Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
Across the road from the palaces is the famous JANTAR MANTAR one of the
five observatories in India . Built by Sawai Jai Singh, this is one of the
largest and the best preserved. A passionate hobby of the king in the field
of Astronomy, numerology, insighted him to execute this observatory and
with the help of skilled labourers, they managed to create a collection
of complex astronomical instruments chiselled out of stone and most of which
continues to provide accurate information to this day. The most striking
instrument is the Brihat Samrat yantra Sundial, an imposing yellow edifice
to the far right of the observatory complex which has a 27m high gnomon
arm set at an angle of 27degree.The shadow this casts moves up to 4m in
an hour, and aids in the calculation of local and meridian pass time and
various attributes of the heavenly bodies, including declination the angular
distance of a heavenly body from the celestial equator and altitude. This
highlight of the observatory has made it a centre of attraction for the
tourist visiting Jaipur.
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