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Taj Mahal is a mausoleum where Shah Jahan's third wife's remains were buried and where later Shah Jahan was also entombed.
Poetry is usually about interpretations and I have two about this line where Tagore calls Taj Mahal as ‘teardrop on the cheek of time'.
The first interpretation is a general One. We are well aware about the famous love that was shared between Prince Khurram and Arjumand Banu Begum. It all began when Prince Khurram (age 14) saw Arjumand Banu Begum (age 15) in Meena bazar and fell in love with her. The couple got married after 5 years hence. Shah Jahan loved Mumtaz more than any other wife he had (Two).
Therefore, he preferred that she accompanied him wherever he went. In the meantime somewhere, Mumtaz expressed her wish to be entombed in such a mausoleum that would make her immortal even past her death. While, accompanying Shah Jahan in to Deccan Plateau, Mumtaz died giving birth to their 14th child.
Shah Jahan, heartbroken, kept his promise and built Taj Mahal.
The monument symbolises love and loyalty but brings back the memories of Shah Jahan's insane dedication towards his wife's wish. The story of how he lost his treasure and money, how his son Aurangzeb held him arrested in a room from where Shah Jahan could only see Taj Mahal through its window while his son killed all his brothers for the crown, how he died looking at it, how he could never be the same after Mumtaz's death.
Second interpretation would be that though Taj Mahal is known as a symbol of love, but the love story that it entitles has glitches. Why would Shah Jahan want his pregnant wife to travel with him to a battle campaign? Also, what I learnt was that Mumtaz was quite ill before she was impregnated. Now why would you do that with someone you love so much?
However, about the facts whether Shah Jahan killed Mumtaz's first husband or was she even married before him or did Shah Jahan really marry her sister after she died are not proven.
So, it might be that Tagore looks at it as a teardrop on the cheek of time because though it symbolised eternal love, the story that prevails is not so much romantic.
Poetry is usually about interpretations and I have two about this line where Tagore calls Taj Mahal as ‘teardrop on the cheek of time'.
The first interpretation is a general One. We are well aware about the famous love that was shared between Prince Khurram and Arjumand Banu Begum. It all began when Prince Khurram (age 14) saw Arjumand Banu Begum (age 15) in Meena bazar and fell in love with her. The couple got married after 5 years hence. Shah Jahan loved Mumtaz more than any other wife he had (Two).
Therefore, he preferred that she accompanied him wherever he went. In the meantime somewhere, Mumtaz expressed her wish to be entombed in such a mausoleum that would make her immortal even past her death. While, accompanying Shah Jahan in to Deccan Plateau, Mumtaz died giving birth to their 14th child.
Shah Jahan, heartbroken, kept his promise and built Taj Mahal.
The monument symbolises love and loyalty but brings back the memories of Shah Jahan's insane dedication towards his wife's wish. The story of how he lost his treasure and money, how his son Aurangzeb held him arrested in a room from where Shah Jahan could only see Taj Mahal through its window while his son killed all his brothers for the crown, how he died looking at it, how he could never be the same after Mumtaz's death.
Second interpretation would be that though Taj Mahal is known as a symbol of love, but the love story that it entitles has glitches. Why would Shah Jahan want his pregnant wife to travel with him to a battle campaign? Also, what I learnt was that Mumtaz was quite ill before she was impregnated. Now why would you do that with someone you love so much?
However, about the facts whether Shah Jahan killed Mumtaz's first husband or was she even married before him or did Shah Jahan really marry her sister after she died are not proven.
So, it might be that Tagore looks at it as a teardrop on the cheek of time because though it symbolised eternal love, the story that prevails is not so much romantic.
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