Jantar Mantar

3.5km. Emperor Sawai jai Singh II, the builder of the city, has to his credit five observatories in different parts of the country. The one he built at Jaipur is the largest and the best preserved. Huge instruments in intricate masonry offer an accurate measurement of time, the declination of the sun, the altitude and the azimuth, the positions of constellations in the sky for the day, the eclipses and allied astronomical phenomena.  

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