The 350-year-old Taj Mahal, which has weathered many a storm over the centuries, could not bear a bit of jostling by a monkey.
A monkey brought down a flower vase carved atop the sandstone turret on the main entrance gate of the monument.
The incident occurred on Sunday morning when a leap by a monkey literally severed the flower vase from the steep turret and brought it down. It is said that the three-and-a-half century-old mortar used to fix the flower vase on the turret easily gave way under the monkeys weight.
Fortunately, it did not hurt anyone. The passage below is the routine entrance for thousands of tourists visiting the Taj every day, Archaeological Survey of India official B Vikram told rediff.com over telephone from Agra.
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