to build a fabulous Taj Mahal by abject dependence for marble on a non-cooperative Jaisingh.

European Visitors' Accounts

25. Tavernier, a French jeweller has recorded in his travel memoirs that Shah Jahan purposely buried Mumtaz near the Taz-i-Makan (i.e., `The Taj building') where foreigners used to come as they do even today so that the world may admire. He also adds that the cost of the scaffolding was more than that of the entire work. The work that Shah Jahan commissioned in the Tejomahalaya Shiva temple was plundering at the costly fixtures inside it, uprooting the Shiva idols, planting the cenotaphs in their place on two stories, inscribing the koran along the arches and walling up six of the seven stories of the Taj. It was this plunder; desecrating and plundering of the rooms which took 22 years.

26. Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra recorded in 1632 (within only a year of Mumtaz's death) that `the places of note in and around Agra, included Taj-e-Mahal's tomb, gardens and bazaars'. He, therefore, confirms that that the Taj Mahal had been a noteworthy building even before Shah Jahan. 27. De Laet, a Dutch official has listed Mansingh's palace about a mile from Agra fort, as an outstanding building of pre shah Jahan's time. Shah Jahan's court chronicle, the Badshahnama records, Mumtaz's burial in the same Mansingh's palace.

28. Bernier, a contemporary French visitor has noted that non Muslim's were barred entry into the basement (at the time when Shah Jahan requisitioned Mansingh's palace) which contained a dazzling light. Obviously, he referred to the silver doors, gold railing, the gem studded lattice and strings of pearl hanging over Shiva's idol. Shah Jahan commandeered the building to grab all the wealth, making Mumtaz's death a convenient pretext.

29. Johan Albert Mandelslo, who describes life in agra in 1638 (only 7 years after mumtaz's death) in detail (in his Voyages and Travels to West-Indies, published by John Starkey and John Basset, London), makes no mention of the Taj Mahal being under construction though it is commonly erringly asserted or assumed that the Taj was being built from 1631 to 1653.

Sanskrit Inscription

30. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the conclusion that the Taj originated as a Shiva temple. Wrongly termed as the Bateshwar inscription (currently preserved on the top floor of the Lucknow museum), it refers to the raising of a "crystal white Shiva temple so alluring that Lord Shiva once enshrined in it decided never to return to Mount Kailash his usual abode". That inscription dated 1155 A.D. was removed from the Taj Mahal garden at Shah Jahan's orders. Historians and Archaeologists have blundered in terming the inspiration the Bateshwar inscription when the record doesn't say that it was found by Bateshwar. It ought, in fact, to be called The Tejomahalaya inscription because it was originally installed in the Taj garden before it was uprooted and cast away at Shah Jahan's command.

A clue to the tampering by Shah Jahan is found on pages 216-217, vol. 4, of Archaeological Survey of India Reports (published 1874) stating that a "great square black ballistic pillar which, with the base and capital of another pillar....now in the grounds of Agra, ...it is well known, once stood in the garden of Taj Mahal".

Missing Elephants

31. Far from the building of the Taj, Shah Jahan disfigured it with black koranic lettering and heavily robbed it of its Sanskrit inscription, several idols and two huge stone elephants extending their trunks in a welcome arch over the gateway where visitors these days buy entry tickets. An Englishman, Thomas Twinning, records (pg.191 of his book "Travels in India A Hundred Years ago") that in November 1794 "I arrived at the high walls which enclose the Taj-e-Mahal and its circumjacent buildings. I here got out of the palanquin and.....mounted a short flight of steps leading to a beautiful portal which formed the center of this side of the Court Of Elephants as the great area was called."

Koranic Patches

32. The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14 chapters of the Koran but nowhere is there even the slightest or the remotest allusion in that Islamic overwriting to Shah Jahan's authorship of the Taj. Had Shah Jahan been the builder he would have said so in so many words before beginning to quote Koran.

33. That Shah Jahan, far from building the marble Taj, only disfigured it with black lettering is mentioned by the inscriber Amanat Khan Shirazi himself in an inscription on the building. A close scrutiny of the Koranic lettering reveals that they are grafts patched up with bits of variegated stone on an ancient Shiva temple.

Carbon 14 Test

34. A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the carbon 14 test by an American Laboratory and initiated by Professors at Pratt School of Architecture, New York, has revealed that the door to be 300 years older than Shah Jahan, since the doors of the Taj, broken open by Muslim invaders repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to b replaced from time to time. The Taj edifice is much more older. It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost 500 years anterior to Shah Jahan.

Architectural Evidence

35. Well known Western authorities on architecture like E.B. Havell, Mrs. Kenoyer and Sir W.W. Hunterhave gone on record to say that the Taj Mahal is built in the Hindu temple style. Havell points out the ground plan of the ancient Hindu Chandi Seva Temple in Java is identical with that of the Taj.

36. A central dome with cupolas at its Four Corners is a universal feature of Hindu temples.

37. The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style. They are used as lamp towers during night and watch towers during the day. Such towers serve to demarcate the holy precincts. Hindu wedding altars and the altar set up for God Satyanarayan worship has pillars raised at the Four Corners.

38. The octagonal shape of the Taj Mahal has a special Hindu significance because Hindus alone have special names for the eight directions, and celestial guards assigned to them. The pinnacle points to the heaven while the foundation signifies to the nether world. Hindu forts, cities, palaces and temples generally have an octagonal layout or some octagonal features so that together with the pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the ten directions in which the king or God holds sway, according to Hindu belief.

39. The Taj Mahal has a trident pinnacle over the dome. A full scale of the trident pinnacle is inlaid in the red stone courtyard to the east of the Taj. The central shaft of the trident depicts a Kalash (sacred pot) holding two bent mango leaves and a coconut. This is a sacred Hindu motif. Identical pinnacles have been seen over Hindu and Buddhist temples in the Himalayan region. Tridents are also depicted against a red lotus background at the apex of the stately marble arched entrances on all four sides of the Taj. People fondly but mistakenly believed all these centuries that the Taj pinnacle depicts an Islamic crescent and star was a lighting conductor installed by the British rulers in India. Contrarily, the pinnacle is a marvel of Hindu metallurgy since the pinnacle made of non-rusting alloy, is also perhaps a lightning deflector. That the pinnacle of the replica is drawn in the eastern courtyard is significant because the east is of special importance to the Hindus, as the direction in which the sun rises. The pinnacle on the dome has the word `Allah' on it after capture. The pinnacle figure on the ground does not have the word Allah.

Inconsistencies

40. The two buildings which face the marble Taj from the east and west are identical in design, size and shape and yet the eastern building is explained away by Islamic tradition, as a community hall while the western building is claimed to be a mosque. How could buildings meant for radically different purposes be identical? This proves that the western building was put to use as a mosque after seizure of the Taj property by Shah Jahan. Curiously enough the building being explained away as a mosque has no minaret. They form a pair at reception pavilions of the Tejomahalaya temple palace. 41. A few yards away from the same flank is the Nakkar Khana alias Drum House which is an intolerable incongruity for Islam. The proximity of the Drum House indicates that the western annex was not originally a mosque. Contrarily a drum house is a necessity in a Hindu temple or palace because Hindu chores, in the morning and evening, begin to the sweet strains of music.

42. The embossed patterns on the marble exterior of the cenotaph chamber wall are foliage of the conch shell design and the Hindu letter OM. The octagonally laid marble lattices inside the cenotaph chamber depict pink lotuses on their top railing. The Lotus, the conch and the OM are the sacred motifs associated with the Hindu deities and temples.

43. The spot occupied by Mumtaz's cenotaph was formerly occupied by the Hindu Teja Linga a lithic representation of Lord Shiva. Around it are five perambulatory passages. Perambulation could be done around the marble lattice or through the spacious marble chambers surrounding the cenotaph chamber, and in the open over the marble platform. It is also customary for the Hindus to have apertures along the perambulatory passage, overlooking the deity. Such apertures exist in the perambulatories in the Taj Mahal.

44. The sanctum sanctorum in the Taj has silver doors and gold railings as Hindu temples have. It also had nets of pearl and gems stuffed in the marble lattices. It was the lure of this wealth, which made Shah Jahan commandeer the Taj from a helpless vassal Jaisingh, the then ruler of Jaipur.

45. Peter Mundy, an Englishman records (in 1632, within a year of Mumtaz's death) having seen a gem studded gold railing around her tomb. Had the Taj been under construction for 22 years, a costly gold railing would not have been noticed by Peter mundy within a year of Mumtaz's death. Such costly fixtures are installed in a building only after it is ready for use. This indicates that Mumtaz's cenotaph was grafted in place of the Shivalinga in the center of the gold railings. Subsequently the gold railings, silver doors, nets of pearls, gem fillings etc. were all carried away to Shah Jahan's treasury. The seizure of the Taj thus constituted an act of highhanded Mughal robbery causing a big row between Shah Jahan and Jaisingh.

46. In the marble flooring around Mumtaz's cenotaph may be seen tiny mosaic patches. Those patches indicate the spots where the support for the gold railings were embedded in the floor. They indicate a rectangular fencing.

47. Above Mumtaz's cenotaph hangs a chain by which now hangs a lamp. Before capture by Shah Jahan the chain used to hold a water pitcher from which water used to drip on the Shivalinga. 48. It is this earlier Hindu tradition in the Taj Mahal which gave the Islamic myth of Shah Jahan's love tear dropping on Mumtaz's tomb on the full moon day of the winter eve.

Treasury Well

49. Between the so-called mosque and the drum house is a multistoried octagonal well with a flight of stairs reaching down to the water level. This is a traditional treasury well in Hindu temple palaces. Treasure chests used to be kept in the lower apartments while treasury personnel had their offices in the upper chambers. The circular stairs made it difficult for intruders to reach down to the treasury or to escape with it undetected or unpursued. In case the premises had to be surrendered to a besieging enemy the treasure could be pushed into the well to remain hidden from the conqueror and remain safe for salvaging if the place was reconquered. Such an elaborate multistoried well is superfluous for a mere mausoleum. Such a grand, gigantic well is unnecessary for a tomb.

Burial Date Unknown

50. Had Shah Jahan really built the Taj Mahal as a wonder mausoleum, history would have recorded a specific date on which she was ceremoniously buried in the Taj Mahal. No such date is ever mentioned. This important missing detail decisively exposes the falsity of the Taj Mahal legend.

51. Even the year of Mumtaz's death is unknown. It is variously speculated to be 1629, 1630, 1631 or 1632. Had she deserved a fabulous burial, as is claimed, the date of her death had not been a matter of much speculation. In a harem teeming with 5000 women it was difficult to keep track of dates of death. Apparently the date of Mumtaz's death was so insignificant an event, as not to merit any special notice. Who would then build a Taj for her burial?

Baseless Love Stories

52. Stories of Shah Jahan's exclusive infatuation for Mumtaz's are concoctions. They have no basis in history nor has any book ever written on their fancied love affairs. Those stories have been invented as an afterthought to make Shah Jahan's authorship of the Taj look plausible.

Cost

53. The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in Shah Jahan's court papers because Shah Jahan never built the Taj Mahal. That is why wild estimates of the cost by gullible writers have ranged from 4 million to 91.7 million rupees.

Period of Construction

54. Likewise the period of construction has been guessed to be anywhere between 10 years and 22 years. There would have not been any scope for guesswork had the building construction been on record in the court papers.

Architects

55. The designer of the Taj Mahal is also variously mentioned as Essa Effendy, a Persian or Turk, or Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman, Austin deBordeaux, or Geronimo Veroneo, an Italian, or Shah Jahan himself.

Records Don't Exist

56. Twenty thousand laborers are supposed to have worked for 22 years during Shah Jahan's reign in building the Taj Mahal. Had this been true, there should have been available in Shah Jahan's court papers design drawings, heaps of labor muster rolls, daily expenditure sheets, bills and receipts of material ordered, and commissioning orders. There is not even a scrap of paper of this kind.

57. It is, therefore, court flatterers, blundering historians, somnolent archeologists, fiction writers, senile poets, careless tourists officials and erring guides who are responsible for hustling the world into believing in Shah Jahan's mythical authorship of the Taj.

58. Description of the gardens around the Taj of Shah Jahan's time mention Ketaki, Jai, Jui, Champa, Maulashree, Harshringar and Bel. All these are plants whose flowers or leaves are used in the worship of Hindu deities. Bel leaves are exclusively used in Lord Shiva's worship. A graveyard is planted only with shady trees because the idea of using fruit and flower from plants in a cemetery is abhorrent to human conscience. The presence of Bel and other flower plants in the Taj garden is proof of its having been a Shiva temple before seizure by Shah Jahan.

59. Hindu temples are often built on river banks and sea beaches. The Taj is one such built on the bank of the Yamuna river an ideal location for a Shiva temple.

60. Prophet Mohammed has ordained that the burial spot of a Muslim should be inconspicuous and must not be marked by even a single tombstone. In flagrant violation of this, the Tajamhal has one grave in the basement and another in the first floor chamber both ascribed to Mumtaz. Those two cenotaphs were in fact erected by Shah Jahan to bury the two tier Shivalingas that were consecrated in the Taj. It is customary for Hindus to install two Shivalingas one over the other in two stories as may be seen in the Mahankaleshwar temple in Ujjain and the Somnath temple raised by Ahilyabai in Somnath Pattan.

61. The Taj Mahal has identical entrance arches on all four sides. This is a typical Hindu building style known as Chaturmukhi, i.e., four faced.

The Hindu Dome

62. The Taj Mahal has a reverberating dome. Such a dome is an absurdity for a tomb, which must ensure peace and silence. Contrarily reverberating domes are a necessity in Hindu temples because they create an ecstatic dinmultiplying and magnifying the sound of bells, drums and pipes accompanying the worship of Hindu deities.

63. The Taj Mahal dome bears a lotus cap. Original Islamic domes have a bald top as is exemplified by the Pakistan Embassy in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, and the domes in the Pakistan's newly built capital Islamabad.

64. The Taj Mahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an Islamic building it should have faced the west.

Tomb is the Grave, not the Building

65. A widespread misunderstanding has resulted in mistaking the building for the grave. Invading Islam raised graves in captured buildings in every country it overran. Therefore, hereafter people must learn not to confound the building with the grave mounds, which are grafts in conquered buildings. This is true of the Taj Mahal too. One may therefore admit (for argument's sake) that Mumtaz lies buried inside the Taj. But that should not be construed to mean that the Taj was raised over Mumtaz's grave.

66. The Taj is a seven storied building. Prince Aurangzeb also mentions this in his letter to Shah Jahan (Refer to the Figure 1 above). The marble edifice comprises four stories including the lone, tall circular hall inside the top, and the lone chamber in the basement. In between are two floors each containing 12 to 15 palatial rooms. Below the marble plinth reaching down to the river at the rear are two more stories in red stone. They may be seen from the river bank. The seventh storey must be below the ground (river) level since every ancient Hindu building had a subterranean storey.

67. Immediately bellow the marble plinth on the river flank are 22 rooms in red stone with their ventilators all walled up by Shah Jahan. Those rooms, made uninhibitably by Shah Jahan, are kept locked by Archaeology Department of India. The lay visitor is kept in the dark about them. Those 22 rooms still bear ancient Hindu paint on their walls and ceilings. On their side is a nearly 33 feet long corridor. There are two doorframes one at either end of the corridor. But those doors are intriguingly sealed with brick and lime.

68. Apparently those doorways originally sealed by Shah Jahan have been since unsealed and again walled up several times. In 1934 a resident of Delhi took a peep inside from an opening in the upper part of the doorway. To his dismay he saw huge hall inside. It contained many statues huddled around a central beheaded image of Lord Shiva. It could be that, in there, are Sanskrit inscriptions too. All the seven stories of the Taj Mahal need to be unsealed and scoured to ascertain what evidence they may be hiding in the form of Hindu images, Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures, coins and utensils.

