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If they stood apart, each would be considered a master-work; as it is, however, they lose in attraction by their proximity to the Taj- Mehal, of which a traveller says, with full justice: "It is too pure, too sacred, too perfect, to have been constructed by men's hands angels must have brought it from heaven; and one imagines there ought to be a glass shade over it, to protect it from every breath and every wind."
When she died it was buried with her not in the tomb itself, but in the Taj Mehal; and for a century or so it lay there and gathered legends about it as thick as dust. It was believed to be a talisman of good fortune especially in love. "It had age; it had intrinsic value; it had beauty, and that one other quality no man can resist it was the only thing of its kind in the world.
If the beautiful Taj Mehal at Agra should be destroyed by vandals, the intelligent portion of humanity would be profoundly shocked, even though the hand of man could at will restore the shrine of sorrowing love.
Two gateways and two mosques stand at a small distance from the Taj- Mehal. They are built of red sandstone and white marble.
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