Jantar Mantar

JANTAR MANTAR

The Jantar Mantar in Jaipur is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, built by Maharaja (King) Jai Singh II at his then new capital of Jaipur between 1727 and 1734. It is sculpt 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 and has a set of some 20 main fixed instruments built in brick work. It has been inscribed as cultural property on the UNESCO World Heritage List as "an expression of the astronomical skills and perspective concepts of the court of a scholarly prince at the end of the Mughal period.'' This appreciable monument consisting of all those ancient buildings that provide us with all those traditional ways to predict season , climates, time etc provides the tourists with a fantaboulous experience and many memorable traditional techniques.