69. Apart from Hindu images hidden in the sealed stories it is also learnt that Hindu images are also stored in the massive walls of the Taj. Between 1959 and 1962 when Mr. S.R. Rao was the Archaeological Superintendent in Agra, he happened to notice a deep and wide crack in the wall of the central octagonal chamber of the Taj. When a part of the wall was dismantled to study the crack out popped two or three marble images. The matter was hushed up and the images were reburied where they had been embedded at Shah Jahan's behest. Confirmation of this has been obtained from several sources. It was only when I began my investigation into the antecedents of the Taj I came across the above information, which had remained a forgotten secret. What better proof is needed of the Temple origin of the Taj Mahal? Its walls and sealed chambers still hide in Hindu idols that were consecrated in it before Shah Jahan's seizure of the Taj.

Pre-Shah Jahan References to the Taj

70. Apparently the Taj as a central palace seems to have a checkered history. The Taj was perhaps desecrated and looted by every Muslim invader from Mohammed Ghazni onwards but passing into Hindu hands off and on, the sanctity of the Taj as a Shiva temple continued to be revived after every Muslim onslaught. Shah Jahan was the last Muslim to desecrate the Taj Mahal alias Tejomahalay. 71. Vincent Smith records in his book titled `Akbar the Great Mughal' that `Babur's turbulent life came to an end in his garden palace in Agra in 1630'. That palace was none other than the Taj Mahal.

72. Babur's daughter Gulbadan Begum in her chronicle titled Humayun Nama refers to the Taj as the Mystic House.

73. Babur himself refers to the Taj in his memoirs as the palace captured by Ibrahim Lodi containing a central octagonal chamber and having pillars on the four sides. All these historical references allude to the Taj 100 years before Shah Jahan.

74. The Taj Mahal precincts extend to several hundred yards in all directions. Across the river are ruins of the annexes of the Taj, the bathing ghats and a jetty for the ferryboat. In the Victoria gardens outside covered with creepers is the long spur of the ancient outer wall ending in an octagonal red stone tower. Such extensive grounds all magnificently done up, are a superfluity for a grave.

75. Had the Taj been specially built to bury Mumtaz, it should not have been cluttered with other graves. But the Taj premises contain several graves at least in its eastern and southern pavilions. 76. In the southern flank, on the other side of the Taj ganj gate are buried in identical pavilions queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri Begum and a maid Satunnisa Khanum. Such parity burial can be justified only if the queens had been demoted or the maid promoted. But since Shah Jahan had commandeered (not built) the Taj, he reduced it general to a Muslim cemetery as was the habit of all his Islamic predecessors, and buried a queen in a vacant pavilion and a maid in another identical pavilion.

77. Shah Jahan was married to several other women before and after Mumtaz. She, therefore, deserved no special consideration in having a wonder mausoleum built for her.

78. Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she did not qualify for a fairyland burial.

79. Mumtaz died in Burhanpur, which is about 600 miles from Agra. Her grave there is intact. Therefore, the cenotaphs raised in stories of the Taj in her name seem to be fakes hiding in Hindu Shiva emblems.

80. Shah Jahan seems to have simulated Mumtaz's burial in Agra to find a pretext to surround the temple palace with his fierce and fanatic troops and remove all the costly fixtures in his treasury. This finds confirmation in the vague noting in the Badshahnama which says that the Mumtaz's (exhumed) body was brought to Agra from Burhanpur and buried `next year'. An official term would not use a nebulous term unless it is to hide some thing.

81. A pertinent consideration is that a Shah Jahan who did not build any palaces for Mumtaz while she was alive, would not build a fabulous mausoleum for a corpse which was no longer kicking or clicking.

82. Another factor is that Mumtaz died within two or three years of Shah Jahan becoming an emperor. Could he amass so much superfluous wealth in that short span as to squander it on a wonder mausoleum? 83. While Shah Jahan's special attachment to Mumtaz is nowhere recorded in history his amorous affairs with many other ladies from maids to mannequins including his own daughter Jahanara, find special attention in accounts of Shah Jahan's reign. Would Shah Jahan shower his hard-earned wealth on Mumtaz's corpse?

84. Shah Jahan was a stingy, usurious monarch. He came to throne murdering all his rivals. He was not therefore, the doting spendthrift that he is made out to be.

85. A Shah Jahan disconsolate on Mumtaz's death is suddenly credited with a resolve to build the Taj. This is a psychological incongruity. Grief is a disabling, incapacitating emotion.

86. An infatuated Shah Jahan is supposed to have raised the Taj over the dead Mumtaz, but carnal, physical sexual love is again an incapacitating emotion. A womanizer is ipso facto incapable of any constructive activity. When carnal love becomes uncontrollable the person either murders somebody or commits suicide. He cannot raise a Taj Mahal. A building like the Taj invariably originates in an ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to one's mother and mother country or power and glory.

87. Early in the year 1973, chance digging in the garden in front of the Taj revealed another set of fountains about six feet below the present fountains. This proved two things. Firstly, the subterranean fountains were there before Shah Jahan laid the surface fountains. And secondly that those fountains are aligned to the Taj that edifice too is of pre Shah Jahan origin. Apparently the garden and its fountains had sunk from annual monsoon flooding and lack of maintenance for centuries during the Islamic rule.

88. The stately rooms on the upper floor of the Taj Mahal have been striped of their marble mosaic by Shah Jahan to obtain matching marble for raising fake tombstones inside the Taj premises at several places. Contrasting with the rich finished marble ground floor rooms the striping of the marble mosaic covering the lower half of the walls and flooring of the upper storey have given those rooms a naked, robbed look. Since no visitors are allowed entry to the upper storey this despoliation by Shah Jahan has remained a well-guarded secret. There is no reason why Shah Jahan's loot of the upper floor marble should continue to be hidden from the public even after 200 years of termination of Mughal rule.

89. Bernier, the French traveler has recorded that no non-Muslim was allowed entry into the secret nether chambers of the Taj because there are some dazzling fixtures there. Had those been installed by Shah Jahan they should have been shown the public as a matter of pride. But since it was commandeered Hindu wealth, which Shah Jahan wanted to remove to his treasury, he didn't want the public to know about it.

90. The approach to Taj is dotted with hillocks raised with earth dugout from foundation trenches. The hillocks served as outer defenses of the Taj building complex. Raising such hillocks from foundation earth, is a common Hindu device of hoary origin. Nearby Bharatpur provides a graphic parallel. Peter Mundy has recorded that Shah Jahan employed thousands of laborers to level some of those hillocks. This is a graphic proof of the Taj Mahal existing before Shah Jahan.

91. At the backside of the river bank is a Hindu crematorium, several palaces, Shiva temples and bathings of ancient origin. Had Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal, he would have destroyed the Hindu features.

92. The story that Shah Jahan wanted to build a Black marble Taj across the river, is another motivated myth. The ruins dotting the other side of the river are those of Hindu structures demolished during Muslim invasions and not the plinth of another Taj Mahal. Shah Jahan who did not even build the white Taj Mahal would hardly ever think of building a black marble Taj. He was so miserly that he forced laborers to work gratis even in the superficial tampering necessary to make a Hindu temple serve as a Muslim tomb.

93. The marble that Shah Jahan used for grafting Koranic lettering in the Taj is of a pale white shade while the rest of the Taj is built of a marble with rich yellow tint. This disparity is proof of the Koranic extracts being a superimposition. 94. Though imaginative attempts have been made by some historians to foist some fictitious name on history as the designer of the Taj others more imaginative have credited Sha Jahan himself with superb architectural proficiency and artistic talent which could easily conceive and plan the Taj even in acute bereavement. Such people betray gross ignorance of history in as much as Sha Jahan was a cruel tyrant, a great womanizer and a drug and drink addict.

95. Fanciful accounts about Shah Jahan commissioning the Taj are all confused. Some asserted that Shah Jahan ordered building drawing from all over the world and chose one from among them. Others assert that a man at hand was ordered to design a mausoleum and his design was approved. Had any of those versions been true Shah Jahan's court papers should have had thousands of drawings concerning the Taj. But there is not even a single drawing. This is yet another clinching proof that Shah Jahan did not commission the Taj.

96. The Taj Mahal is surrounded by huge mansions, which indicate that several battles have been waged around the Taj several times.

97. At the southeast corner of the Taj is an ancient royal cattle house. Cows attached to the Tejomahalay temple used to reared there. A cowshed is an incongruity in an Islamic tomb.

98. Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red stone annexes. These are superfluous for a mausoleum.

99. The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms. Residential accommodation on such a stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum. 100. The neighboring Taj ganj township's massive protective wall also encloses the Taj Mahal temple palace complex. This is a clear indication that the Tejomahalay temple palace was part and parcel of the township. A street of that township leads straight into the Taj Mahal. The Taj ganj gate is aligned in a perfect straight line to the octagonal red stone garden gate and the stately entrance arch of the Taj Mahal. The Taj ganj gate besides being central to the Taj temple complex, is also put on a pedestal. The comparatively by which the visitors enter the Taj complex is a comparatively minor gateway. It has become the entry gate for most visitors today because the railway station and the bus station are on that side.

101. The Taj Mahal has pleasure pavilions, which a tomb would never have.

102. A tiny mirror glass in a gallery of the Red Fort in Agra reflects the Taj mahal. Shah Jahan is said to have spent his last eight years of life as a prisoner in that gallery peering at the reflected Taj Mahal and sighing in the name of Mumtaz. This myth is a blend of many falsehoods. Firstly, old Sha Jahan was held prisoner by his son Aurangzeb in the basement storey in the Fort and not in an open, fashionable upper storey. Secondly, the glass piece was fixed in the 1930's by Insha Allah Khan, a peon of the archaeology dept. just to illustrate to the visitors how in ancient times the entire apartment used to scintillate with tiny mirror pieces reflecting the Tejomahalay temple a thousand fold. Thirdly, a old decrepit Shah Jahan with pain in his joints and cataract in his eyes, would not spend his day craning his neck at an awkward angle to peer into a tiny glass piece with bedimmed eyesight when he could as well his face around and have full, direct view of the Taj Mahal itself. But the general public is so gullible as to gulp all such prattle of wily, unscrupulous guides.

103. That the Taj Mahal dome has hundreds of iron rings sticking out of its exterior is a feature rarely noticed. These are made to hold Hindu earthen oil lamps for temple illumination.

104. Those putting implicit faith in Shah Jahan authorship of the Taj have been imagining Shah Jahan-Mumtaz to be a soft hearted romantic pair like Romeo and Juliet. But contemporary accounts speak of Shah Jahan as a hard hearted ruler who was constantly egged on to acts of tyranny and cruelty, by Mumtaz.

105. School and College history carry the myth that Shah Jahan reign was a golden period in which there was peace and plenty and that Shah Jahan commissioned many buildings and patronized literature. This is pure fabrication. Shah Jahan did not commission even a single building as we have illustrated by a detailed analysis of the Taj Mahal legend. Shah Jahan had to enrage in 48 military campaigns during a reign of nearly 30 years which proves that his was not an era of peace and plenty.

106. The interior of the dome rising over Mumtaz's cenotaph has a representation of Sun and cobras drawn in gold. Hindu warriors trace their origin to the Sun. For an Islamic mausoleum the Sun is redundant. Cobras are always associated with Lord Shiva.

Forged Documents

107. The Muslim caretakers of the tomb in the Taj Mahal used to possess a document, which they styled as Tarikh-i-Tajmahal. Historian H.G. Keene has branded it as a document of doubtful authenticity. Keene was uncannily right since we have seen that Shah Jahan not being the creator of the Taj Mahal any document, which credits Shah Jahan with the Taj Mahal, must be an outright forgery. Even that forged document is reported to have been smuggled out of Pakistan. Besides such forged documents there are whole chronicles on the Taj which are pure concoctions.

108. There is lot of sophistry and casuistry or at least confused thinking associated with the Taj even in the minds of professional historians, archaeologists and architects. At the outset they assert that the Taj is entirely Muslim in design. But when it is pointed out that its lotus capped dome and the four corner pillars etc. are all entirely Hindu those worthies shift ground and argue that that was probably because the workmen were Hindu and were to introduce their own patterns. Both these arguments are wrong because Muslim accounts claim the designers to be Muslim, and the workers invariably carry out the employer's dictates.

The Taj is only a typical illustration of how all historic buildings and townships from Kashmir to Cape Comorin though of Hindu origin have been ascribed to this or that Muslim ruler or courtier.

It is hoped that people the world over who study Indian history will awaken to this new finding and revise their erstwhile beliefs.

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-2)

2011-11-21T07:09:00.000-08:00

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-2): THE PROOFS:- Name 1.The term Taj Mahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle ...

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-3)

2011-11-21T07:08:00.000-08:00

desertROSE Post: Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-3): Photographic Evidences An aerial view of the Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya, ancient Hindu temple complex in Agra. For the last 300 years...

Taj Mahal: An Epic Manipulated (Part-3)
Photographic Evidences

An aerial view of the Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya, ancient Hindu temple complex in Agra. For the last 300 years the world has been fooled to believe that this stupendous edifice was built by the 5th generation Mogul emperor Shahjahan to commemorate one of his dead wives--Mumtaz. The two flanking buildings although identical, only the one in the rear is known as a mosque.
The Taj Mahal has seven stories. Five of them lie sealed and barred concealing rich evidence. The marble building in the centre is flanked by two symmetrical ones. The one in the foreground is the eastern one. The one in the background is being represented as a mosque because it is to the west. They should not have been identical if only one was to be a mosque. In the courtyard at the foot of the eastern building is inlaid a full scale replica of the trident pinnacle [found at the top of the dome]. The tiny tower at the left near the western building, encloses a huge octagonal multi-storied well.

This is the massive octagonal well with palatial apartments along its seven stories. A royal staircase descends right down to the water level indicated by the tiny white patch showing the sun's reflection.
This was the traditional treasury well of the Hindu temple palace. Treasure chests used to be stacked in the lower stories. Accountants, cashiers and treasurers sat in the upper stories. Cheques called handies used to be issued from here. On being besieged, if the building had to be surrendered to the enemy, the treasure used to be pushed into the water for salvage later after recapture. For real research, water should be pumped out of this well to reveal the evidence that lies at the bottom. This well is inside a tower near the so-called mosque to the west of the marble Taj. Had the Taj been a mausoleum this octagonal multistoried well would have been superfluous.

A frontal view of the Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya in Agra. It is octagonal because the Hindus believe in 10 directions. The pinnacle pointing to the heaven and the foundation to the nether world, plus the eight surface directions make the 10 directions. Divinity and royalty are believed to hold sway in all those 10 directions. Hence in Hindu tradition, buildings connected with royalty and divinity must have some octagonal features or the buildings themselves should be octagonal. The two flanking cupolas (two others to the rear are not seen in this photo) are also identical. The towers at the four plinth corners served as watch towers during the day, and to hold lights at night. Hindu wedding altars and Satyanarayan worship altars invariably have such towers at corners. [Many other Hindu temples, such as those at Khajurao, also can be found to have four towers or temples, one at each corner of the temple foundation.] The lotus flower cap on the head of the dome is a Hindu feature. Muslim domes are bald. This marble edifice has four stories. Inside the dome is an 83 ft. high hall. The Taj has a double dome. The dome one sees from inside ends like an inverted pan on the terrace. The dome seen from outside is a cover on the inner dome. Therefore, in between them is an 83 ft. hall. This may be considered as one storey. Underneath may be seen the first storey arches and the ground floor rooms. In the basement, visitors are shown one room. All these constitute the four storeys in the marble edifice. Below the marble structure are two stories in red stone reaching down to the river level. The 7thstorey must be below the river level because every ancient Hindu historic building did have a basement. Thus, the Taj is a seven-storied structure.

The dome of the Taj Mahal bearing a trident pinnacle made of a non-rusting eight-metal Hindu alloy. The pinnacle served as a lightning deflector too. This pinnacle has been blindly assumed by many to be an Islamic crescent and star, or a lightning conductor installed by the British. This is a measure of the careless manner in which Indian history has been studied till now. Visually identifiable things like this pinnacle too have been misinterpreted with impunity. The flower top of the dome, below the pinnacle, is an unmistakable Hindu sign. A full scale figure of this pinnacle is inlaid in the eastern courtyard.

