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3/1/05 10:46 am The guides, beside opening the locked doors, doesn't seem to have much use. But they only charge 50 rupees per palace.
According to commnn belief Jehangir Mahal was, constructed for Jehangir's cecephon by Vemingh Deo I. It is square in plan, with four bashons at each corner, which end in a ribbed dome at the top and have four kiosks at the corners of the base of the dome. The chhajja on the first storey is held by a series of elephant brackets at regular intervals on all sides.
AI1 the chambers of this palace had been decorated with paintings, the remains of which are visible only in a few rooms. The Jehangir Mahal is the culminating point of the evolution of medieval-Indo-Islamic architecture, an example of harmonized imagination and organized execution.
