The Untold History Of The Qutubminar

RASHTRA BHAW

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The Qutubminar, one of the archeological glories of the India, is a well-known historical and tourism site where thousands of Indians and foreigners visit daily. Historically, a good importance is given to the Qutubminar by both school books as well as by researchers but unfortunately there a huge scope, to go earlier than we think about the site, is left untouched or ignored. The Indian history and historical archeology suffered the biggest trauma when India, after independence, accepted the historical surveys and conclusions of an Anglo historian named Cunningham as true and perfect history even after the arguments of many historians that the historical reports of Cunningham were full of flaws because of his foreign origin and lack of broad cultural experience. The Qutub complex also suffered from the same mistake.
In spite of the fame and popularity of The Qutubminar, most of the people and students across India don’t know much more about the Qutub corridor. This Qutub corridor, which is currently known as Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque, is also a glorious archeological specimen with illustration of the Hindu gods and deities. The history, as being taught nowadays, says that the Qutub complex, which was the part of Chauhan rulers’ Lal-Kot, was destroyed by the first Muslim ruler Qutubddin Aibak in 1192, a slave of Muhammad Gauri. The Qutubminar is also said to be constructed by Qutubddin Aibak. Historians assumed that the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque was made with the debris of destroyed Hindu Temples but this less talked historical story doesn’t seem able to satisfy many questions by the historians and unconnected links of the story. The clear pictures of Hindu gods and deities like Shri Ganesh, Vishnu, Yaksha and symbols like kalash, temple wells and sacred lotus witnesses the Hindu origin of the building. If the mosque was constructed by the muslim invaders with the debris of temples, as many claim, the fine friezes on the stones should not be in such good order and maintained. Mainly the faces of Gods and deities are broken and rest all parts are maintained safe till now. If this part of the site was completely destroyed, the bodies of the statues and the order of other arts should not remain safe. The inner part of the mosque also has a completely different architect than any mosque. The corridor is completely of vedic style having rectangular galleries with holy symbol engraved pillars. Thus the only thing, seeing the Arabic fonts on the wall, can be said is that the name Quwwat-ul-Islam was given to one of the 27 temples left existing in a converted form. The remaining 26 temples surrounding the Qutubminar were destroyed almost completely.
The famous late historian P.N Oak says in his work that the Qutubminar along with the destroyed 27 temples was also an Indian observatory existed centuries before Qutubddin Aibak. Many other historians have also approved the minaret as an observatory site earlier known as Vishnu Stambh alias Dhruv Stambh in ancient India, the name Vishnudhwaja is also engraved on iron pillar situated in the premises. The writing in Bramhi script on iron pillar talks about glorious Hindu King Chandragupt admitted as Chandragupt Vikramaditya who erected the pillar. The script reveals that the pillar was erected on a hill Vishnupadgiri means the place with the foot print of Lord Vishnu. This possibly refers to the Vaman Avtaar of the Lord Vishnu. Few historians suggest Udaygiri of Madhya Pradesh as original Vishnupadgiri sight where the pillar was carried from. But this assumption lacks a solid ground because of numerous reasons. The pillar is situated on a sight looks a well-planned part of the complex. The pillar seems in just center when seen from the gate of Quwwat-ul-Islam. The pillar is still situated in the site even after destruction of all other structures which shows that the efforts to extirpate the pillar by muslim invaders failed, definitely because of its strong scientific establishment. The unsuccessful efforts to draw Arabic on the pillar are very evident.
P.N Oak says that both Iron pillar and Qutubminar were made by Chandragupt Vikramadity and are contemporary. The current Mehrauli, area where the Qutub minar is situated, basically derived from the Sanskrit word Mihiraavali’ literally means the hill of/for Mihir. Mihir alias Varah Mihir was the famous mathematician and scientist in Vikramaditya’s court who wrote the famous book ‘Vrihatsamhitayam’. Thus the Qutubminar complex was an observatory and qutubminar was its part which initially had seven stories representing the seven days of the week or seven main planets, two upper stories were dismantled by Firozshah Tuglaq and ruins were later used to try to erect a similar minaret which stands nearby.
Professor M.S Bhatnagar of Ghaziabad hired a helicopter in 1964 and inspected the Qutubminar from just top and found that side erections of the minaret basically form a 24 leaves lotus shape, a well-known spiritual and architectural sign repeatedly referred in Hindu karmkaand, yoga and architect. These 24 leaves are basically 24 horas or hours of a day. It’s noteworthy that the word hour is a product of the word hora which was adopted in Greek from Sanskrit as same. Twelve complete dials of the structure on the ground refers to twelve zodiacs of the astrological science. The 27 temples were actually sites for 27 Nakshatra or constellations. Many scholars assume these temples as Jain temples because of the Jain statues found there but in fact these were the centers of astronomical research instead worshiping sites because the architect had both Hindu and Jain statues in Vedic style. Jain Aagams have also been famous for a lot of knowledge.
The gate of the minaret has lotus flowers on the either side; the other part also contains many such vedic symbols and designs which were never the part of muslim architect especially just at the time muslims entered here. The description on Iron pillar indicates that a Vishnu statue was established in the central part of the construction. About 1960, a great black Vishnu statue was recovered from the Qutubminar which currently under custody of ASI, the whole information was kept secret.
The purpose of building such tower is still unknown. Few claim it muizzin tower for calling muslims to namaz but in fact the height of tower proves it ridiculous as it’s not possible to hear the voice of a man standing on such height. Furthermore, the muslim mosque towers are always plain in design against the Qutubminar. Also, the main illusion comes from Arabic inscription on the minaret but it is clear from the inscriptions itself that this is the work of descendant rulers after Qutubuddin Aibak like Firozshah Tuglaq in 1368 and Sikander Lodi in 1503 and not an original part of the minaret. P.N Oak also suggests that the name Qutubminar also doesn’t connect to Qutubuddin instead it refers to the Arabic word ‘Qutub’ means direction. Qutubuddin himself told in his inscription that he destroyed temples at the site but he nowhere said that he built any such tower. This was a single word ‘Qutub’ which confused Cunningham about the minaret. The Alai darwaja, known as built by Allauddin, was originally Alaya Dwar and was again twisted by Cunningham even after the fact that Allauddin never claimed anywhere that he built any such gate. Thus flaws of Cunningham’s assumptions are still part of Indian history and nobody in power thought about reconsidering the facts and redefining the glorious Indian history. Recompiling the hidden parts of the Qutubminar will not only make us aware of true history but may also lead us towards an extinct Indian science.
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