A close up of the upper portion of the pinnacle of the Taj Mahal, photographed from the parapet beneath the dome. 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. This Hindu pinnacle had all these centuries been misinterpreted as an Islamic crescent and star or a lightning conductor installed by the British. The word "Allah" etched here by Shahjahan is absent in the courtyard replica. The coconut, the bent mango leaves under it and the supporting Kalash (water pot) are exclusive Hindu motifs.

The full scale figure of the pinnacle on the dome has been inlaid on the red stone courtyard of the Taj Mahal. One may see it to the east at the foot of the riverside arch of the flanking building wrongly dubbed as Jamiat Khana (community hall) by Muslim usurpers. Such floor sketches in courtyards are a common Hindu trait. In Fatehpur Sikri it is the backgammon board which is sketched on a central courtyard. The coconut top and the bent mango leaves underneath, resting on a kalash (i.e. a water pot) is a sacred Hindu motif. Hindu shrines in the Himalayan foothills have identical pinnacles [especially noticed at Kedarnath, a prominent Shiva temple]. The eastern location of the sketch is also typically Hindu. The length measures almost 32 ft.

The apex of the lofty entrance arch on all four sides of the Taj Mahal bears this red lotus and white trident--indicating that the building originated as a Hindu temple. The Koranic lettering forming the middle strip was grafted after Shahjahan seized the building from Jaipur state's Hindu ruler.

This is a riverside view of the Taj Mahal. The four storied marble structure above has under it these two stories reaching down to the river level. The 22 rooms shown in other photos are behind that line of arches seen in the middle. Each arch is flanked by Hindu lotus discs in white marble. Just above the ground level is the plinth. In the left corner of the plinth is a doorway indicating inside the plinth are many rooms sealed by Shahjahan. One could step out to the river bank from the door at the left. The 7th storey is surmised to be under the plinth below the ground because every ancient Hindu mansion had a basement. Excavation to reach the basement chamber should start under this door.

Most people content to see Mumtaz's grave inside the Taj fail to go to the rear riverside. This is the riverside view. From here one may notice that the four-storied marble structure on top has below it two more stories in red stone. Note the window aperture in the arch at the left. That indicates that there are rooms inside. Inside the row of arches in the upper part of the wall are 22 rooms. In addition to the four stories in marble, this one shows red stone arches in the 5th storey. The 6th storey lies in the plinth in the lower portion of the photo. In another photo a doorway would be seen in the left corner of the plinth, indicating the presence of apartments inside, from where one could emerge on the river for a bath.

These corridors at the approach of the Taj Mahal are typically Hindu. They may be seen in any ancient Hindu capital. Note the two octagonal tower cupolas at the right and left top. Only Hindus have special names for the eight directions and celestial guards assigned to each. Any octagonal feature in historic buildings should convince the visitor of their Hindu origin. Guards, palanquin bearers and other attendants resided in hundreds of rooms along numerous such corridors when the Taj Mahal was a Hindu temple palace. Thus the Taj was more magnificent and majestic before it was reduced to a sombre Islamic cemetery.

This Naqqar Khana alias Music House in the Taj Mahal garden is an incongruity if the Taj Mahal were an Islamic tomb. Close by on the right is the building which Muslims claim to be a mosque. The proximity of a mosque to the Music House is incongruous with Muslim tradition. In India, Muslims have a tradition of pelting stones on Hindu music processions passing over a mosque. Moreover a mausoleum needs silence. A dead person's repose is never to be disturbed. Who would then provide a band house for a dead Mumtaz? Contrarily Hindu temples and palaces have a music house because morning and evening Hindu chores begin to the sweet strains of sacred music.

Such are the rooms on the 1st floor of the marble structure of the Taj Mahal. The two staircases leading to this upper floor are kept locked and barred since Shahjahan's time. The floor and the marble walls of such upper floor rooms can be seen in the picture to have been stripped of its marble panels. Shahjahan used that uprooted marble from the upper floor for constructing graves and engraving the Koran because he did not know wherefrom to procure marble matching the splendour of the rest of the Taj Mahal. He was also so stingy as not to want to spend much even on converting a robbed Hindu temple into an Islamic mausoleum.

Such are the magnificent marble-paved, shining, cool, white bright rooms of the Taj Mahal temple palace's marble ground floor. Even the lower third portion of the walls is covered with magnificent marble mosaic. The doorway at the left looks suspiciously closed with a stone slab. One can perambulate through these rooms around the central octagonal sanctorum, now occupied by Mumtaz's fake grave. The aperture, seen through of the central door, enabled perambulating devotees to keep their eyes fixed on the Shiva Linga in the central chamber. Hindu Shiva Lingas are consecrated in two chambers, one above the other. Therefore, Shahjahan had to raise two graves in the name of Mumtaz--one in the marble basement and the other on the ground floor to desecrate and hide both the Shiva emblems from public view. [The famous Shiva temple in Ujjain also has an underground chamber for one of its Shiva-lingams.]

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.

This staircase and another symmetrical one at the other end lead down to the storey beneath the marble platform. Visitors may go to the back of the marble plinth at the eastern or western end and descend down the staircase because it is open to the sky. But at the foot the archaeology department has set up an iron door which it keeps locked. Yet one may peep inside from the iron gate in the upper part of the door. Shahjahan had sealed even these two staircases. It was the British who opened them. But from Shahjahan's time the stories below and above the marble ground floor have been barred to visitors. We are still following Mogul dictates though long free from Mogul rule.

On the inner flank of the 22 locked rooms (in the secret storey in red stone below the marble platform) is this corridor about 12 ft. broad and 300 ft. long. Note the scallop design at the base of the plinth supporting the arches. This is the Hindu decoration which enables one to identify even a bare plinth.

One of the 22 rooms in the secret storey underneath the marble plinth of the Taj Mahal. Many such features of the Taj remain unknown to the public so long as they see it only as a tomb. If the public knew how much it is missing in the Taj Mahal it will insist that the government unseal its many stories. Two doorways at either end of this corridor in the right side wall leading to inner apartments have been sealed by Shahjahan. If those doorways are opened, important evidence concealed inside by Shahjahan may come to light.

A corner of one of the 22 rooms in the secret storey immediately below the marble platform of the Taj Mahal. Note the strips of Hindu paint on the wall. The ventilator at the left, meant for air and light from the riverside, has been crudely walled up by Shahjahan. He did not bother even to plaster them. Had Shahjahan built the Taj as a mausoleum what was the purpose of the 22 rooms? And why are they kept locked and hidden from the public?

One of the 22 locked rooms in the secret storey beneath the marble platform of the Taj Mahal. Strips of ancient Hindu paint are seen on the wall flanking the doorway. The niches above had paintings of Hindu idols, obviously rubbed off by Muslim desecraters. The rooms may be seen door within door in a row. If the public knew that the Taj Mahal is a structure hiding hundreds of rooms, they would insist on seeing the whole of it. At present they only peep into the grave chamber and walk away.

This esoteric Hindu design is painted on the ceiling of some of the 22 locked rooms in the secret storey below the marble platform of the Taj Mahal in Agra. Had Shahjahan built the Taj Mahal he would not have kept such elaborately painted rooms sealed and barred to the public. Even now one can enter these rooms only if one can influence the archaeology department to remove the locks.

A huge ventilator of one of the 22 rooms in a secret storey of the Taj, is seen here crudely sealed with unplastered bricks by Shahjahan. History has been so perverted and inverted that alien Muslims like Shahjahan who spoiled, damaged, desecrated and destroyed historic Hindu buildings, are being falsely paraded as great builders.

One of the 22 riverside rooms in a secret storey of the Taj Mahal, unknown to the public. Shahjahan, far from building the shining marble Taj, wantonly disfigured it. Here he has crudely walled up a doorway. Such imperial Mogul vandalism lies hidden from the public. This room is in the red stone storey immediately below the marble platform. Indian history has been turned topsy turvy in lauding destroyers as great builders.

Many such doorways of chambers in secret stories underneath the Taj Mahal have been sealed with brick and lime. Concealed inside could be valuable evidence such as Sanskrit inscriptions, Hindu idols, the original Hindu model of the Taj, the desecrated Shiva Linga, Hindu scriptures and temple equipment. Besides such sealed chambers there are many which are kept locked by the Government. The Public must raise its voice to have these opened or it should institute legal proceedings. Shree P. N. Sharma of Green Park, New Delhi who peeped through an aperture in these chambers in 1934 A.D. saw a pillared hall with images carved on the pillars.

Burharpur is a very ancient historic city on the Central Railway between Khandwa and Bhusawal junctions. Burhanpur and the nearby Asirgarh (fort) used to provide hospitality to Hindu royals proceeding north or south on pilgrimage, weddings or military expeditions. Barhanpur has many magnificent mansions which are currently being described as mosques and tombs of alien Islamic invaders. This building is one such ancient Hindu royal palace captured by the Moghuls. Mumtaz died here during her 14th delivery around 1630 A.D. while she and Shahjahan were camping here. She is said to be buried in a Hindu pavilion in front of this palace.

Mumtaz is supposed to be buried in this garden pavilion of the ancient Hindu palace (Ahu Mahal) 600 miles from Agra, in Burhanpur. Another version says that Mumtaz's corpse was kept here exposed to sun, rain, and wild beasts for six months. The date of her death, the date of her removal from Burhanpur to Agra, and the date of her assumed burial in the Taj Mahal are all unknown because the entire Taj Mahal-Mumtaz legend is a concoction from the beginning to end. [Mumtaz was only one of several hundred wives and women that Shahjahan kept in his harem.]

In a detail on the gate, we can see two elephant’s trunks, one on either side of the design, which would indicate Ganesh.

Inverted water-pots on top. Their number is always odd, 11 in this case, typical of the Vedic system. Notice also the cobra design in pairs below the gallery. Koranic inscriptions were a graffiti added by Shahjahan.

Wall decorations as we see here are typical Rajput style. There is also a balcony at first floor level.

Note the Trident within the lotus form at the apex. Both of which are Vedic references, the trident being connected with Lord Shiva.

The Veranda on the west side of the Entrance Gate. It was probably for public assemblies, discussions, teaching or chanting of Mantras.

Now you can see the "3" figure of the OM design within the carved marble flower, a definite Vedic design.

Conch shell decorations in marble carving next to the ventilation grill.

We are now outside the Cenotaph Chamber. Note how the steps in plain marble break up the designs on the plinth wall. This means that they are not original.

The Cenotaph chamber with marble screen. The point is why have an octagonal screen around two graves? It is more likely to have been an area of where sacred activities once took place.

The Cenotaph chamber with marble screen. The point is why have an octagonal screen around two graves? It is more likely to have been an area of where sacred activities once took place.

Replica of the pinnacle design of the top of the main dome as found in the garden.

An early photo of Taj from the riverside clearly showing 2 levels of hidden basements. Vincent Smith published this photo in his book "History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon", in 1911. The earliest we find such photo was in 1844 in Sleeman’s book – "Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official". And yet no historian has ever been curious to go inside these basements.

Blue print of the Taj Mahal showing cross-section of Central Edifice in a book by J Fergusson in 1855. It clearly shows the hidden basements.

Here you can see, not far from the plinth of the Taj, the stairway that goes down to the 22 rooms. It is surrounded by the red sandstone railing.

Entrance to lower basement floor that is now bricked up.

The timber door before it was sealed up with bricks. In 1974 American Professor Marvin Mills took a sample from this door for Carbon dating and concluded that the Taj Mahal pre-dates Shahjahan. After this revelation, the Government of India removed the timber doors and the openings were bricked up, as shown in the previous photo.

Here is a typical tower (Burj) that is in familiar Rajput style, not Islamic in any way.

Stones for anchoring boats. On the North side of the Taj Mahal, there is a platform 3 ft 6 inches wide and it runs for the entire length. The platform also has embedded into it several stone rings for anchoring boats. In the photo we can see two such stones, one in the lower right front corner, the other further up the stream. This shows that the building was planned for facilitating boats for river transportation for the residents in the Taj. Again, these are not something you would need for a quiet or even vacant grave site. ALSO NOTE THE DESIGN.

Here is a copy of a page of the Badshahnama, the history of Shah Jahan, the so-called builder of the Taj Mahal. This is from the Government of India's National Archives, and available from the instituional libraries dealing with the medieval history of India.
This is supposed to have been written by the emperor's chronicler, the Mullah Abdul Hamid Lahori. It describes the site of the Taj Mahal as being full of majestic and lush gardens just south of the city (Agra). It goes on to say that the palace of Raja Mansingh, which was owned by his grandson Raja Jaisingh, was selected as the place for the burial of the queen Mumtaz. This means, of course, that Shah Jahan never built the Taj Mahal but only acquired it from the previous owner, who was Jaisingh.

Goddess Bhadrakali in the form of the Mother - Mandhachaleswari in the temple of Thirumandham Kunnilamma

2011-09-30T10:12:00.000-07:00

Goddess Bhadrakali in the form of the Mother - Mandhachaleswari in the temple of Thirumandham Kunnilamma

आज़ादी आंदोलन के प्रेरणा पुरुष लाला लाजपत राय by चेतना प्रवाह

2011-09-30T10:11:00.000-07:00

आज़ादी आंदोलन के प्रेरणा पुरुष लाला लाजपत राय
by चेतना प्रवाह

भारत की आजादी के आन्दोलन के प्रखर नेता लाला लाजपत राय का नाम ही देशवासियों में स्फूर्ति तथा प्रेरणा का संचार कराता है। अपने देश धर्म तथा संस्कृति के लिए उनमें जो प्रबल प्रेम तथा आदर था उसी के कारण वे स्वयं को राष्ट्र के लिए समर्पित कर अपना जीवन दे सके। भारत को स्वाधीनता दिलाने में उनका त्याग, बलिदान तथा देशभक्ति अद्वितीय और अनुपम थी। उनके बहुविधि क्रियाकलाप में साहित्य-लेखन एक महत्वपूर्ण आयाम है। वे ऊर्दू तथा अंग्रेजी के समर्थ रचनाकार थे। लालाजी का जन्म 28 जनवरी, 1865 को अपने ननिहाल के गाँव ढुंढिके (जिला फरीदकोट, पंजाब) में हुआ था।

उनके पिता लाला राधाकृष्ण लुधियाना जिले के जगराँव कस्बे के निवासी अग्रवाल वैश्य थे। लाला राधाकृष्ण अध्यापक थे। लाजपतराय की शिक्षा पाँचवें वर्ष में आरम्भ हुई। 1880 में उन्होंने कलकत्ता तथा पंजाब विश्वविद्यायल से एंट्रेंस की परीक्षा एक वर्ष में पास की और आगे पढऩे के लिए लाहौर आये। यहाँ वे गर्वमेंट कालेज में प्रविष्ट हुए और 1982 में एफ0 ए0 की परीक्षा तथा मुख्यारी की परीक्षा साथ-साथ पास की। यहीं वे आर्यसमाज के सम्पर्क में आये और उसके सदस्य बन गये। लाला साँईदास आर्यसमाज के प्रति इतने अधिक समर्पित थे कि वे होनहार नवयुवकों को इस संस्था में प्रविष्ट करने के लिए सदा तत्पर रहते थे। स्वामी श्रद्धानन्द (तत्कालीन लाला मुंशीराम) को आर्यसमाज में लाने का श्रेय भी उन्हें ही है। 30 अक्टूबर, 1883 को जब अजमेर में ऋषि दयानन्द का देहान्त हो गया तो 9 नवम्बर, 1883 को लाहौर आर्यसमाज की ओर एक शोकसभा का आयोजन किया गया। इस सभा के अन्त में यह निश्चित हुआ कि स्वामी जी की स्मृति में एक ऐसे महाविद्यालय की स्थापना की जाये जिसमें वैदिक साहित्य, संस्कृति तथा हिन्दी की उच्च शिक्षा के साथ-साथ अंग्रेजी और पाश्चात्य ज्ञान -विज्ञान में भी छात्रों को दक्षता प्राप्त कराई जाये। 1886 में जब इस शिक्षण की स्थापना हुई तो आर्यसमाज के अन्य नेताओं के साथ लाला लाजपतराय का भी इसके संचालन में महत्त्वपूर्ण योगदान रहा तथा वे कालान्तर में डी0ए0वी0 कालेज, लाहौर के महान स्तम्भ बने।

