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Jantar Mantar
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¤ An Observatory
The Jantar Mantar was built in 1710 by Raja Jai Singh II
of Jaipur (1699-1743) in Delhi. This is an observatory
consisting of mason-built astronomical instruments to
chart the course of the heavens. Jai Singh, who was a
very scholarly king with a very keen interest in
astronomy and astrology, had other observatories built
too – in Ujjain, Jaipur, Mathura (which no longer
survives) and Varanasi.
The first among these was this one in Delhi. The yantras
(instruments, which has been distorted to Jantar) are
built of brick rubble and plastered with lime. The
yantras have evocative names like, samrat yantra, jai
prakash, ram yantra and niyati chakra; each of which are
used to for various astronomical calculations.
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