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	Jantar Mantar Delhi,Jantar Mantar Tour in New Delhi
		Jantar Mantar is one of the unique structures raised in 1724 by the Maharaja of Jaipur, Jai Singh II.
		Jantar Mantar is not only a sundial of celestial bodies, but it also symbolizes the technological achievements under the Rajput kings and their endeavor to resolve the astronomical mysteries.
		Jantar Mantar being situated at Connaught Place, the heart of Delhi is accessible from all the part of the Delhi by any public or private vehicle.
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	Jantar Mantar delhi, Jantar Mantar India, Jantar Mantar tour, Jantar Mantar picture, Jantar Mantar tourist attraction, ...
		Jantar Mantar is an astronomical observatory with masonry instruments, built in 1724 by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur.
		Sawai Jai Singh II, a keen astronomer and a noble in the Moghul court, was dissatisfied by the errors of brass and metal astronomical instruments.
		The Jantar Mantar conceived, as a quest for discovering the mysteries of the Cosmos, is a corruption of the Sanskrit word yantra mantra meaning instruments and formulae.
	www.tourtravelworld.com /hot_spots/delhi/jantar_mantar (800 words)

	Jantar Mantar in Delhi India,Jantar Mantar Delhi,Jantar Mantar Tours and Travel,Delhi Jantar Mantar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jantar Mantar is a unique specimen of Indian architecture and is located at the very heart of Delhi's business district.
		This is the Jantar Mantar, one of several astronomical observatories raised by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur.
		Yet, Jantar Mantar is not only a timekeeper of celestial bodies, it also tells a lot about the technological achievements under the Rajput kings and their attempt to resolve the mysteries regarding astronomy.
	www.north-india-tourism.com /heritage-india/jantar-mantar-delhi.html (642 words)

	Jantar Mantar \| Monument \| Travel \| New Delhi \| India \| My City Pedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jantar Mantar is an astronomical observatory with mason ary instruments, built in 1724 by Jai Singh, the mathematician and astronomer king.
		Sawai Jia Singh II of Jaipur (1699-1743), a keen astronomer and a noble in the Mughal court, was dissatisfied by the errors of brass and metal astronomical instruments.
		Delhi's Jantar Mantar is the first of the five observatories that he built with large mason ary instruments.
	www.delhi-india.net /travel/jantarmantar.html (589 words)

	Jantar Mantar, Jaipur Rajasthan
		One of the five observatories of India built by Sawai Jai Singh, the leading astronomer of his times and the founder of Jaipur, Jantar Mantar of Jaipur is one of the largest and the best preserved.
		Though Jaipur is based on Shilpa Shastra, the only deviation was that the holy area reserved by the Indian architectural treatise for the temple, was used by Jai Singh to make Jantar Mantar, his observatory, which showcases both the scientific and religious aspects of the genius king.
		There are 14 gnomes or shadow indicators in Jantar Mantar that are actually sundials and each have different functions attributed to them based on similar principles.
	www.jaipur.org.uk /forts-monuments/jantar-mantar.html (284 words)

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		At the entrance to the City Palace is Jantar Mantar, the 'Yantralaya' of Sawai Jai Singh II, the last great classical astronomer in India.
		The modernistic structures known as 'Yantras' are the unique creations of this astronomer-king designed by him and built by experts to observe the movements of sun, moon, planets and the stars.
		Its massive masonry instruments are of an extraordinary precision and can still be used to measure local time, the sun's declination, azimuth and altitude, the declination of fixed stars and planets and also to determine the time of an eclipse of the sun.
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	Jantar Mantar, India Travelog
		Jantar Mantar - Explore the peculiar architecture of Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, that will surely behold your eyes for a while.
		Jantar Mantar, Jaipur is the most famous and largest of all the five observatory built by Sawai Jai Singh II Jantar Mantar was also included in my sightseeing tour and some how the tour helped me to save my time and energy.
		Jantar Mantar is the most famous and elaborate observatory of its time.
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	Jantar Mantar - Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II - Great Buildings Online
		Architectural instruments, including the 90' Samrat Jantar inclined to the latitude of 27 degrees.
		The Samrat Jantar, the largest instrument, is 90 feet high, its shadow carefully plotted to tell the time of day.
		Thoroughly restored in 1901, the Jantar Mantar was declared a national monument in 1948.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Jantar_Mantar.html (241 words)

