What : Taj Mahal
Where : Agra, Rajasthan
Weapon : Sony Cybershot DMC-P72
A recent visit to the Tandoori and Curry Club (one of the best Indian Restaurants on the North Shore) in Hornsby reminded me of our visit to the Taj Mahal in ????????.
The Taj of course is neither a mansion nor a palace at all, it is a place of death, a mausoleum, and was built by the Moghul Emperor Shah
Jahan in memory of his third and favourite wife, Mumtaz
Mahal when she died giving birth to his 14th child.
Even on the hottest of days, with the sun radiating off the white marble, it is cold and sort of creepy. The Emperor himself wrote these memorable words about this deathly place ....
Should guilty seek asylum here, like one pardoned, he becomes free from sin.
Should a sinner make his way to this mansion, all his past sins are to be washed away.
The sight of this mansion creates sorrowing sighs and the sun and the moon shed tears from their eyes.
In this world this edifice has been made to display thereby the creator's glory. (Emperor Shah Jahan)
The Tandoori and Curry Club is neither deathly nor cold. The food is great and the service excellent.
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