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私の住む街には、タージ・マハル廟を模した現代建築があります。
博物館なのですが、まだ若者の頃、出来たばかりのこの博物館を見て、タージ・マハル廟を現代解釈した建築なのだ、と胸が熱くなりました。
制服を着ていた頃に見た教科書によると、タージ・マハル廟は大変美しく心も美しいお妃様が亡くなられて、王様がお妃様の事を世界中が忘れないように、大変美しいお墓を造ったとありました。
当時、白いお墓はタージ・マハル妃（ムムターズ・マハル妃）だけだったそうです。
先程、Wikipediaでタージ・マハル廟について調べると、先に眠りに着いたのは矢張りタージ・マハル妃で、その後、本来なら川を挟んだ対岸に皇帝のシャー・ジャハーン王の黒い霊廟を建築し、イスラーム建築の一対の様式美が完成する筈だったそうですが、シャー・ジャハーン王は後に王位継承争いの為、即位した息子の一人に幽閉されて生涯を終えたそうです。
王位継承争いの際、シャー・ジャハーン王が指名した息子とは別の息子にシャー・ジャハーン王が即位を命ずる手紙を送ったことが発覚し、最初に指名された息子が次の皇帝となった為、シャー・ジャハーン王の亡骸は、当時でも珍しい王妃の霊廟に葬られたとあります。
Wikipedia タージ・マハル より
深い愛情からタージ・マハル廟が建築され、その後、皇帝も同じ霊廟に眠られているのだ、と感激していた私はがっかりして、兎に角最後まで読んで、やはりがっかりしてしまい少し考え込みました。
てっきりタージ・マハル妃が「私の霊廟を造って下さい。良かったら王も同じ場所に眠って下さい」と言い遺されたとばかり思っていたからです。
Wikipediaには次に即位した皇帝が、自分を裏切った父への憎しみの余り、当時例の無い葬り方の、お妃と同じお墓に王の棺を並べて安置したとあり、この世で最も美しい霊廟が凄まじい感情の建築に変わりそうになりました。
ふと思い付き、インドでは王と王妃が同じお墓に眠る前例は本当に無いのか？ と検索すると、AIが非常に驚くべき回答を返しました。
インドの歴史において、夫婦が同じ墓（霊廟）に葬られる例は、主にイスラーム王朝（ムガル帝国など）に見られます。
代表的な例は以下の通りです。
1. タージ・マハル（ムガル帝国）
インドで最も有名な「夫婦同じ墓」です。
* 場所: アーグラ
* 概要: ムガル帝国第5代皇帝シャー・ジャハーンが、亡くなった最愛の妃ムムターズ・マハルのために建てた白大理石の墓です。
* 特徴: 妃の死後、約22年の歳月をかけて建造されました。後にシャー・ジャハーン自身も亡くなり、この廟の地下にある妃の棺の隣に葬られました。
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2. フマーユーン廟（ムガル帝国）
タージ・マハルのモデルとも言われる、デリーにある巨大な墓廟です。
* 場所: デリー
* 概要: ムガル帝国第2代皇帝フマーユーンの墓です。
* 特徴: フマーユーンの妃ハージ・ベーグムが建立しました。この墓廟にはフマーユーンだけでなく、彼の一族や妻たちも合祀されており、初期ムガル帝国の「家族墓・夫婦墓」の形態を示しています。
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3. アブドゥル・ラヒム・カーン・イ・カーナンの墓（ムガル帝国）
タージ・マハルよりも前に建てられた、夫婦の愛を象徴する墓です。
* 場所: デリー（ニザームディン地区）
* 概要: ムガル帝国の詩人・武将であったアブドゥル・ラヒムが、妻の死を悼んで建てた墓です。
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4. ハラッパーの対になった墓（古代・インダス文明）
約4500年前のインダス文明の遺跡でも、夫婦と思われる2体が同じ墓から見つかっています。
* 場所: ラキガルヒ（ハリヤーナ州）
* 概要: 2016年に発掘された紀元前2500年頃の墓で、男性と女性の骨が「寄り添うように」互いに顔を向けて葬られていました。これは、インドにおける「カップル埋葬」の非常に珍しい考古学的発見とされています。
Google検索「インド 王朝 墓 夫婦同じ墓」結果より
シャー・ジャハーン王とタージ・マハル妃は、最初から二人一緒に埋葬して貰う予定だったか、王はタージ・マハル廟を建築しながら自身の王廟はタージ・マハル妃と同じこの真珠の霊廟だ、と決められたのでは無いでしょうか？
川を挟み白と黒（その予定だったと伝えられているそうです。）の霊廟だと、お二人の距離が遠いですからね。
私は、そうではないかと思います。
当時、お妃様だけの為に霊廟を造るのは異例だったそうですから。
美しい真珠の霊廟が出来た、切ないですが、誠実の愛を誓った経緯があったムガル帝国時代は、他にも夫婦墓の事例が有りました。
そのもっとずっと昔、紀元前2500年頃のインダス文明のお墓では、男性と女性が互いに寄り添うように横たわり、互いに顔を向けて眠っていたそうです。
目が醒めたら、一番最初に互いを見つけてほほ笑めるように。
2026年の2月14日、私の住む街は雨が降っています。
美しい気持ちを渡す、一年で最も静かなシルクのリボンが掛かった夜に、冷たい雨が、銀色の光を描く細い直線を、繰り返し沢山の灯りに落としています。
とりとめもない話を止めて
現在と未来にしか無い
”愛のハナシをしよう”