वकालत के क्षेत्र में :- लाला लाजपतराय ने एक मुख्तार (छोटा वकील) के रूप में अपने मूल निवासस्थल जगराँव में ही वकालत आरम्भ कर दी थी; किन्तु यह कस्बा बहुत छोटा था, जहाँ उनके कार्य के बढऩे की अधिक सम्भावना नहीं थी, अत: वे रोहतक चले गये। रोहतक में 1885 में वकालत की परीक्षा उत्तीर्ण की, 1886 में वे हिसार आ गये। एक सफल वकील के रूप में 1892 तक वे यहीं रहे और इसी वर्ष लाहौर आये। तब से लाहौर ही उनकी सार्वजनिक गतिविधियों का केन्द्र बन गया। लालाजी ने अपने साथियों सहित सामाजिक हित की योजनाओं के कार्यान्वयन में योगदान किया किन्तु लाहौर आने पर वे आर्यसमाज के अतिरिक्त राजनैतिक आन्दोलन के साथ भी जुड़ गये। 1888 में वे प्रथम बार कांग्रेस के इलाहाबाद अधिवेशन में सम्मिलित हुए जिनकी अध्यक्षता मि0 जार्ज यूल ने की थी। 1906 में वे प0 गोपालकृष्ण गोखले के साथ कांग्रेस के एक शिष्टमण्डल के सदस्य के रूप में इंग्लैड गये। यहाँ से वे अमेरिका चले गये। उन्होंने कई बार विदेश यात्राएँ की और वहाँ रहकर पश्चिमी देशों के समक्ष भारत की राजनैतिक परिस्थिति की वास्तविकता से वहां के लोगों को परिचित कराया तथा उन्हें स्वाधीनता आन्दोलन की जानकारी दी। लाला लाजपतराय ने अपने सहयोगियों-लोकमान्य तिलक तथा विपिनचन्द्र पाल के साथ मिलकर कांग्रेस में उग्र विचारों का प्रवेश कराया। 1885 में अपनी स्थापना से लेकर लगभग बीस वर्षो तक कांग्रेस ने एक राजभवन संस्था का चरित्र बनाये रखा था। इसके नेतागण वर्ष में एक बार बड़े दिन की छुट्टियों में देश के किसी नगर में एकत्रित होने और विनम्रता पूर्वक शासनों के सूत्रधारों (अंग्रेजी) से सरकारी उच्च सेवाओं में भारतीयों को अधिकाधिक संख्या में प्रविष्ट युगराज के भारत-आगमन पर उनका स्वागत करने का प्रस्ताव आया तो लालाजी ने उनका डटकर विरोध किया। कांग्रेस के मंच ये यह अपनी किस्म का पहला तेजस्वी भाषण हुआ जिसमें देश की अस्मिता प्रकट हुई थी। 1907 में जब पंजाब के किसानों में अपने अधिकारों को लेकर चेतना उत्पन्न हुई तो सरकार का क्रोध लालाजी तथा सरदार अजीतसिंह (शहीद भगतसिंह के चाचा) पर उमड़ पड़ा और इन दोनों देशभक्त नेताओं को देश से निर्वासित कर उन्हें पड़ोसी देश बर्मा के मांडले नगर में नजरबंद कर दिया, किन्तु देशवासियों द्वारा सरकार के इस दमनपूर्ण कार्य का प्रबल विरोध किये जाने पर सरकार को अपना यह आदेश वापस लेना पड़ा। लालाजी पुन: स्वदेश आये और देशवासियों ने उनका भावभीना स्वागत किया। लालाजी के राजनैतिक जीवन की कहानी अत्यन्त रोमांचक तो है ही, भारतीयों को स्वदेश-हित के लिए बलिदान तथा महान् त्याग करने की प्रेरणा भी देती है।

जन-सेवा के कार्य :- लालाजी केवल राजनैतिक नेता और कार्यकर्ता ही नहीं थे। उन्होंने जन सेवा का भी सच्चा पाठ पढ़ा था। जब 1896 तथा 1899 (इसे राजस्थान में छप्पन का अकाल कहते हैं, क्योंकि यह विक्रम का 1956 का वर्ष था) में उत्तर भारत में भयंकर दुष्काल पड़ा तो लालाजी ने अपने साथी लाला हंसराज के सहयोग से अकालपीडि़त लोगों को सहायता पहुँचाई। जिन अनाथ बच्चों को ईसाई पादरी अपनाने के लिए तैयार थे और अन्तत: जो उनका धर्म-परिवर्तन करने के इरादे रखते थे उन्हें इन मिशनरियों के चुंगुल से बचाकर फीरोजपुर तथा आगरा के आर्य अनाथलायों में भेजा। 1905 में कांगड़ा (हिमाचल प्रदेश) में भयंकर भूकम्प आया। उस समय भी लालाजी सेवा-कार्य में जुट गये और डी0ए0वी0 कालेज लाहौर के छात्रों के साथ भूकम्प-पीडि़तों को राहत प्रदान की।

1907-08 में उड़ीसा मध्यप्रदेश तथा संयुक्त प्रान्त (वर्तमान उत्तर प्रदेश) से भी भयंकर दुर्भिक्ष पड़ा और लालाजी को पीडितों की सहायता के लिए आगे आना पड़ा। पुन: राजनैतिक आन्दोलन में 1907 के सूरत के प्रसिद्ध कांग्रेस अधिवेशन में लाला लाजपतराय ने अपने सहयोगियों के द्वारा राजनीति में गरम दल की विचारधारा का सूत्रपात कर दिया था और जनता को यह विश्वास दिलाने में सफल हो गये थे कि केवल प्रस्ताव पास करने और गिड़गिड़ाने से स्वतंत्रता मिलने वाली नहीं है। हम यह देख चुके हैं कि जनभावना को देखते हुए अंग्रेजों को उनके देश-निर्वासन को रद्द करना पड़ा था। वे स्वदेश आये और पुन: स्वाधीनता के संघर्ष में जुट गये। प्रथम विश्वयुद्ध (1914-18) के दौरान वे एक प्रतिनिधि मण्डल के सदस्य के रूप में पुन: इंग्लैंड गये और देश की आजादी के लिए प्रबल जनमत जागृत किया। वहाँ से वे जापान होते हुए अमेरिका चले गये और स्वाधीनता-प्रेमी अमेरिकावासियों के समक्ष भारत की स्वाधीनता का पथ प्रबलता से प्रस्तुत किया। यहाँ इण्डियन होम रूल लीग की स्थापना की तथा कुछ ग्रन्थ भी लिखे। 20 फरवरी, 1920 को जब वे स्वदेश लौटे तो अमृतसर में जलियावाला बाग काण्ड हो चुका था और सारा राष्ट्र असन्तोष तथा क्षोभ की ज्वाला में जल रहा था। इसी बीच महात्मा गांधी ने सहयोग आन्दोलन आरम्भ किया तो लालाजी पूर्ण तत्परता के साथ इस संघर्ष में जुट गये। 1920 में ही वे कलकत्ता में आयोजित कांग्रेस के विशेष अधिवेशन के अध्यक्ष बने। उन दिनों सरकारी शिक्षण संस्थानों के बहिस्कार विदेशी वस्त्रों के त्याग, अदालतों का बहिष्कार, शराब के विरुद्ध आन्दोलन, चरखा और खादी का प्रचार जैसे कार्यक्रमों को कांग्रेस ने अपने हाथ में ले रखा था, जिसके कारण जनता में एक नई चेतना का प्रादुर्भाव हो चला था।

इसी समय लालाजी को कारावास का दण्ड मिला, किन्तु खराब स्वास्थ्य के कारण वे जल्दी ही रिहा कर दिये गये। 1924 में लालाजी कांग्रेस के अन्तर्गत ही बनी स्वराज्य पार्टी में शामिल हो गये और केन्द्रीय धारा सभा (सेंटल असेम्बली) के सदस्य चुन लिए गये। जब उनका पं0 मोतीलाल नेहरू से कतिपय राजनैतिक प्रश्नों पर मतभेद हो गया तो उन्होंने नेशनलिस्ट पार्टी का गठन किया और पुन: असेम्बली में पहुँच गये। अन्य विचारशील नेताओं की भाँति लालाजी भी कांग्रेस में दिन-प्रतिदिन बढऩे वाली मुस्लिम तुष्टीकरण की नीति से अप्रसन्नता अनुभव करते थे, इसलिए स्वामी श्रद्धानन्द तथा पं0 मदनमोहन मालवीय के सहयोग से उन्होंने हिन्दू महासभा के कार्य को आगे बढ़ाया। 1925 में उन्हें हिन्दू महासभा के कलकत्ता अधिवेशन का अध्यक्ष भी बनाया गया। ध्यातव्य है कि उन दिनों हिन्दू महासभा का कोई स्पष्ट राजनैतिक कार्यक्रम नहीं था और वह मुख्य रूप से हिन्दू संगठन, अछूतोद्धार, शुद्धि जैसे सामाजिक कार्यक्रमों में ही दिलचस्पी लेती थी। इसी कारण कांग्रेस से उसे थोड़ा भी विरोध नहीं था। यद्यपि संकीर्ण दृष्टि से अनेक राजनैतिक कर्मी लालाजी के हिन्दू महासभा में रुचि लेने से नाराज भी हुए किन्तु उन्होंने इसकी कभी परवाह नहीं की और वे अपने कर्तव्यपालन में ही लगे रहे।

जीवन संध्या 1928 में जब अंग्रेजों द्वारा नियुक्त साइमन भारत आया तो देश के नेताओं ने उसका बहिस्कार करने का निर्णय लिया। 30 अक्टूबर, 1928 को कमीशन लाहौर पहुँचा तो जनता के प्रबल प्रतिशोध को देखते हुए सरकार ने धारा 144 लगा दी। लालाजी के नेतृत्व में नगर के हजारों लोग कमीशन के सदस्यों को काले झण्डे दिखाने के लिए रेलवे स्टेशन पहुँचे और ‘साइमन वापस जाओÓ के नारों से आकाश गुँजा दिया। इस पर पुलिस को लाठीचार्ज का आदेश मिला। उसी समय अंग्रेज सार्जेंट साण्डर्स ने लालाजी की छाती पर लाठी का प्रहार किया जिससे उन्हें सख्त चोट पहुँची। उसी सायं लाहौर की एक विशाल जनसभा में एकत्रित जनता को सम्बोधित करते हुए नरकेसरी लालाजी ने गर्जना करते हुए कहा-मेरे शरीर पर पडी़ लाठी की प्रत्येक चोट अंग्रेजी साम्राज्य के कफन की कील का काम करेगी। इस दारुण प्रहात से आहत लालाजी ने अठारह दिन तक विषम ज्वर पीड़ा भोगकर 17 नवम्बर 1928 को परलोक के लिए प्रस्थान किया।

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About Vrndavan Brannon Parker

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About Vrndavan Brannon Parker

Vrndavan Brannon Parker is a Vedic researcher and historian. He has contributed essays to multiple publications for more than ten years and specializes in multi-media presentations with a focus on generating the interest and attention of the general public.

Vrndavan attended Vedic Gurukula schools for 10 years where he studied Sanskrit, Hindi, Puranas, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Indian History, Math and English. He attended Bhaktivedanta Gurukula in Vrindavan, India (Uttar Pradesh) from the age of 9 to 12. He received direct Harinam initiation from Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on Oct 23, 1977 and the Gayatri Mantra from Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaj of the Caitanya Saraswat Math in 1992.

His experiences from a young age imprinted him in such a way that he has always held a deep seated interest in and been connected to Indian history and culture. This led him to the inception of his own production and research company, Vedic Empire, founded in 1996.

Vrndavan has been researching and publicly presenting papers on Vedic historical and cross-cultural connections since 1996. His main focus has been on highlighting the similarities between the ancient cultures and civilizations around the world and defining their Vedic roots. Vrndavan stresses the importance of recognizing Hinduism as the world's longest and most contiguous ancient culture stemming from the Vedic scriptures. He has written numerous essays on the subject and firmly states his opinion that Hinduism and Vedic knowledge and practices hold the key to solving many global problems on a social, economic, ecological, political, and religious level.

Vrndavan dedicates his time to working with organizations that promote Vedic Dharma. He holds the distinction as a founding member of WAVES (World Association for Vedic Studies), VFA (Vedic Friends Association) and AVA, the Latin American branch of VFA. Vrndavan is also a Co-founder of Arise Arjuna Foundation and is a member of the Indian-American Friendship Council.

He is also the author of 'Orissa in the Crossfire-Kandhamal Burning', 'Harvest of Hate-Kandhamal in Crossfire' and the soon to be published 'The Serpent, the Eagle, the Lion and the Disc'.

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Matho Mathis || Enter The World Of Binaries: Color and Speed Of Light - Vedic Science

2011-09-28T07:24:00.000-07:00

Matho Mathis || Enter The World Of Binaries: Color and Speed Of Light - Vedic Science: Vedic science is a great treasure of knowledge in the form of Vedas, Upanishads & Samhitas. Ancient Rishis proved the various scientific the...

Color and Speed Of Light - Vedic Science

Vedic science is a great treasure of knowledge in the form of Vedas, Upanishads & Samhitas. Ancient Rishis proved the various scientific theories based on Vedic science; since more than thousands of year ago.

In Vedic literature, there are so many verses that explain the theory of universe, Astrology, Engineering, Medicine, Telegraphy, Metallurgy, Chemistry and Life sciences. We should regretful to great rishis who founded a root of knowledge in form of Vedas & Upanishads and scattered this knowledge across the world.

Religion and science both search for logical reasons for the existence of divine universe & life. The Sanskrit meaning of word Veda is “unite - that which is given " OR UNIFICATION, and Rig means logic or reason, hence Rig-Veda stands for UNIFICATION BY LOGIC. All verses of Rig Veda are given in logical manner. Each verse is a complete holistic theorem in itself and contains a numerical solution to the mathematical theorem imbedded in the descriptive wording .

In Rig veda, light is explained as a sorce of energy or source of our life. Nature of light as a wave or as a particle was not come into picture till late into the modern age, but in Rig Veda it is clearly mentioned that

"Seven horses draw the chariot of the sun, tied by snakes". Rig-veda 5. 45. 9

Above poetic verse speaks about the nature of light as being composed of 7 rays and the snake symbolizes it's curved path. Now, these colors are actually described as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, Indigo and violet in the yoga sutras and the Vedic Upanishads.

These colors was not discovered in western science till

Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 ) experimented to split light into it's 7 colors by a prism.

Speed of light according to Rig-Veda:

The speed of light, (defined as 299 792 458metres/s) is a universal constant which was often believed to be impossible to breach. However it is now known that the speed of light is approximately 41.7 miles an hour (sometimes inaccurately rounded up to 42 m/h).The simplest and most successful attempt to measure the speed of light was performed by Max Planck, Different physicists have tried to measure the speed of light throughout history.

Galileo attempted to measure the speed of light in the seventeenth century. An early experiment to measure the speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer, a Danish physicist, in 1676. Rømer calculated that light takes about 22 minutes to traverse the diameter of Earth's orbit. Unfortunately, its size was not known at that time. If Ole had known the diameter of the Earth's orbit, he would have calculated a speed of 227,000,000 m/s.

In Rigveda, following sloka’s state about the speed of light which is nearly about of modern value of 186,282.397 miles / seconds:

“Yojananam Dwe Dwe Shate Dwe Cha Yojane

Aken Nimishardhena Krammana Namostute” (Rig-veda I,50-4)

In the verse Sun light speed is measured with the help of units called Yojan & Nimesha.This verse explain that sunlight moves 2202 Yojans in Half Nimish.

