Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, India




Taken with Canon powershot A75, dated Nov 2005


Jantar Mantar is an astronomical garden observatory, has a remarkable collection of architectural astronomical instruments. It was built by the Maharaja Jai Singh, and each instruments built by stone and marble with an astronomical scale on the inner lining of each device to observe the movements of sun, moon, planets and stars.

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