20260214 HAPPY VALENTINE DAY .
BRMC ENAMEL The Rover
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In the city where I live, there is a modern building modeled after the Taj Mahal.
It's a museum, but when I was young and saw this newly built museum, my heart swelled with emotion, thinking it was a modern interpretation of the Taj Mahal.
According to the textbooks I studied while still in uniform, the Taj Mahal was built by a king for his beautiful and kind-hearted queen after her death, so the world would never forget her.
At that time, it seems the white mausoleum was only for the Taj Mahal's queen (Mumtaz Mahal).
Earlier, when I looked up the Taj Mahal on Wikipedia, I learned that indeed, Mumtaz Mahal was the first to be laid to rest there. After her, the plan was to build the black mausoleum of Emperor Shah Jahan on the opposite bank of the river, completing the Islamic architectural pair's aesthetic harmony.
It's a museum, but when I was young and saw this newly built museum, my heart swelled with emotion, thinking it was a modern interpretation of the Taj Mahal.
According to the textbooks I studied while still in uniform, the Taj Mahal was built by a king for his beautiful and kind-hearted queen after her death, so the world would never forget her.
At that time, it seems the white mausoleum was only for the Taj Mahal's queen (Mumtaz Mahal).
Earlier, when I looked up the Taj Mahal on Wikipedia, I learned that indeed, Mumtaz Mahal was the first to be laid to rest there. After her, the plan was to build the black mausoleum of Emperor Shah Jahan on the opposite bank of the river, completing the Islamic architectural pair's aesthetic harmony.
However, Shah Jahan was later imprisoned by one of his sons who had ascended the throne due to a succession dispute, and he spent the rest of his life in confinement.
During the succession struggle, it was discovered that Shah Jahan had sent a letter ordering another son, not the one he had originally designated, to ascend the throne.
Since the initially designated son became the next emperor, Shah Jahan's remains were buried in the mausoleum of his queen, which was unusual even at that time.
From Wikipedia, Taj Mahal
https://w.wiki/HrAH
I had been deeply moved, believing the Taj Mahal was built out of profound love and that the emperor later rested in the same mausoleum. Reading to the end, I was disappointed and fell into deep thought.
From Wikipedia, Taj Mahal
https://w.wiki/HrAH
I had been deeply moved, believing the Taj Mahal was built out of profound love and that the emperor later rested in the same mausoleum. Reading to the end, I was disappointed and fell into deep thought.
I had assumed the Taj Mahal's queen had left instructions saying, “Build my mausoleum. If you wish, rest with me in the same place.”
Wikipedia states that the next emperor, consumed by hatred for his father who had betrayed him, had the king's coffin placed alongside the queen's in an unprecedented burial arrangement.
This transformed what seemed the world's most beautiful mausoleum into a monument of fierce emotion.
On a whim, I wondered: Was there truly no precedent in India for a king and queen being buried together? When I searched, the AI returned a truly astonishing answer.
On a whim, I wondered: Was there truly no precedent in India for a king and queen being buried together? When I searched, the AI returned a truly astonishing answer.
In Indian history, instances of couples being buried together in the same tomb (mausoleum) are primarily seen in Islamic dynasties (such as the Mughal Empire).
Representative examples are as follows:
1. Taj Mahal (Mughal Empire)
India's most famous “couple's tomb.”
* Location: Agra
* Overview: A white marble mausoleum built by Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal Emperor, for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal after her death.
* Features: Construction took approximately 22 years after her death. Shah Jahan himself later died and was buried beside her sarcophagus in the mausoleum's underground chamber.