Taranir Vishvadarshato Jyotishkrdasi Surya |

Vishvamaa Bhaasirochanam ||

Meaning:

Oh Sun! (You) overwhelm all in speed, visible to all, source of light. (You) shine pervading the Universe.

Rigvedic commentary, Sayanacarya who was a minister in the court of Bukka of the great Vijayanagar Empire of Karnataka in South India (in early 14th century) says:

Tatha Ca Smaryate Yojananam. Sahasre Dve Dve Sate Dve Ca Yojane

Ekena Nimishardhena Kramaman.

Meaning :

“It is remembered here that Sun (light) traverses 2,202 yojanas in half a nimisha”

Sayanacarya’s Calculation for Speed of light (The commentary on the Rig-veda by Sayana (c. 13 15-1387), a minister and scholar par excellence in the court of King Bukka I of the Vijayanagar Empire in South India):

In the Vedas, Yojana is a unit of distance and Nimisha is a unit of time.

Distance travelled =2202 Yojanas

1 Yojana = 9 miles, 110 Yards =21,144.705 miles (Apprx)

Time taken 1/2 nimesha = 0.114286 seconds(Apprx)

Speed of light= 185,016.169 miles / seconds.

Modern Value= 186,282.397 miles / seconds.

Modern science claims the speed of light to be aproximately 186,282.397 miles / seconds

This Sukta is attributed to the son of Kanva Maharshi and is prescribed for use in two different occasions - in Suryeshti sacrifice (a ritual to please the Sun God)

Unit of Time: Nimesa

Nimesa Definition as per Moksha dharma parva of Shanti Parva in Mahabharata

15 Nimisha = 1 Kastha

30 Kashta = 1 Kala

30.3 Kala = 1 Muhurta

30 Muhurtas = 1 Diva-Ratri (Day-Night) One Day-Night = 24 hours

Unit of Distance: Yojana

Yojana Definition as per “Vishnu Purana”

10 ParamAnus = 1 Parasúkshma

10 Parasúkshmas = 1 Trasarenu

10 Trasarenus = 1 Mahírajas 10 Mahírajas= 1 Bálágra 10 Bálágra = 1 Likhsha 10 Likhsha= 1 Yuka 1o Yukas = 1 Yavodara 10 Yavodaras = 1 Yava 10 Yava = 1 Angula

6 fingers = 1 Pada

2 Padas = 1 Vitasti

2 Vitasti = 1 Hasta

4 Hastas = a Dhanu, a Danda, or pauruSa (a man’s height), or 2 Nárikás = 6 feet

2000 Dhanus = 1 Gavyuti = 12000 feet

4 Gavyutis = 1 Yojana = 9.09 miles

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Color and speed of light || continued

It says sun light travels 2202 Yojanas in a half Nimesa. Yojana is an ancient unit of length. Arthasastra defines it as being equal to 8,000 dhanus, which is equivalent to 9 miles. A nimesa is an ancient unit of time that is equal to 16/75 seconds.

Matho Mathis || Enter The World Of Binaries: Taj Mahal =Tejo Mahalaya ? : Truth Behind Taj Maha...

2011-09-28T07:15:00.000-07:00

Matho Mathis || Enter The World Of Binaries: Taj Mahal =Tejo Mahalaya ? : Truth Behind Taj Maha...: The world famous Tajmahal is a glaring instance. For all the time, money and energy that people over the world spend in visiting the Tajmaha...

Taj Mahal =Tejo Mahalaya ? : Truth Behind Taj Mahal - Part 1

The world famous Tajmahal is a glaring instance. For all the time, money and energy that people over the world spend in visiting the Tajmahal, they are dished out of concoction. Contrary to what visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation moghul emperor Shahjahan commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur.

The Tajmahal, should therefore, be viewed as a temple palace and not as a tomb. That makes a vast difference. You miss the details of its size, grandeur, majesty and beauty when you take it to be a mere tomb. When told that you are visiting a temple palace you wont fail to notice its annexes, ruined defensive walls, hillocks, moats, cascades, fountains, majestic garden, hundreds of rooms archaded verendahs, terraces, multi stored towers, secret sealed chambers, guest rooms, stables, the trident (Trishul) pinnacle on the dome and the sacred, esoteric Hindu letter "OM" carved on the exterior of the wall of the sanctum sanctum now occupied by the cenotaphs.

Let us start with a some points and try to cover as much as possible in subsequent chapters/articles:

NAME:

1. The term Tajmahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle even in Aurangzeb's time. The attempt to explain it away as Taj-i-mahal.

2. The ending "Mahal"is never muslim because in none of the muslim countries around the world from Afghanistan to Algeria is there a building known as "Mahal".

3. The unusual explanation of the term Tajmahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal, who is buried in it, is illogical in at least two respects viz., firstly her name was never Mumtaj Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani and secondly one cannot omit the first three letters "Mum" from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name of the building.

4. Since the lady's name was Mumtaz (ending with 'Z') the name of the building derived from her should have been Taz Mahal, if at all, and not Taj (spelled with a 'J').

5. Several European visitors of Shahjahan's time allude to the building as Taj-e-Mahal is almost the correct tradition, age old Sanskrit name Tej-o-Mahalaya, signifying a Shiva temple. Contrarily Shahjahan and Aurangzeb scrupulously avoid using the Sanskrit term and call it just a holy grave.

6. The tomb should be understood to signify NOT A BUILDING but only the grave or cenotaph inside it. This would help people to realize that all dead muslim courtiers and royalty including Humayun, Akbar, Mumtaz, Etmad-ud-Daula and Safdarjang have been buried in capture Hindu mansions and temples.

7. Moreover, if the Taj is believed to be a burial place, how can the term Mahal, i.e., mansion apply to it?

8. Since the term Taj Mahal does not occur in mogul courts it is absurd to search for any mogul explanation for it. Both its components namely, 'Taj' and' Mahal' are of Sanskrit origin.

TEMPLE TRADITION:

9. The term Taj Mahal is a corrupt form of the sanskrit term Tejo Mahalay signifying a Shiva Temple. Agreshwar Mahadev i.e., The Lord of Agra was consecrated in it.

10.The tradition of removing the shoes before climbing the marble platform originates from pre Shahjahan times when the Taj was a Shiva Temple. Had the Taj originated as a tomb, shoes need not have to be removed because shoes are a necessity in a cemetery.

11. Visitors may notice that the base slab of the cenotaph is the marble basement in plain white while its superstructure and the other three cenotaphs on the two floors are covered with inlaid creeper designs. This indicates that the marble pedestal of the Shiva idol is still in place and Mumtaz's cenotaphs are fake?

12. The pitchers carved inside the upper border of the marble lattice plus those mounted on it number 108-a number sacred in Hindu Temple tradition.

13. There are persons who are connected with the repair and the maintenance of the Taj who have seen the ancient sacred Shiva Linga and other idols sealed in the thick walls and in chambers in the secret, sealed red stone stories below the marble basement. The Archaeological Survey of India is keeping discretely, politely and diplomatically silent about it to the point of dereliction of its own duty to probe into hidden historical evidence.

14.In India there are 12 Jyotirlingas i.e., the outstanding Shiva Temples. The Tejo mahalaya alias The Tajmahal appears to be one of them known as Nagnatheshwar since its parapet is girdled with Naga, i.e., Cobra figures. Ever since Shahjahan's capture of it the sacred temple has lost its Hindudom.

15. The famous Hindu treatise on architecture titled Vishwakarma Vastushastra mentions the 'Tej-Linga' amongst the Shivalingas i.e., the stone emblems of Lord Shiva, the Hindu deity. Such a Tej Linga was consecrated in the Taj Mahal, hence the term Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya.

16. Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient center of Shiva worship. Its orthodox residents have through ages continued the tradition of worshiping at five Shiva shrines before taking the last meal every night especially during the month of Shravan. During the last few centuries the residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent Shiva temples viz., Balkeshwar, Prithvinath, Manakameshwar and Rajarajeshwar. They had lost track of the fifth Shiva deity which their forefathers worshipped. Apparently the fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev Nagnatheshwar i.e., The Lord Great God of Agra, The Deity of the King of Cobras, consecrated in the Tejo mahalay alias Tajmahal.

17. The people who dominate the Agra region are Jats. Their name of Shiva is Tejaji. The Jat special issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28,1971) mentions that the Jats have the Teja Mandirs i.e., Teja Temples. This is because Teja-Linga is among the several names of the Shiva Lingas. From this it is apparent that the Taj - Mahal is Tejo - Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.

More To Be Continued...

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Was the Mughal Emperor, Akbar Really Great ??!! Find out....!!

2011-09-19T10:52:00.001-07:00

Was the Mughal Emperor, Akbar Really Great??!! Find out....!!

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Introduction: History of India has witnessed innumerable invasions by hoards of armed marauders coming in from the west, perhaps attracted to the riches and wealth India then possessed. Apart from looting of wealth and destruction of property, the 'aliens' who remained, who committed grave atrocities against the local populace, and themselves, wallowing in immoral and unethical behaviour; except for one, it is said, Akbar.

Akbar, the third generation Moghal emperor who lived from 1542-1605 A.D, has been extolled as the greatest of all Moghals, righteous in deed and noble in character. He is praised to be the only and truly secular Emperor of the times, very caring and protective of his subjects. However, assessment and analysis of contemporary notings expose this unjustified edification of Akbar and provides a remarkably different picture of Akbar's personality.

The following is not a comprehensive report on Akbar's reign, but an attempt to provide a summary to the reader, on the real nature of Akbar based on contemporary records. It is hoped that the reader will make a judgement on Akbar's "greatness" based on the information provided below.

Akbar's Ancestors: Akbar's ancestors were barbarous and vicious, and so were his descendants like Aurangzeb and others' down the line. Akbar was born and brought up in a illiterate and foul atmosphere characterized by excessive drinking, womanizing and drug addiction. Vincent Smith in "Akbar - The Great Mogul" (p.294) writes, " Intemperance was the besetting sin of the Timuroid royal family, as it was of many other muslim ruling houses. Babur (was) an elegant toper ... Humayun made himself stupid with opium ... Akbar permitted himself the practices of both vices .. Akbar's two sons died in early manhood from chronic alcoholism, and their elder brother was saved from the same fate by a strong constitution, and not by virtue." With such an atmosphere to nourish Akbar's thoughts, it is rather unsual for Akbar to become "divine incarnate"!

Describing the demoniac pleasure which Babur used to derive by raising towers of heads of people he used to slaughter, Col. Tod writes that after defeating Rana Sanga at Fatehpur Sikri "triumphal pyriamids were raised of the heads of the slain, and on a hillock which overlooked the field of the battle, a tower of skulls was erected and the conquerer Babur assumed the title of Ghazi." (p.246). Akbar seems to have preserved this "great" legacy of erecting minarets as is obvious from the accounts of battles he fought.

Humayun, the son of Babar, was even more degenerate and cruel than his father. After repeated battles, Humayum captured his elder brother Kamran and subjected the latter to brutal torture. A detailed account is left by Humayun's servant Jauhar and is quoted by Smith (p.20), which says, " .. (Humayun) had little concerns for his brother's sufferings .. One of the men was sitting on Kamran's knees. He was pulled out of the tent and a lancet was thrust into his eyes .. Some lemon juice and salt was put into his eyes .. After sometime he was put on horseback." One can imagine the cruelty and torture that Humayun was capable of inflicting on others when he subjected to his own brother to such atrocities. Humayun was also a slave to opium habit, engaged in excessive alcohol consumption and a lecherous degenarate when it came to women (Shelat, p.27). He is also known to have married a 14 year old Hamida Begum by force. The cruelties perpetrated by of Akbar's descendants (Jehangir, Shahjahan, Aurangzeb, etc.) are not entirely different from those of his ancestors. Having brought up in the company and under the guidance of a lineage of drug addicts, drunkards and sadists, it is rather anamalous that Akbar held such a gentle and noble character. Even assuming that he fancied nobility, it is amazing that Akbar let his comtemporaries and Generals, like Peer Mohammad, loot and rape the helpless citizenry that he was ruling! It would however be interesting to observe the incidents in Akbar's reign and evaluate his character.

Akbar's (Immoral) Character and Nature: Akbar possessed a inordinate lust for women, just like his ancestors and predecessors. One of Akbar's motives during his wars of aggression against various rulers was to appropriate their women, daughters and sisters. The Rajput women of Chittor prefered "Jauhar" (immolation) than to be captured and disrespectfully treated as servants and prostitutes in Akbar's harem. On his licentous relations with women, Smith refers to a contemporary Jesuits testimony (p.81) thus, "... Akbar habitually drank hard. The good father had boldly dared to reprove the emperor sharply for his licentous relations with women. Akbar instead of resenting the priests audacity, blushingly excused himself." Both drinking and enganging in debauched sexual activities was inherited by Akbar from his ancestors.

Fazl in Ain-i-Akbari (Blochmann,V.1,p.276), ".. His majesty has established a wine shop near the palace ... The prostitues of the realm collected at the shop could scarcely be counter, so large was their number .. The dancing girls used to be taken home by the courtiers. If any well known courtier wanted to have a virgin they should first have His Majesty's [Akbar's] permission. In the same way, boys prostituted themselves, and drunkeness and ignorance soon lead to bloodshed ... His Majesty [Akbar] himself called some of the prostitutes and asked them who had deprived them of their virginity?" This was the state of affairs during Akbar's rule, where alcoholism, sodomy, prostitution and murderous assaults were permitted by the king himself. The conditions of the civic life during Akbar's life is shocking!

Sodomy was a precious service of Akbar's own family. Babur, Akbar's grandfather, has given a lengthy description of this sodomic infatuation for a male sweetheart. Humayun was no different. Though perhaps Akbar did not engage in sodomy, he "allowed" it to be practiced by his servants, courtiers and sycophats. Abul Fazal in Ain-e-Akbari provides accounts of some such acts which are too disgusting to even mention. Such perverse gratification was prevelant during the Moghal rule, and in Akbar's times.

That Akbar remained monogamous throughout his life is indeed history falsified myth. Again quoting V.Smith (pp.47),".. Akbar, throughout his life, allowed himself ample latitude in the matter of wives and concubines!" and further, " Akbar had introduced a whole host of Hindu the daughters of eminent Hindu Rajah's into his harem." (pp.212). An account of how the Jaipur rulers were coerced into sending their daughters to the Mogul harem is found in Dr. Srivastava's book Akbar - The Mogul (Vol.1). Shelat notes (p.90)," (after the "Jauhar" that followed the killing of Rani Durgawati) the two women left alive, Kamalavati (sister of Rani Durgawati) and the daughter of the Raja of Purangad (daughter-in-law of the deceased queen) were sent to Agra to enter Akbar's harem." It should also be observed that adimittance into Akbar's harem was available mainly to virgins and others' were "disqualified". Inspite of such disgusting and lewd personal affairs, inducting women of abducted or killed Hindu warriors into his harem as slaves and prostitutes, it is bewildering that Akbar is hailed as a righteous and noble emperor.

The personality and nature of Akbar has been nicely summed up by the Editor of Father Monserrate's Commentarius. The editor's introduction states, "In the long line of Indian soverigns, the towering personalities of Ashoka and Akbar (because of his dread) stand high above the rest... Akbar's greed for conquest and glory and his lack of sincerity form a marked contrast to Ashoka's paternal rule, genuine self-control and spiritual ambition. Akbar's wars were those of a true descendent of Timur, and had all the gruesome associations which this fact implies."

"The old notion that Akbar's was a near approximation to Plato's philosopher king has been dissipated by modern resarches. His character with its mixture of ambition and cunning has now been laid bare. He has been rightly compared to a pike in a pond preying upon his weaker neighbours .. Akbar was unable to give up his polygamous habits, for no importance needs to be attached to the bazaar gossip of the time that he once intended to distribute his wives among his grandees."

