I believe, the palace is the place where the culture begins. This palace is consist of so many portions like poomukam (reception), plamootil kottaram, veppinmooda kottaram (living room), thai kottaram (Queen mother's palace), uttupura (kitchen and dining hall), homappura (prayer hall), uppirikkal malika (multi-storeyed buildings), ayuddhapura(armoury house), chandravilasam, navarathil vilasam, thekke kottaram, clock tower and so on.
There is a brass horse lamp tied in brass chain hanging from the roof on the reception, Even its hanging from the top it won't rotate randomly in all directions, the direction of the lamp is set by the users according to their need, it has a lock in its brass chain for this purpose. This reception has few wooden greeting cards of the king, and a stone bed which was used by the king during hot summer days.
It has a huge dining hall where 200 to 300 people eat a time and a very big kitchen, it seems that more than 100 people will come in and go out for any kind of work to the palace in daily basis, and 3 times the cooks where preparing food for all those people, think when we are preparing food in home at-least for 3 to 4 we are wasting so many foods, and this scenario is totally different and they need to cook food approximate people daily and to control food wastage too.
It consists of so many wooden carving, one of that has 24 different flowers carving in one wood on the pooja hall roof.
Next comes the queen's mothers palace, this is the oldest building in their entire palace. It is a 4 storey building, the ground floor is a discussion room, the first floor has queen mothers bed, the second floor has prayer hall and the third floor is reading place.
They built the rooms with attached toilets in the first floor. ( wondering about their architecture and how they provide the pipelines for drainage outlet from the first floor). Each block has minimum two floors. Clocktower is the highest portion of that palace. This clock is more than 300 years old, and it is in working condition.Next comes the queen's mothers palace, this is the oldest building in their entire palace. It is a 4 storey building, the ground floor is a discussion room, the first floor has queen mothers bed, the second floor has prayer hall and the third floor is reading place.
Navarathri Mandapam is the place where the king and his family members watch drama's and dance or listen to music during Navratri days. this mandapam has a separate room (green rooms) for the performers to get ready.
This palace has a secret passage to charottu kottaram, which helps the king and his immediate family members and their entourage could escape to charottu kottaram, located several kilometers away in the event of an emergency.
It takes at least a day to go through the entire palace and find the reason for their architecture. and also to look at the wooden carvings, I don't want to make this post too long and say everything to reduce your curiosity on visiting this palace. please go and take a look and admire the king's way of living.
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