Taj Mahal : mausoleum built by Emperor Shah Jahan for his beloved queen Mumtaz Mahal (Arjumand Bāno Begum) on Yamuna in Agra. It took 22 years to build from her death in 1631 in child-birth (it was her fourteenth child); it cost 50 lakhs rupees & God-alone-knows how many whippings, mutilations, & deaths among the labourers.
... transience - an immor- Page 147 tality without the bliss of breath. When will the artist find the secret of making his very being a lasting work of art? Surely one who could build the Taj Mahal or paint Ajanta or sculpt the Pieta or pen the Divine Comedy has projected immortality from some living core of it within him. Have not the Vedic seers spoken of the Immortal in the mortal? But ...
... The Arabs, so recently nomads or merchants, started to adapt art forms and traditions of the conquered countries, and soon a brilliant synthesis emerged, and from the Alhambra in Spain to the Taj Mahal in India, Islamic art developed a unique character and expressed the human spirit with a profuse delicacy difficult to surpass. Suggestions for further reading Ahmad,Aziz. An Intellectual ...
... with his sick child. He said to Mother that if she accepted the child, he would give her lots of money. Mother thought awhile, drew out something like a horoscope which seemed somewhat like- the Taj Mahal. Through a tubelike instrument, she gazed at the design. She found that this child had a counterpart in Delhi whom if she secured, she'd cure this child. This man seemed to have some connection with ...
... c) Outstanding paintings, right up to Mughal period; d) Indian architecture, temples, palaces, churches, Gurudwaras and others; Mughal architecture in India: Importance of Taj Mahal. Page 244 Class XI a) Systems of Indian Philosophy: Main schools and their fundamental doctrines; b) Indian ethics: outline study of ethics and yoga of Geeta. ...
... Edition, Volume 14, p.208 Page 19 the Indian mind has taken in much from the Arab and the Persian imagination. As Sri Aurobindo points out in regard to the Taj Mahal: "The Taj is not merely a sensuous reminiscence of an imperial amour or a fairy enchantment hewn from the moon's lucent quarries, but the eternal dream of a love that survives death." 2 ...
... civilization or culture by taking the opposite line of arguments, but to me they have seemed always to be weak. For example, his heroine does not find anything grand in the conception behind the Taj Mahal. Sri Aurobindo : What is there European about it? The one thing they like is the Taj. Page 252 Disciple : I don't mean the architectural beauty, but he ridicules the ...
... Shakespeare's, Dante's or Valmiki's, music more superb than the music of Beethoven or Bach, sculpture greater than the statues of Phidias and Michael Angelo, architecture more utterly beautiful than the Taj Mahal, the Parthenon or Borobudur or St. Peter's or of the great Gothic cathedrals? The same may be said of the crafts of ancient Greece and Japan in the Middle Ages or structural feats like the Pyramids ...
... master of surprise and paradox, Bernard Shaw. Nor could he have done anything more appropriate at the meeting than giving Shaw not the usual presents one might anticipate, such as a tiny model of the Taj Mahal or a statuette of Nataraja or a pocket edition of the Bhagavad Gita, but that most unexpected symbol of his country — the mango! In the world of fruits the mango is as essentially Indian as olives ...
... the self-renewal of the race. But, like the purest white bloom that I once saw emerging from a dung-heap in an Indian village, a rarer love can also emerge from that 'evolutionary device'. The Taj Mahal stands as the monumental testimony of one such love. Willy-nilly, all of us are driven—divinely or diabolically, as the case may be—by Love in diminished or grotesque forms of its primeval ...
... architecture, and this is true even of the Indo- Muslim architecture, where the Indian mind has taken in much from the Arab and the Persian imagination. As Sri Aurobindo points out in regard to the Taj Mahal: Page 478 The Taj is not merely a sensuous reminiscence of an imperial amour or a fairy enchantment hewn from the moon's lucent quarries, but the eternal dream of a love that survives ...
... NIRODBARAN: He seems to have pleaded the cause of Western civilisation and made the arguments against it very weak. For instance, his heroine doesn't find anything grand in the conception behind the Taj Mahal. SRI AUROBINDO: What is Western about this attitude of the heroine? If there is one thing the Europeans like in India, it is the Taj. NIRODBARAN: I don't mean the architectural beauty. What ...
... moment was "lone, limitless, nude, immune". Silent and purposeful and eagle-eyed and resilient, Sri Aurobindo flitted behind the scenes when occasion demanded - now at the Congress session, now at the Taj Mahal Hotel at Bombay to meet G.D. Madgaokar of the Civil Service and his associates to discuss the prospects of revolution in Gujarat, now lost in the ocean of Calcutta humanity scouring the underground ...
... I have viewed many miracled whitenesses— The passionless pure anger of thick snow Falling from heaven; a crest of icy glow Like the eternal laughter of a god; And Taj Mahal's imperishable peace, An emperor's flawless dream ecstatic-hewn By wizard hands out of a plenilune Of love untarnished by the mouldering sod. But once I knew a whiteness stranger ...
... Whitenesses I have viewed many miracled whitenesses - The passionless pure anger of thick snow Falling from heaven; a crest of icy glow Like the eternal laughter of a god; And Taj Mahal's imperishable peace, An emperor's flawless dream ecstatic-hewn By wizard hands out of a plenilune Of love untarnished by the mouldering sod. But once I knew a whiteness stranger ...
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