Whole of India was reduced to a brothel during the Moghal rule and Akbar, one of the Emperors, is being glorified as one of the patrons of the vast brothel. The above instances may suffice to convince the impartial reader that Akbar's whole career was a saga of uninhibited licentiousness backed by the royal brute.

Akbar's Barbarites: Glancing at the events in the reign of Akbar, it is a compelling deduction that he was no less cruel a tyrant than any of his ancestors. With his trecherous nature and the unlimited power than he wielded over a vast region qualifies him to be one of the foremost tyrants and sadists in India's history, or perhaps, even world history.

Vincent Smith (p.50) says that in a privately executing Kamran's son [namely, Akbar's own cousin] at Gwalior in 1565, ".. Akbar set an evil example, initiated on a large scale by his descendents Shahjahan and Aurangzeb." This does not cause a serious alarm knowing the percious heritage of duplicity and trechery handed down to Akbar by his ancestors. Generations of martial races (Rajputs) were cut off by his (Akbar) sword ... he was long ranked with Shahbuddin and Alla (Allauddin) and other instruments of destruction, and with every just claim; and like these he constructed a Mumbar (a pulpit for islamic preachers) for the Koran from the altar of Eklingji (the deity of the Rajput warriors)." (Todd, p.259) Not only that he forcibly annihilated innumerable humans, he also had no respect for temples and deities and willingly indulged in destruction of such places of worship.

That Akbar refused to strike a helpless and injured prisoner seems to be utterly false. At an tender age of 14, Akbar slashed the neck of his Hindu adversary Hemu brought before him unconcious and bleeding. After the fateful battle of Panipat, the unconcious Hemu was brought before Akbar who smote Hemu on his neck with his scimitar, and in Akbar's presence, the bystanders also plunged their swords into the bleeding corpse. Hemu's head was sent to Kabul and his trunk was gibbeted at one of the gates of Delhi. After victorious forces pushing south from Panipat after that great victory (at Panipat), writes Smith (pp.29), "marched straight into Delhi, which opened its gates to Akbar, who made his entry in state. Agra was also passed into his possession. In accordance with the ghastly custom of the times, a tower was built with the heads of the slain. Immense treasures were taken with the family of Hemu whose aged father was executed." This "tower of heads" tradition and ceremony was religuously preserved by the "magnanimous" Akbar.

After the capture of Chittor, says Smith (p.64), ".. Akbar exasperated by the obstinate resistance offered to his arms, treated the town and garrison with merciless severity. The 8000 strong Rajput garrison having been zealously helped during the seige by 40,000 peasants, the emperor ordered a general massacre which resulted in the death of of 30,000 (even thought the struggle was over). Many were made prisoners." Such terrible was his humanitarian outlook as towards his defeated adverseries. L.M. Shelat writes more on this incident that (pp.105), "neither the temples nor the towers escaped the vandalism of the invaders". There were events where intolerant Akbar ordered the excision of one man's tongue, trampling opponents to death by elephants and other private or informal executions and assacinations. After a victorious battle at Ahemadabad, in accordance with the gruesome custom at the times, a pyramid was built with the heads of the rebels, more than 2000 in number. At one time, enraged on seeing a hapless lamplighter coiled up near his couch, Akbar order that the servant be shreded into thousand pieces! What else can one expect the barbaric and unscrupulous Akbar?

Akbar's reign of horrid cruelties includes the following incident which must be considered the jewel in the crown of horrid pastimes. Vincent Smith writes (pp.56) "An extraordinary incident which occured in April while the royal camp was at Thanesar, the famous Hindu place of pilgrimage to the north of Delhi, throws a rather unpleasant light on Akbar's character... The Sanyasins assembled at the holy tank were divided into two parties, called the Kurs and Puris. The leader of the latter complained to the King that that the Kurs had unjustly occupied the accustomed sitting place of the Puris who were thus debarred from collecting the pilgrims' alms." They were asked to decide the issue by mortal combat. They were drawn up on either side with their arms drawn. In the fight that ensued the combatants used swords, bows, arrows and stones. "Akbar seeing that the Puris were outnumbered gave a signal to some of his savage followers to help the weaker party." In this fight between the two Hindu sanyasin sects Akbar saw to it that both were ultimately annihilated by his own fierce soilders. The chronicler unctuously adds that Akbar was highly delighted with this sport. How can an emperor, so noble and great, can have a sadist mind that relishes and obtains "delight" by ordaining and watching two Hindu sanyansin sects being slaughtered?

Killing and massacring others' was regarded as a pastime and diversion by a bereaved Akbar. The chronicler Ferishta notes (Briggs, p.171), "Prince Murad Mirza falling dangerously ill (May 1599) was buried at Shapoor. The corpse was afterwards removed to Agra, and laid by the side of Humayun, the prince's grandfather. The kings grief for the death of his son increased his desire for the conquering the Deccan, as a means of diverting the mind." Could there exist a more sinister kind of sadism?

Akbar's cruelty towards the Hindu women kidnapped and shut up in his harem were stagerring and his much vaunted marraiges said to have been contracted for communal integration and harmony were nothing but outrageous kidnappings brought about with the force of arms. This is apparent from Akbar's marriage to Raja Bharmal's daughter that occured at Deosa "when people Deosa and other places on Akbar's route fled away on his approach." (Shrivastava, pp.63). Why would the people flee in terror if at all Akbar was "visiting" Raja Bharmal and that the marraige was congenial and in consent with the bride's party? Far from abolishing the practice of Sati, Akbar invited the Jesuit priests to watch the "considerble fun" and supporting it by his weighty judgement and explicit approbation. (Monserrate's Commentary, pp.61).

Many more horried facts on Akbar's rule can be added. Even the infamous tax, which supposedly was abolished by Akbar, was continually being collected in Akbar's reign. A number of persons were secretly executed on Akbar's orders and a list of such people is provided by Vincent Smith. Akbar's reign was nothing but terror, torture and tyranny for his subjects and courtiers as is obvious from the quoted events. There are numerous other occasions and recorded events from Akbar's life that personifies him as a devil incarnate, contrary to what has been propagated.

Akbar's Fanaticism: Akbar was born a muslim, lived like a muslim and died as a muslim; that too a very fanatic one. Histories have dubbed him as a true believer who accomplished a synthesis of the best principles of all religions. The infamous Jiziya tax, which is special tax exaction from the Hindus, was never abolished by Akbar. Time and time again different people had approached seeking exemption from Jiziya. Everytime the exemption was ostensibly issued, but never was actually implemented. Throughout Akbar's reign, temples used to razed to the ground or misappropriated as mosques and cows were slaughtered in them, as happened in the battle at Nagarkot. No symbol of Hindu origin and design was spared from the iconoclastic wrath of Akbar.

Xavier, a Jesuit in Akbar's court, gives a typical instance of Akbar's perfidy in making people drink water in which his feet had been washed. Xavier writes, says Smith (p.189), Akbar posed " as a Prophet, wishing it to be understood that he works miracles through healing the sick by means of the water in which he washed the feet." Badauni says that this [the above] special type of humiliation was reserved by Akbar only for Hindus. Says Badayuni, "... if other than Hindus came, and wished to become disciples at any sacrifice, His Majesty reproved them." Where was his broadminded and tolerant nature then?

Yet another Xavier's letter (MacLagan, p.57 and Du Jarric, p.90) states, "The Christian fathers got little opportunity of holding religious discussions with Akbar or influencing him in favour of Christianity ...Akbar silenced Xavier by telling him that the freedom accorded to him in preaching his religion was itself a great service." Akbar was not at all a tolerant of other religious faiths.

Akbar had filled both his hands with 50 gold coins when Badayuni expressed his strong desire to take part in a "holy war" (massacring Hindus) and "dye these black moustachois and beard in (hindu) blood through loyalty to Your Majesty's person" (sic). Akbar far from dispproving of Badayuni's despicable desire, gladly presented him with a decent premium.

The Hindus were treated as thirdclass citizens in Akbar's reign is evident from the Ain-i-Akbari. Abul Fazal writes, "... he [Husayn Khan, Akbar's governer at Lahore] ordered the Hindus as unbelievers to wear a patch (Tukra) near the shoulders, and thus got the nick name of Tukriya (patcher)." (Bochmann., p.403) The patch was obviously to mark the "unbelievers" out as pariahs for providing special degrading treatment.

The holy Hindu cities of Prayag and Banaras, writes Vincent Smith (p.58), were plundered by Akbar because their residents were rash enough to close their gates! No wonder Prayag of today has no ancient monuments -- whatever remain are a rubble! It is rather obvious that Akbar had no respect and reverance for cities considered holy by Hindus, let alone esteem for human life and property. Also, it is evident from this instance that Akbar's subjects were horrified and scared upon the arrival of their king into their city. If at all Akbar was so magnanimous, why then did not the people come forward and greet him?

Monserrate, a contemporary of Akbar, writes (p.27), "the religious zeal of the Musalmans has destroyed all the idol temples which used to be numerous. In place of Hindu temples, countless tombs and little shrines of wicked and worthless Musalmans have been erected in which these men are worshipped with vain superstition as though they were saints." Not only did the muslims destroy the idols, but usurped the existing temples and converted them into tombs of insignificant people.

Akbar has neither any love or compassion for Hindus as is apparent from the above examples. Hindus were openly despised and contemptously treated under Akbar's fanatical rule as under any other rule. Akbar was only one of the many links of the despotic and cruel Moghal rule in India, and enforced the tradition of his forefathers with sincerity and equal ruthlessness.

Akbar's (mal) Administration: Akbar was so penurious and retentive of money that .." he considered himself to be heir of all his subjects, and ruthlessly seized the property of every deceased whose family had to make a fresh start ... Akbar was a hard headed man of business, not a sentimental philanthropist, and his whole policy was directed principally to the aquisition of power and riches. All the arrangements about Jagirs, branding (horses) etc., were devised for the one purpose namely, the enhancement of the power, glory and riches of the crown." (Smith, p.263). The latter statement indicates what a marvellous and altruist administrator Akbar was!

Akbar's lawless and rapacious rule also led to horrible famines -- Delhi was devastated and the mortality was enormous. Gujrat, one of the richest provinces in India, suffered severly for 6 months in 1573-74. Smith writes, "The famine which began in 1595 and lasted three or four years until 1598 equalled in its horrors the accession year and excelled the visitation by reason of its longer duration. Inundation and epidemics occasionally marred Akbar's reign." And Akbar is said to have done nothing to ameliorate the sufferings of the masses, instead accumulated all the wealth he had amassed into forts and palaces.

Refering to the Gujarat famine, Dr. Shrivastava (p.169) writes, "... the famine was not caused by drought or the failure of seasonal rains, but was due to the destruction wrought by prolonged wars and rebellions, constant marching and counter-marching of troops, and killing men on a large scale, and the breakdown of admnistrative machinary and the economic system ... The mortality rate was so high that on an average 100 cart-loads of dead bodies were taken out for burial in the city of Ahemadabad alone .."

Smith asserts that epidemics and inundiation often marred Akbar's reign, and at the time of such distress, writes Badayuni (Blochmann, p.391), parents were allowed to sell their children. Utter lawlessness and stately permissions to carry out immoral activities seem to the norm during Akbar's reign. Deadly pestilence and frightful famine appeared on the scene from time to time and lasted for years together, due to Akbar's callous and inadequate administrative capacities.

Noble in character that Akbar was that his generals and courtiers, even including his son Jehangir, revolted against him. Interminable wars and unending rebellions were continuing somewhere or the other in his so-called peaceful reign. Dr. Shrivastava nicely summarizes (p.381) , "The vast empire hardly ever enjoyed complete immunity from some kind of disturbance and rebellion. Some chief or the other taking advantage of slackness of administration, lack of vigillance ... or the occurance of a natural calamity raised its head in revolt. It is tedious to recount cases of civil disturbance.". On an occasion of an accident, rumours spread about the seriousness of the injury and possibly the death of Akbar which caused revolts and rebellions in distant parts of the country, and many paraganas were plundered by turbulent people!

Had Akbar been do generous as he is often made out to be and his reign so just and kind, peace and contentment should have prevailed during his lifetime and upon his death, the subjects should have looked upon his children with devotion love and respect. However, due to nature of Akbar's rapacious rule, everyone from princes to paupers wished to overthrow Akbar.

The (usurped) Buildings: With constant famines, wars and revolts occuring the Akbar's era, where then did he get the time and money to construct buildings of magnificence and grandeur, like the Fort at Agra ? Akbar is said to have built several forts and palaces and founded many townships. However, as seen earlier, Akbar simply renamed pre-existing townships of Hindu origin and claimed to have been built by himself.

One such unfortunate township is that of Fatehpur Sikri. It has a massive defensive wall around it, enclosing redstone gateways and a majestic palace complex, explicitly in the Rajput style. It is the creation of these buildings and gateways that are accredited to Akbar. Fatehpur Sikri (or Fatehpur/Sikri) was an ancient independent principality before its occupation by the muslims. Testifying to this Todd says (p.240), " [Rana Sangram Singh] came to the Mewar throne in 1509 A.D. Eighty thousand horses, seven Rajas of the highest rank, nine Raos and 104 cheiftains, bearing the titles of Rawal and Rawut with 500 elephants follwed him into the field (against Babur). The princess of Marwar and Amber did him homage, and the Raos of Gwalior, Ajmer, *Sikri* ... served him as tributaries .." The above passage makes it clear that even during the reign of Akbar's grandfather Babur, Sikri was ruled by a "Rao", who owed allegiance to Rana Sangram Singh of Mewar. Another reference to Fatehpur Sikri is of the year 1405 (150 years before Akbar) when Ikbal Khan was killed and his head was sent to Fatehpur (E&D, p.40). Also it is stated (E&D, p.44) that Khizr Khan (the founder of Sayyad dynasty, 1500 A.D.) remained in *Fatehpur* and did not go to Delhi. Even Babur has stated that Agra and *Sikri* housed several palaces equally magnificent (E&D, p.223). These 15th century references will, for now, suffice to prove the existence of Fatehpur Sikri before even Akbar was born, and that the beautiful buildings were not built by Akbar.

The Red Fort of Agra, also originally of Rajput design and construction, was usurped by Akbar. However, an account says that Akbar demolished the fort in 1565, apparently for no reason, and constructed another in its place. Surprisingly, in 1566, Adham Khan was punished by being thrown down from the second storey of the royal apartments inside the fort! Keene (Handbook for Visitor's to Agra and Its Neighbourhood) quotes this rumour and casts a very pertinent doubt that is the fort was demolished in 1565, how is it possible for Akbar to stay there in 1566 and a man was flung down from the second story? Keene adds that even the foundation of the extensive fort could not have been complete within three years. Neither did Akbar demolish the fort, nor did he rebuild an entire structure. He simply comandeered the fort from its original inhabitants, and claimed to have been built by him.

Similarly, the palaces and mansions in Ajmer, Allahabad, Manoharpur and other townships were simply usurped by Akbar. He never ordered engineers and architects to build to build magnificent buildings. Testifying to this, Monserrate in his Commentarius (p.16) remarks, ".. musalmans whose nature is indeed that of barbarians, take no interest in such things (erecting massive and ornate buildings and townships). Their chronicles being scanty and unreliable and full of old wives tales..." The fraudulent claims that Akbar designed and built these monuments are fabricated stories written by muslim chroniclers toadying for Akbar's favours.

Summary: Akbar's life has been full of acts of cruelties, barbaric behaviour, lust for women and wine. Considering the background in which Akbar was brought up and the environment in which he lived, it was indeed a surprise that he would develop qualities of compassion and love. Even assuming that such miracles can occur, unfortunately, Akbar's reign and state of administration contradict such an assumption and one is compelled to conclude that Akbar was no better a monarch than his forefathers.

Apparently from what was described above, Akbar has been given unecessary credit of being tolerant, secular and an altruist king. His sycophantic courtiers, including the court chroniclers, alloted to him all the praises he desired. Upon some inspection, the nine-gem story of Akbar's court becomes a sheer invention of court flatterers, who sought Akbar's favour for self-aggrandizement. Akbar's recalcitrance and callousless in the matters of caring for his subjects and domain, led to untold misery in the form of famines and pestilence. Wars, revolts and rebellions constantly erupted concluding is mass mayhem and killings.

