Towards the southern side of the Lake Pichola is Jagmandir, an island palace finally completed by Maharana Jagat Singh (1628-1652) and named after him. On the eastern end of the island is the edifice built for prince Khurram, before he became Emperor Shah Jahan, when he took shelter at Udaipur, to revolt against his father Jahangir. The walls of the palace are made of stone slabs of almost translucent thinness that were once inlaid with jasper, jade and rubies. It has spacious courtyards, domed high-ceilinged rooms, sprawling gardens and arched pavilions embellished with fading frescoes. During the first war of independence in 1857 A.D. Maharana Swaroop Singh used the Palace as an asylum for several European families. It is also said that Shah Jahan derived some of his ideas for the Taj Mahal from this palace.