The Jantar Mantar is a collection of architectural
astronomical instruments, built by Sawai Jai Singh who was a Mughal Commander
and served Emperor Aurangzeb and later Mughals. The title of (King) and Sawai was
bestowed on him by Emperor Mohammad Shah. Jai Singh II of Amber built his new capital of Jaipur between 1727
and 1734. It is also located in Ujjain and Mathura.
It
is modeled after the one that he had built at the Mughal capital of Delhi. He had constructed a total of five such facilities at
different locations, including the ones at Delhi and Jaipur. The Jaipur
observatory is the largest and best preserved of these. It has been inscribed
on the World Heritage List as "an expression of the astronomical skills and
cosmological concepts of the court of a scholarly prince at the end of the
Mughal period". Early
restoration work was undertaken under the supervision of Major Arthur Garrett, a keen amateur astronomer, during his
appointment as Assistant State Engineer for the Jaipur District. (more… see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantar_Mantar_(Jaipur)
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