There was no tranquility nor peace in Akbar's reign, let alone material and spiritual prosperity. That an avaricious miser Akbar was, it is rather unbelievable for him to have spent on creating expensive buildings and mansions. He was no better than other muslim monarchs, constantly on the prey to usurp power and pelf by whatever means they could. Morality and humanitarian principles took a back seat to self aggrandizement and lechery. Even after exercising numerous abductions, kidnappings, murders Akbar have been refered to as noble, compassionate and great. Even though religious fanatism never decreased in his reign, nay, was sponsored by Akbar himself, he has been termed as a secular, broadminded person. Such blunders of a serious magnitude have been committed by historians reconstructing and writing accounts on Indian history.

It may be worthwhile to research and present the "true" story of Akbar exposing to the world the true nature of Akbar and his personality. The Moghal rule in India was indeed very ruthless and full of difficult times for the people and the country; truly a "dark" age.

References:

Smith, V., "Akbar, The Great Mogul," 2nd Edition, S.Chand and Co., Delhi, 1958.

Todd, James.,"Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan," 2 volumes, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., London, 1957.

Shelat J.M, "Akbar," Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, 1964, Bombay.

Blochmann, H., "Ain-e-Akbari," translation of Abul Fazal's Persian text, 2nd Edition, Bibliotheca Indica Series, published by the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Briggs, John, "History of Mahomedan Power in India (till the year 1612 A.D)," Vol.2, Translated from the original Persian of Mahomad bin Ferishta, S. Dey Publication, Calcutta, 1966.

Shrivastava, A.L., "Akbar the Great," Vol.1, Shiv Lal Agarwal and Co., Agra.

Monserrate S.J., "The Commentary," translated from original Latin by J.S. Hoyland, annotated by S.Banerjee, Humphrey Milford, Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1922.

Blochmann H., "Ain-i-Akbari" edited by D.C Phillot, Calcutta, 1927.

Elliot and Dowson," Tuzak-i-Babari", Vol.4..

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अपराध में आरक्षण

2011-09-12T16:29:00.000-07:00

हिन्दी.हिन्दू.हिन्दुस्तान: रामदेव हमारे लिए एक खतरा : स्विस बेंक "रामदेव इफेक्ट "

2011-09-09T13:24:00.000-07:00

हिन्दी.हिन्दू.हिन्दुस्तान: रामदेव हमारे लिए एक खतरा : स्विस बेंक: स्विस बैंक एसोसिएशन और स्विस सरकार ने बताया है की स्विस बैंको में जमा धन में पन्द्रह लाख करोड डॉलर की भयंकर कमी आयी है .. और स्विस इको...

स्विस बैंक एसोसिएशन और स्विस सरकार ने बताया है की स्विस बैंको में जमा धन में पन्द्रह लाख करोड डॉलर की भयंकर कमी आयी है .. और स्विस इकोनोमी को खतरा पैदा हो गया है .. वहा के सारे अखबारों और टीवी डिबेट में इसे "रामदेव इफेक्ट " कहा जा रहा है .

स्विस बैंको में सबसे ज्यादा काला धन भारत से जमा होता है फिर चीन और रूस का नम्बर आता है .. बाबा रामदेव के अभियान से प्रभावित होकर चीन और रूस में भी काले धन के वापस लेन की जोरदार मुहीम चल रही है. चीन सरकार अरब देशो में हुई क्रांति से डरकर तुरंत ही एक कानून बना कर स्विस सरकार से सारा ब्योरा माँगा है और काले धन विदेश में जमा करने वालो को मृतुदंड देने की क़ानूनी बदलाव किया है, रूस में भी पिछले कई दिनों से लोग काले धन के खिलाफ लेनिन स्क्वायर पर प्रदर्शन कर रहे थे आखिरकार रुसी सरकार ने भी २ महीने में सारे काले धन को वापस लेन का देश की जनता को लिखित आश्वाशन दिया है .. रूस के सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता और रूस में काले धन के खिलाफ आन्दोलन चला रहे बदिमिर इलिनोइच ने बाबा रामदेव को प्रेरणाश्रोत मानकर अपना आन्दोलन चलाया ..

स्विटरज़रलैंड के लगभग सभी अखबारों जैसे स्विस टुडे, स्विस इलेस्ट्रेटेड, और टीवी चनेलो ने बाबा रामदेव को एक "खलनायक " के रूप में बता रहे है . इधर भारत में भी कांग्रेस पार्टी और सरकार उपरी मन से चाहे जो कुछ भी कहे लेकिन उसे भी अब जनता के जागरूक होने का डर सताने लगा है . कांग्रेस इस देश की टीवी चनेलो और अखबारों को तो खरीद सकती है लेकिन भारत में तेजी से उभर रही न्यू मीडिया [ वेब पोर्टल , फेसबुक , ट्विटर ] पर चाहकर भी वो प्रतिबन्ध नहीं लगा सकती .. एक सर्वे में पाया गया है की इन्टरनेट पर कांग्रेस के खिलाफ जोरदार अभियान चल रहा है और ये अभियान कोई पार्टी नहीं चला रही है बल्कि इस देश के जागरूक और शिछित युवा चला रहे है जिनका किसी भी राजनितिक पार्टी से कोई लेना देना नहीं है ..

हिन्दी.हिन्दू.हिन्दुस्तान: ऐसा था एतिहासिक टीपू सुल्तान

2011-09-09T13:05:00.000-07:00

हिन्दी.हिन्दू.हिन्दुस्तान: ऐसा था एतिहासिक टीपू सुल्तान: हैदर अली की म्रत्यु के बाद उसका पुत्र टीपू सुल्तान मैसूर की गद्दी पर बैठा। गद्दी पर बैठते ही टीपू ने मैसूर को मुस्लिम राज्य घोषित कर दिया। म...

ऐसा था एतिहासिक टीपू सुल्तान

हैदर अली की म्रत्यु के बाद उसका पुत्र टीपू सुल्तान मैसूर की गद्दी पर बैठा। गद्दी पर बैठते ही टीपू ने मैसूर को मुस्लिम राज्य घोषित कर दिया। मुस्लिम सुल्तानों की परम्परा के अनुसार टीपू ने एक आम दरबार में घोषणा की ---"मै सभी काफिरों को मुस्लमान बनाकर रहूंगा। "तुंरत ही उसने सभी हिन्दुओं को फरमान भी जारी कर दिया.उसने मैसूर के गाव- गाँव के मुस्लिम अधिकारियों के पास लिखित सूचना भिजवादी कि, "सभी हिन्दुओं को इस्लाम में दीक्षा दो। जो स्वेच्छा से मुसलमान न बने उसे बलपूर्वक मुसलमान बनाओ और जो पुरूष विरोध करे, उनका कत्ल करवा दो.उनकी स्त्रिओं को पकडकर उन्हें दासी बनाकर मुसलमानों में बाँट दो। "

इस्लामीकरण का यह तांडव टीपू ने इतनी तेजी से चलाया कि , पूरे हिंदू समाज में त्राहि त्राहि मच गई.इस्लामिक दानवों से बचने का कोई उपाय न देखकर धर्म रक्षा के विचार से हजारों हिंदू स्त्री पुरुषों ने अपने बच्चों सहित तुंगभद्रा आदि नदिओं में कूद कर जान दे दी। हजारों ने अग्नि में प्रवेश कर अपनी जान दे दी ,किंतु धर्म त्यागना स्वीकार नही किया।

टीपू सुलतान को हमारे इतिहास में एक प्रजावत्सल राजा के रूप में दर्शाया गया है।टीपू ने अपने राज्य में लगभग ५ लाख हिन्दुओ को जबरन मुस्लमान बनाया। लाखों की संख्या में कत्ल कराये। कुछ एतिहासिक तथ्य मेरे पास उपलब्ध जिनसे टीपू के दानवी ह्रदय का पता चलता है...............

टीपू के शब्दों में "यदि सारी दुनिया भी मुझे मिल जाए,तब भी में हिंदू मंदिरों को नष्ट करने से नही रुकुंगा."(फ्रीडम स्ट्रगल इन केरल)

"दी मैसूर गजेतिअर" में लिखा है"टीपू ने लगभग १००० मंदिरों का ध्वस्त किया। २२ मार्च १७२७ को टीपू ने अपने एक सेनानायक अब्दुल कादिर को एक पत्र likha ki,"१२००० से अधिक हिंदू मुस्लमान बना दिए गए।"

१४ दिसम्बर १७९० को अपने सेनानायकों को पात्र लिखा की,"में तुम्हारे पास मीर हुसैन के साथ दो अनुयाई भेज रहा हूँ उनके साथ तुम सभी हिन्दुओं को बंदी बना लेना और २० वर्ष से कम आयु वालों को कारागार में रख लेना और शेष सभी को पेड़ से लटकाकर वध कर देना"

टीपू ने अपनी तलवार पर भी खुदवाया था ,"मेरे मालिक मेरी सहायता कर कि, में संसार से काफिरों (गैर मुसलमान) को समाप्त कर दूँ"

ऐसे कितने और ऐतिहासिक तथ्य टीपू सुलतान को एक मतान्ध ,निर्दयी ,हिन्दुओं का संहारक साबित करते हैं क्या ये हिन्दू समाज के साथ अन्याय नही है कि, हिन्दुओं के हत्यारे को हिन्दू समाज के सामने ही एक वीर देशभक्त राजा बताया जाता है, अगर टीपू जैसे हत्यारे को भारत का आदर्श शासक बताया जायेगा तब तो सभी इस्लामिक आतंकवादी भारतीय इतिहास के ऐतिहासिक महान पुरुष बनेगे। वाह रे वाह भारत का धर्मनिरपेक्ष इतिहास।

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हिन्दी.हिन्दू.हिन्दुस्तान: सनातन धर्म का रक्षक महान सम्राट पुष्यमित्र शुंग

2011-09-09T13:03:00.000-07:00

हिन्दी.हिन्दू.हिन्दुस्तान: सनातन धर्म का रक्षक महान सम्राट पुष्यमित्र शुंग: मोर्य वंश के महान सम्राट चन्द्रगुप्त के पोत्र महान अशोक (?) ने कलिंग युद्ध के पश्चात् बौद्ध धर्म अपना लिया। अशोक अगर राजपाठ छोड़कर बौद्ध भिक...

सनातन धर्म का रक्षक महान सम्राट पुष्यमित्र शुंग

मोर्य वंश के महान सम्राट चन्द्रगुप्त के पोत्र महान अशोक (?) ने कलिंग युद्ध के पश्चात् बौद्ध धर्म अपना लिया। अशोक अगर राजपाठ छोड़कर बौद्ध भिक्षु बनकर धर्म प्रचार में लगता तब वह वास्तव में महान होता । परन्तु अशोक ने एक बौध सम्राट के रूप में लग भाग २० वर्ष तक शासन किया। अहिंसा का पथ अपनाते हुए उसने पूरे शासन तंत्र को बौद्ध धर्म के प्रचार व प्रसार में लगा दिया। अत्यधिक अहिंसा के प्रसार से भारत की वीर भूमि बौद्ध भिक्षुओ व बौद्ध मठों का गढ़ बन गई थी। उससे भी आगे जब मोर्य वंश का नौवा अन्तिम सम्राट व्रहद्रथ मगध की गद्दी पर बैठा ,तब उस समय तक आज का अफगानिस्तान, पंजाब व लगभग पूरा उत्तरी भारत बौद्ध बन चुका था । जब सिकंदर व सैल्युकस जैसे वीर भारत के वीरों से अपना मान मर्दन करा चुके थे, तब उसके लगभग ९० वर्ष पश्चात् जब भारत से बौद्ध धर्म की अहिंसात्मक निति के कारण वीर वृत्ति का लगभग ह्रास हो चुका था, ग्रीकों ने सिन्धु नदी को पार करने का साहस दिखा दिया।

सम्राट व्रहद्रथ के शासनकाल में ग्रीक शासक मिनिंदर जिसको बौद्ध साहित्य में मिलिंद कहा गया है ,ने भारत वर्ष पर आक्रमण की योजना बनाई। मिनिंदर ने सबसे पहले बौद्ध धर्म के धर्म गुरुओं से संपर्क साधा,और उनसे कहा कि अगर आप भारत विजय में मेरा साथ दें तो में भारत विजय के पश्चात् में बौद्ध धर्म स्वीकार कर लूँगा। बौद्ध गुरुओं ने राष्ट्र द्रोह किया तथा भारत पर आक्रमण के लिए एक विदेशी शासक का साथ दिया।

सीमा पर स्थित बौद्ध मठ राष्ट्रद्रोह के अड्डे बन गए। बोद्ध भिक्षुओ का वेश धरकर मिनिंदर के सैनिक मठों में आकर रहने लगे। हजारों मठों में सैनिकों के साथ साथ हथियार भी छुपा दिए गए।

दूसरी तरफ़ सम्राट व्रहद्रथ की सेना का एक वीर सैनिक पुष्यमित्र शुंग अपनी वीरता व साहस के कारण मगध कि सेना का सेनापति बन चुका था । बौद्ध मठों में विदेशी सैनिको का आगमन उसकी नजरों से नही छुपा । पुष्यमित्र ने सम्राट से मठों कि तलाशी की आज्ञा मांगी। परंतु बौद्ध सम्राट वृहद्रथ ने मना कर दिया।किंतु राष्ट्रभक्ति की भावना से ओत प्रोत शुंग , सम्राट की आज्ञा का उल्लंघन करके बौद्ध मठों की तलाशी लेने पहुँच गया। मठों में स्थित सभी विदेशी सैनिको को पकड़ लिया गया,तथा उनको यमलोक पहुँचा दिया गया,और उनके हथियार कब्जे में कर लिए गए। राष्ट्रद्रोही बौद्धों को भी ग्रिफ्तार कर लिया गया। परन्तु वृहद्रथ को यह बात अच्छी नही लगी।

पुष्यमित्र जब मगध वापस आया तब उस समय सम्राट सैनिक परेड की जाँच कर रहा था। सैनिक परेड के स्थान पर hi सम्राट व पुष्यमित्र शुंग के बीच बौद्ध मठों को लेकर कहासुनी हो गई।सम्राट वृहद्रथ ने पुष्यमित्र पर हमला करना चाहा परंतु पुष्यमित्र ने पलटवार करते हुए सम्राट का वद्ध कर दिया। वैदिक सैनिको ने पुष्यमित्र का साथ दिया तथा पुष्यमित्र को मगध का सम्राट घोषित कर दिया।

सबसे पहले मगध के नए सम्राट पुष्यमित्र ने राज्य प्रबंध को प्रभावी बनाया, तथा एक सुगठित सेना का संगठन किया। पुष्यमित्र ने अपनी सेना के साथ भारत के मध्य तक चढ़ आए मिनिंदर पर आक्रमण कर दिया। भारतीय वीर सेना के सामने ग्रीक सैनिको की एक न चली। मिनिंदर की सेना पीछे हटती चली गई । पुष्यमित्र शुंग ने पिछले सम्राटों की तरह कोई गलती नही की तथा ग्रीक सेना का पीछा करते हुए उसे सिन्धु पार धकेल दिया। इसके पश्चात् ग्रीक कभी भी भारत पर आक्रमण नही कर पाये। सम्राट पुष्य मित्र ने सिकंदर के समय से ही भारत वर्ष को परेशानी में डालने वाले ग्रीको का समूल नाश ही कर दिया। बौद्ध धर्म के प्रसार के कारण वैदिक सभ्यता का जो ह्रास हुआ,पुन:ऋषिओं के आशीर्वाद से जाग्रत हुआ। डर से बौद्ध धर्म स्वीकार करने वाले पुन: वैदिक धर्म में लौट आए। कुछ बौद्ध ग्रंथों में लिखा है की पुष्यमित्र ने बौद्दों को सताया .किंतु यह पूरा सत्य नही है। सम्राट ने उन राष्ट्रद्रोही बौद्धों को सजा दी ,जो उस समय ग्रीक शासकों का साथ दे रहे थे।

