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India Monuments
India has over fifty famous monuments categorized as mausoleums, memorials, or former royal complexes. The Taj Mahal is an Indian monument listed as a World Heritage site. The oldest monument is the Pattadal, built around the 700s.
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Relation of taj mahal with yamuna river?
The water which fills the channels was once fed from the river and historical evidence suggest it was physically moved to flow closer to the building. This enabled sand and shingle from the river-bed to be used in construction to build the taj mahal.
Why did they name the taj mahal?
Taj Mahal, is not a Muslim name as there is no such word called Mahal in Persian. A building is called Mahal in Sanskrit/Hindi; it called Manjil in Persian.
Taj Mahal was called Tajo Mahal or the temple of Shiva inside a Rajput palace of Jagat Singh, grandson of Man Singh, the commander of Mongol Emperor Akbar.
The English term is from Greek Ἰνδία (Indía), via Latin India.
Latin India is coined first by Lucian, a Greek novelist of 2nd century. Indía in Byzantine (Koine Greek) ethnography denotes the region beyond the Indus (Ἰνδός) river in Pakistan. The name India is derived from Indus, which originates from the Old Persian word Hindu. The latter term stems from the Sanskrit word Sindhu, Indus River.
The name India was known in Old English, and was used in King Alfred's translation of Orosius.
In Middle English, the name was, under French influence, replaced by Ynde or Inde, which entered Early Modern English as Indie. The name India then came back to English usage from the 17th century onwards, and may be due to the influence of Latin, or Spanish or Portuguese.
Sanskrit indu "drop (of Soma)", also a term for the Moon, is unrelated, but has sometimes been erroneously connected, listed by, among others, Colonel James Todd in his Annals of Rajputana. Todd describes ancient India as under control of tribes claiming descent from the Moon, or "Indu" (referring to Chandravanshi Rajputs).
Yes, India gate is colonial. India Gate was built in commemoration of the Indian soldiers that died in WWI and the Anglo-Afghan war. It was built during British Colonial dominion of India.
Which are the historical monuments of the medieval India?
taj mahal
jantar mantar
qutub minar
parlament house
india gate
What type of stone is the Taj Mahal built from?
The Taj Mahal is made from marble. Some say that from far away it looks plain white or cream but in fact, it's actually got lots of beautiful carvings! It can be underestimated by people thinking its just a plain temple but really, there's a lot more to it.
Why the Taj Mahal is design the way that it is?
taj mahal is design in the memory of shaha jahan's third wife mumtas mahal which she was died in childbirth
What is the purpose of the taj mahal?
The taj is a symbol of love from the grandson of akbar, Shah Jahan, to his dead wife (mumtaz mahal) who died after giving birth to her fourteenth son. Because he loved her so much he built it for her as a tomb.
What is written above is a British-Muslim propaganda. Shah Jehan had no queen named Taj Mahal; it is impossible. Taj means crown; Mahal means building. Is it possible for any woman to have a strange name Crown Building. Mahal is Sanskrit. The court language during Shah Jehan was Persian, where a building is called Manzil, not Mahal.
Shah Jehan's favourite queen's name was Arjumand Zamani not Taj Mahal.
Shah Jehan got this building from Jagat Singh, the grand son of Man Singh, commander in chief of Akbar, the grandfather of Shah Jehan. Man Singh got it from earlier days. Taj Mahal was a part of a Hindu palace. It has four floors; which the British blocked with stonewalls.
The building is facing East, just like any Hindu building, not west, which any Muslim building should face.
It has motives of flowers and plants, prohibited in Muslim architecture.
It has octagonal shape, according to Hindu Vastu Shastra.
It was never built by Shah Jehan, who modified it to put verses of Koran, not any love poems.
Which material is used in red fort?
ample use of red sandstone is done for the octagonal fort in new delhi,india
What did the Turks do that affected trade between Europe and Asia?
Europeans began looking for new sea routes to Asia.
Where are jantar mantar situated?
It is situated in two cities of India which are New Delhi and Jaipur.
As an Astronomical Observetory. a work of Art, Science and Religeon.
panch mahal was built in fateh pur sikri near agra in the northeast direction of jodh bai's palace