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2. Humayun's Tomb (Mughal Empire)
This massive mausoleum in Delhi is said to have served as a model for the Taj Mahal.
* Location: Delhi
* Overview: The tomb of Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal Empire.
* Features: Constructed by Humayun's wife, Hajji Begum. This mausoleum houses not only Humayun but also members of his family and wives, exemplifying the “family tomb/couple tomb” form of the early Mughal Empire.
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3. Tomb of Abdul Rahim Khan Khanan (Mughal Empire)
Built before the Taj Mahal, this tomb symbolizes the love between a husband and wife.
* Location: Delhi (Nizamuddin area)
* Overview: A tomb built by Abdul Rahim, a Mughal poet and military commander, to mourn his wife's death.
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4. Paired Tombs of Harappa (Ancient Indus Valley Civilization)
At the Indus Valley Civilization site, dating back approximately 4,500 years, two individuals believed to be a couple were found in the same tomb.
* Location: Rakhgarh (Haryana State)
* Overview: Excavated in 2016, this tomb dates to around 2500 BCE. The male and female skeletons were buried facing each other, “as if embracing.” This is considered an extremely rare archaeological discovery of “couple burial” in India.
From Google search results for “India dynasty tomb couple same tomb”
Representative examples are as follows:
1. Taj Mahal (Mughal Empire)
India's most famous “couple's tomb.”
* Location: Agra
* Overview: A white marble mausoleum built by Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal Emperor, for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal after her death.
* Features: Construction took approximately 22 years after her death. Shah Jahan himself later died and was buried beside her sarcophagus in the mausoleum's underground chamber.
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2. Humayun's Tomb (Mughal Empire)
This massive mausoleum in Delhi is said to have served as a model for the Taj Mahal.
* Location: Delhi
* Overview: The tomb of Humayun, the second emperor of the Mughal Empire.
* Features: Constructed by Humayun's wife, Hajji Begum. This mausoleum houses not only Humayun but also members of his family and wives, exemplifying the “family tomb/couple tomb” form of the early Mughal Empire.
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3. Tomb of Abdul Rahim Khan Khanan (Mughal Empire)
Built before the Taj Mahal, this tomb symbolizes the love between a husband and wife.
* Location: Delhi (Nizamuddin area)
* Overview: A tomb built by Abdul Rahim, a Mughal poet and military commander, to mourn his wife's death.
*
4. Paired Tombs of Harappa (Ancient Indus Valley Civilization)
At the Indus Valley Civilization site, dating back approximately 4,500 years, two individuals believed to be a couple were found in the same tomb.
* Location: Rakhgarh (Haryana State)
* Overview: Excavated in 2016, this tomb dates to around 2500 BCE. The male and female skeletons were buried facing each other, “as if embracing.” This is considered an extremely rare archaeological discovery of “couple burial” in India.
From Google search results for “India dynasty tomb couple same tomb”
Did King Shah Jahan and Queen Taj Mahal plan from the start to be buried together? Or did the King, while constructing the Taj Mahal mausoleum, decide that his own royal tomb would be this pearl mausoleum alongside Queen Taj Mahal's?
After all, with the river separating them, the white and black (as it is said they were intended to be) mausoleums would have placed them quite far apart.
I don't think that was the case.
It seems building a mausoleum solely for the queen was unusual at the time.
A beautiful pearl mausoleum was built. It's heartbreaking, but the Mughal era, marked by vows of sincere love, had other examples of joint tombs for couples.
After all, with the river separating them, the white and black (as it is said they were intended to be) mausoleums would have placed them quite far apart.
I don't think that was the case.
It seems building a mausoleum solely for the queen was unusual at the time.
A beautiful pearl mausoleum was built. It's heartbreaking, but the Mughal era, marked by vows of sincere love, had other examples of joint tombs for couples.
Long before that, around 2500 BC, in the tombs of the Indus Valley Civilization, men and women lay side by side, facing each other as if sleeping together.
So that when they awoke, they would find each other first and smile.
February 14, 2026. Rain falls on the city where I live.
On this night, the quietest of the year, draped in a beautiful silk ribbon of sentiment, the cold rain casts countless slender, straight lines of silver light, falling again and again upon the many lights.
Let's stop this rambling talk
There's only the present and the future
“Let's talk about love”
20260214 HAPPY VALENTINE DAY .
BRMC ENAMEL The Rover
There's only the present and the future
“Let's talk about love”
20260214 HAPPY VALENTINE DAY .
BRMC ENAMEL The Rover
Translated with DeepL.com (free version) .