पुष्यमित्र ने जो वैदिक धर्म की पताका फहराई उसी के आधार को सम्राट विक्र्मद्वित्य व आगे चलकर गुप्त साम्रराज्य ने इस धर्म के ज्ञान को पूरे विश्व में फैलाया। .................................लेख जारी है।

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घमासान युद्ध आरंभ हो चुका था। दो रात और एक दिन तो युद्ध के कारण दोनों पक्षों केसैनिक खाना-सोना तक भूल गए थे। किले के नागरिकों से राजपूतों को भरपूर सहायता मिल रही थी। वे अपने घरों से ज्वलनशील सामग्री ला लाकर मोर्चों पर पहुँचा रहे थे। शस्त्रों का अनवरत निर्माण कर रहे थे। प्राचीरों पर पत्थरों का ढेर लगा था, यदा कदा स्वयं भी शाही सेना पर पथराव के द्वारा प्रत्यक्ष युद्ध में भाग ले रहे । राजपूताने के इतिहास में यह प्रथम अवसर था जब युद्ध विधा से अपरिचत नागरिकों, स्त्रियों और बालकों तक ने मातृभूमि की रक्षा के लिये युद्ध में भाग लिया था। चारों ओर रण मद छाया था।

अपनी कमज़ोर स्थिति के बावज़ूद उनका उत्साह भंग नहीं हो रहा था। नागरिकों का मनोबल देख सैनिकों व सरदारों का हौसला भी दुगुना हुआ जाता था। यह देख रनिवासों की राजपूतानियाँ भी घूँघट उलट युद्ध में आ कूदीं। उनका मनोबल देख कर किसी भी सरदार कोउन्हें रोकने का साहस नहीं हुआ। जयमल्ल द्वारा उन्हें महलों में रह कर ही युद्ध का परिणाम देखने की बात सुनते ही पत्ता चूंडावत की माँ सज्जन बाई सोनगरी बिफर उठी। सिंहनी की गर्जना के साथ उन्होंने पूछाग् क्या यह हमारी मातृभूमि नहीं है? क्या इसकी रक्षा की जिम्मेदारी हमारी नहीं है? क्या इससे पूर्व इसी किले में जवाहर बाईके नेतृत्व में राजपूत स्त्रियों ने युद्ध नहीं लडा.? यदि यह सच है तो हमें युद्ध में भाग लेने से कैसे रोका जा सकता है? इसके बाद किसीने उन्हें रोकने का साहस नहीं किया। युद्ध में अकबर चकिया नामक हाथी पर सवार हो कर न केवल सभी मोर्चों को सँभालता था, अपितु सैनिकों के साथ खड़ा हो बंदूकें भी चलाने लगता था। लाखोटा दरवाजे के पास मोर्चे के निरीक्षण के समय किले से आई गोली उसके कान के पास से निकल गई। अकबर ने फुर्ती से दीवार की आड़ ले अपनी जान बचाई। फिर उसने बन्दूक लेकर तरकश की तरफ गोली चलाईग, जिससे किले के बन्दूकचियों का सरदार इस्माईल खाँ मारा गया. कालपी से लाए एक हजार बक्सरिया मुसलमानों की सेना इस्माईल खाँ के नेतृत्व में राजपूतों की ओर से लड़ रही थी। इस सेना के कुशल बन्दूकचियों ने शाही सेना के सैंकड़ों सैनिकों को मारा था।

घमासान युद्ध के दौरान अकबर को एक तीरकश से हजारमेखी सिलह पहने एक सरदार दिखाई दिया। उसे महत्वपूर्ण सरदार जान अकबर ने अपनी संग्राम नामक बंदूक से गोली चला दी। गोली जयमल्ल के घुटने में लगी। पैर टूट जाने पर उसने सभी सरदारों को एकत्र कर मंत्रणा की। किले की दीवारें कई जगह से टूट-फूट जाने के अतिरिक्त भारी संख्या में सैनिक मारे जा चुके थे। उधर कड़ी घेराबंदी के कारण किले में खाद्य सामग्री का भी अभाव हो चला था। ऐसे में रनिवासों में शेष रही राजपूत स्त्रियों, कन्याओं और बालकों को जौहर की प्रचण्ड ज्वालाओं में भस्म करने के बाद,शेष राजपूतों को केसरिया बाना धारण कर शत्रुओं पर टूट पडऩे का अंतिम निर्णय ले लिया गया।

25 फरवरी 1568 को अर्धरात्रि में हज़ारों राजपूत वीरांगनाओं ने भीमलत कुण्ड में स्नान कर सौभाग्य चिन्ह धारण किये। हर हर महा देव के अनवरत जयघोषों और ढोल-नगाड़ों की ध्वनियों के बीच समिधेश्वर महादेव के दर्शन कर वे जौहर स्थल पर एकत्रित हो गईं। इनका नेतृत्व जयमल्ल राठौड़ और पत्ता चूण्डावत की पत्नियाँ कर रही थीं। समिधेश्वर महादेव और भीमलत के बीच विशाल मैदान में लकडिय़ों का विशाल ढेर एकत्रित था। ब्रह्म मुहूर्त में वेद मंत्र ध्वनियों के साथ अग्नि प्रज्वलित की गई । केसरिया वस्त्र पहने राजपूत रक्तिम नेत्रों से अपनी पत्नियों, बालक पुत्रों तथा पुत्रियों को अन्तिम विदा दे रहे थे। विकराल अग्नि शिखाएं आकाश स्पर्श की स्पर्धा में लपलपाने लगीं। मातृभूमि को अन्तिम प्रणाम कर पत्ता की बड़ी रानी जीवाबाई सोलंकी ने पति की ओर देखा, आँखों से ही पति को अन्तिम प्रणाम कर, हर हर महादेव के गगनभेदी जयघोषों के बीच वह अग्निकुण्ड में कूद गई। इसके साथ ही पत्ता की अन्य रानियाँ मदालसा बाई कछवाही, भगवती बाई चहुवान, पद्मावती झाली,रतन बाई राठौड, बालेसा बाई चहुवान, आसाबाई बागड़ेची अपने दो पुत्रों तथा पाँच पुत्रियों के साथ लपलपाती ज्वाला में समा गई। कुछ वर्ष पूर्व गुजरात के बादशाह बहादुर शाह के चित्तौड़ आक्रमण में अपने पति को न्यौछावर करने वाली पत्ता की माँ सज्जन बाई सोनगरी ने पुत्र को केसरिया तिलक लगा कर जौहर किया। विजयी मुगलों सेअपना सतीत्व और बच्चों को मुसलमान बनाने से बचाने के लिये हज़ारों राजपूत वीरांगनाओं ने पत्ता, साहिब खान, ईसरदास की हवेलियों के पास धधक रही चिताओं में अग्निस्नान कर दूसरे लोक में प्रस्थान किया। अंधकार में धधकती ज्वालाएं मीलों दूर तक दिखाई दे रहीथी। आशंकित अकबर को आम्बेर के राजा भगवान दास ने बताया कि अपने स्त्री-बच्चों को अग्नि की भेंट कर महाकाल बने राजपूतों का अन्तिम ओर प्रचण्ड आक्रमण होने वाला है। केसरिया बाना धारण करने के बाद राजपूत स्वयं महाकाल बन जाता है। सुन कर अकबर ने समय नष्ट नहीं किया और फौरन सेना की व्यूह रचना सुदृढ़ कर,राजपूती आक्रमण की प्रतीक्षा करने लगा।

भोर की प्रथम किरण के साथ किले के द्वार खुल गए। हर हर महादेव के जयघोषों के साथ रण बांकुरे राजपूत मुगल सेना पर टूट पड़े। अकबर की गोली से घुटना टूट जाने के कारण जयमल्ल को घोड़े पर बैठने में असमर्थ देख उसके भाई कल्ला राठौड़ ने अपने कन्धें पर बिठा लिया। दोनों भाई तलवार चलाते हुए शाही सेना में घुस गए। महाकाल बने दोनों भाई दो घड़ी घण्टे तक युद्ध करने के बाद हनुमान पोल और भैरव पोल के बीच मारे गए। उधर डोडिया सांडा भी गम्भीरी नदी के पश्चिम में घमासान युद्ध करते हुए मारा गया। राजपूतों के प्रचण्ड आक्रमण का सामना करने के लिये अकबर ने पचास प्रशिक्षित हाथियों की सूंडों में दुधारे खांडे पकड़ा कर आगे बढ़ाया। इनके पीछे तीन सौ हाथियों की एक और रक्षा पंक्ति सूंडों में दुधारे खांडे पकड़ आगे बढ़ी। इनमें मधुकर, जांगिया, सबदलिया,कदीरा आदि कई विख्यात और कई युद्धों में आजमाये गजराज भी शामिल थे।

अकबर स्वयं मधुकर पर सवार होकर युद्ध संचालन कर रहा था। इनके मुकाबले राजपूत सरदार घोड़ों पर शेष सब पैदल थे। लेकिन शौर्य साधनों का मोहताज नहीं होता। एक राजपूत ने उछल कर वार किया तो अजमत खां के हाथी की सूंड कट कर दूर जा गिरी। घबराया हाथी अपनी ही सेना को कुचलता हुआ भागा। भागते हाथी से गिर कर अजमत खां ने भी दम तोड़ दिया। इसी प्रकार सबदलिया हाथी ने भी सूंड कट जाने पर अपनी ही सेना के पचासों सैनिकों को कुचल डाला। राजपूतों के कड़े प्रतिरोध के बाद भी शाही सेना हाथियों और बंदूकों के बल पर धीरे-धीरे किले में प्रवेश करती जा रही थी। यह देख राजपूतों की ओर से लड़ रहे बक्सरिया मुसलमानों की बन्दूक सेना ने भाग निकलने में ही कुशल समझी। वे अपनी स्त्रियों और बच्चों को कैदियों की तरह घेर कर शाही सेना के बीच से निकले। उन्हें अपना सैनिक समझ शाही सेना ने रोक-टोक नहीं की। सूरजपोल पर रावत साईं दास बहादुरी के साथ लड़ते हुए मारा गया। उसकी मदद को पहुँचे राजराणा जैता सज्जावत और राजराणा सुल्तान आसावत भी वहीं काम आ गए। समिधेश्वर महादेव मन्दिर के पास और रामपोल पर पत्ता चूंडावत के नेतृत्व में युद्ध हो रहा था। रणबांकुरा पत्ता चपलता के पूर्वक घोड़ा दौड़ाता हुआ हाथियों की सूंडे काट रहा था। रक्त के धारे बहाते ये शुण्ड विहीन गजराज अपनी ही सेना को कुचलते हुए भाग रहे थे।

एक गजराज की सूंड में पकड़े खांडे से घोड़े का पैर कट जाने पर पत्ता जमीन पर कूद पड़ा और पैदल ही मारकाट करता हुआ गम्भीर रूप से घायल हो गया। महावत उसे महत्वपूर्ण सरदार समझ जिन्दा गिरफ्तार करने के लिये हाथी की सूंड में लपेट अकबर की ओर चला। पत्ता की वीरता से प्रभावित बादशाह द्वारा प्राण बचाने के प्रयास करने से पूर्व ही उसने दम तोड़ दिया। किले के चप्पे-चप्पे पर हुए घमासान युद्ध में रणबांकुरे राजपूत तिल-तिल कट मरे। एक ओर जौहर की चिताएं अब भी धधक रही थीं, दूसरी ओर रामपोल से समिधेश्वर तक की जमीन लाशों से ढँक गई थी। किले पर शाही झंडा फहराने के बाद अकबर के चेहरे पर विजय का उल्लास अभी ठीक से फैल भी न सका था कि एक अप्रत्याशित दृश्य ने स्तंभित कर दिया, वह समझ नहीं पा रहा था कि यह दृश्य वास्तव में हकीकत है या फिर कोई सपना देख रहा है। ऐसा दृश्य किसी युद्ध में देखना तो दूर सुना तक न था। युद्ध में आम नागरिक सेना की सहायता तो करते हैं किन्तु स्वयं मैदान में नहीं उतरते। लेकिन यहाँ तो अघट ही घट रहा था। किले की घेराबंदी से पूर्व आस-पास के गाँवों से किले में आ गए ग्रामीणों ने किले के निवासियों के साथ मिल कर शाही सेना पर हल्ला बोल दिया था। इनके पास न शस्त्र थे और न ही लडऩे का कौशल। जिसके हाथ जो आया उसी से सैनिकों को मारने लगा। ब्राह्मणों ने वेदपाठ छोड़ लाठियाँ उठा लीं।

वैश्य-वणिकों ने तौलने के बांटों से ही कइयों के सर फोड़ डाले। भील, लोहार, धोबी,रंगरेज, जुलाहे, मोची, राज मिस्त्री कोई भी तो पीछे न रहा। लाठी, डंडा, गोफन, पत्थर आदि ही उनके अस्त्र थे। यह विश्व का अनूठा युद्ध था। जहाँ प्रशिक्षित अस्त्र-शस्त्र से सज्जित सेना से शस्त्रविहीन देहाती भिड़ रहे थे।

मुश्किल से हासिल विजय में खलल पड़ता देख तैमूर के वंशज अकबर की आँखों में खून उतर आया। मातृभूमि के प्रति प्रेम से उत्पन्न इस छोटे से प्रतिरोध को बिना खून-खराबे के शान्त करना आसान था किन्तु अकबर ने नृशंस निर्णय लिया। शाही सेना पर हमले के अपराध में उसने कत्ल-ए-आम का आदेश दे दिया। विजय के नशे में चूर मुगल निहत्थे नागरिकों पर टूट पड़े। चारों ओर कोहराम मच गया। खूंखार सैनिकों के सामने जो पड़ा, नृशंसता पूर्वक कत्ल कर दिया गया। स्त्रियों और बच्चों तक को नहीं बख्शा गया। चित्तौड़ की आवासीय गलियाँ लाशों से भर गईं। मध्यान्ह से तीसरे प्रहर तक चला कत्ल-ए-आम अन्तिम व्यक्ति को भी तलवार की भेंट चढाने के बाद ही बन्द हुआ। विश्व के इस सबसे बड़े हत्याकाण्ड में चालीस हज़ार से अधिक नागरिक स्त्री,पुरूष, बालक मारे गए किन्तु इस युद्ध में मारे गए राजपूतों और जौहर की स्त्रियों को भी शामिल करने पर यह संख्या सत्तर हज़ार से अधिक हो जाती है। जबकि 12 मार्च1739 को नादिरशाह द्वारा दिल्ली में किये कत्ल-ए-आम् में लगभग तीस हज़ार लोग दरिन्दगी की भेंट चढ़े थे। यह महान कहे जाने वाले अकबर की नृसंसता का घृणित प्रदर्शन ही था कि अपनी सफलता का आकलन करने के लिये उसने मारे गए लोंगों के यज्ञोपवीतों को तुलवाया, उनका वजन 7411निकला।

उन दिनों मेवाड़ी मन चार सेर का होता था। इससे है हत्या की भयावहता का अनुमान हो जाता है। कार्थाज़ वालों ने भी केना के युद्ध में मारे गए रोमनों की अगूठियाँ तुलवा कर अपनी सफलता का परिणाम आंका था। चित्तौड़ दुर्ग के निवासियों ने ही नहीं वहाँ के भवनों, मन्दिरों, महलों ने भी अकबरी प्रकोप झेला था। अनेकों भवनों, मन्दिरों, महलों को नष्ट कर ख्वाजा अब्दुल मजीद आसिफ खाँ को किले का शासन सौंप कर अकबर आगरा लौटा था। जयमल और पत्ता की वीरता से प्रभावित होकर उसने आगरा के किले में इनकी पत्थर की मूर्तियाँ लगवा कर इनके शौर्य का सम्मान अवश्य किया था।

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