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We walked into a second courtyard up the main stairway of the first level courtyard which houses the Diwan-i-Am (Public Audience Hall) with rather exquisite double row columns on a raised platform with twenty seven colonnades, each of which mounted with elephant shaped capitols.
The third courtyard had two buildings separated by a Mughal-type garden. The first one on the left exhibiting walls which were exquisitely embellished by glass inlaid panels and multi-coloured ceilings with carved marble relief panels around the walls of the hall.
We were called the attention to one particular detail - the "magic flower" fresco carved in marble at the base of one of the pillars around the Mirror Palce, because of it having seven unique designs of a fish tail, a hooded cobra, an elephant trunk, a lion's tail, a cob of corn and ascorpion, each of each viewed in a particular perspective.
The other building - The Jai Mandir (Hall of Victory) had a glittering stucco ceiling with elegant inlaid panels with mirro pieces.
(To be continued)
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