Jaipur’s Jantar Mantar

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Close to the palaces is Jaipur’s famous Jantar Mantar one of five such astronomical observatories built by Sawai Jai Singh in India and one of the largest and best preserved. A passionate astronomer and expert in numerology Jai Singh had the massive instruments chiselled out of stone and made good with plaster. They continue 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 the passage of local and meridian times together with various attributes of heavenly bodies.

The Jantar Mantar remains a great attraction for visitors to the city.

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