Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, India

Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

Fourteen astronomical instruments contrived by Jai Singh II in the early 1730s. They tell time (to within 20 seconds), position stars, track the trajectory of planets.

These photos were taken in the summer of 2010.

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  1. When I saw it a couple of years earlier it was all red brick with limestone capping

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