	Jantar Mantar Jaipur, Jantar Mantar India Travel, Jantar Mantar Jaipur Rajasthan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At first glance, Jantar Mantar appears to be a curious collection of sculptures but in fact each construction has a specific purpose such as measuring the positions of stars, altitudes and azimuths, and calculating eclipses.
		The Jantar Mantar at Jaipur was conceived as a quest for discovering the mysteries of the Cosmos.
		The Jantar Mantar is a corruption of the Sanskrit word yantra mantra meaning instruments and formulae.
	www.surfindia.com /travel/rajasthan/jantar-mantar-jaipur.html (479 words)

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		Sawai Jai Singh s attempt to introduce a renaissance in astronomy through Jantar Mantar never took off due to chaos in the country.
		Jantar Mantar is located near the gate of City Palace, Jaipur.
	www.infoindiatravel.com /cities/delhi/Observatory.html (792 words)

	Jantar Mantar: Gallery
		The Jantar Mantar is like a witness stand to the over-arching beauty of the universe; the world's largest walk-through sundial, the Samrat Yantra, is in keeping with its purpose (a small sextant would have served just as well, but).
		This is gigantism with a transcendental face, born of a spirit as ambitious and engulfing as the sky itself.
		Notwithstanding its dismaying slapdash pinkification (on the lines of the Pink City, Jaipur) by the Archaeological Survey of India, the Jantar Mantar's soul is in clear-cut fl and white, light and shade, with no room for the whimsical imprecision perfected by artists as one of their many expressions of creativity.
	www.lifepositive.com /gallery/janarmantar-article.asp (368 words)

	Reviving the magic of Jantar Mantar
		Present at the signing of the MoU at Jantar Mantar were ASI's director general Ms Komal Anand and Park Hotels director Ms Priya Paul.
		The Jantar Mantar was built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh of Jaipur in 1724 in order to update the astronomical tables in his times.
		From then on, the data collected at the observatory became the basis of astronomical tables, which were used by Indian astronomers to prepare almanacs for nearly 150 years.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/20001026/fco22005.html (508 words)

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		In Sanskrit, 'Jantar Mantar' is used for 'Magical Devices' and it is undoubtedly so with the huge masonry instruments, which were placed here to measure 'the harmony of the heavens'.
		Conceived by Sawai Raja Jai Singh II, it was completed in seven years from 1728 to 1734.
	www.rajasthan-tourism.org /prime-attractions/jantar-mantar.html (352 words)

	Jaipur - Jantar Mantar - introduction - bomhard.de english (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jaipur - Jantar Mantar - introduction - bomhard.de english
		In Jairpur, the capital of the federal state Rhajasthan situated in the west of India, you will find one of the most timeless and culturally independent pieces of architecture in the world.
		The Jantar-Mantar (Sanskrit; translated as “Magical Device”) was built between 1728 and 1734 due to the drafts of Maharaja Jai Singh II (1693 -1743) in the centre of Jaipur, which itself was founded 1727 as new capital city of his principality.
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		Jantar Mantar Delhi,Heritage Monument in Delhi,Delhi Heritage Fort,Heriage Fort in Delhi,Tour to Jantar Mantar Delhi
		According to historical records, the Maharaja found the then existing astronomical instruments to record totally accurate observations and so he decided that such bigger structures should be constructed.
		The instruments at Jantar mantar are fascinating for their novel approach, though as opf today, they cannot be relied upon to give the kind of accuracy that they gave then because of the growth of multistoreyed structures around it which block the avenues of measurement.
	www.north-india-tour-package.com /delhi-tourism/jantar-mantar.html (874 words)

	Ancient India
		A brief Introduction to the observatory is followed by notes on Jai Singh, the meaning of the name "Jantar Mantar," and Additional Resources for further exploration.
		A selection of instruments is described in the following pages: Laghu Samrat Yantra, Chakra Yantra, Kapali Yantra, Ram Yantra, Narivalaya Yantra, Jai Prakash Yantra, and Rashivalaya Yantra.
		Jantar means "instrument." Mantar (the same word as "mantra") is usually translated "formula," but here it means "calculation." So, "Jantar Mantar" means something like "instrument for calculation."
	www.art-and-archaeology.com /india/jaipur/jan1.html (862 words)

	Jantar Mantar 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jantar Mantar is the name given the monumental masonry observatories built in India during the reign of Maharajah jai Singh II (1699-1743).
		Jai Singh built these large-scale versions of astronomical instruments at several sites in Northern India including Delhi, Varanasi, Ujjain, Mathura, and his own city of Jaipur.
		Their walls, interiors, steps, and levels serve to place the observer within a mirror of the heavens.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/bap8/Jantar_1.htm (120 words)

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	Jantar Mantar Jaipur - a Gardens Guide review
		Jantar Mantar Jaipur - a Gardens Guide review
		: The Jantar Mantar is an astronomical garden observatory.
		The name, from Sanskrit, can be translated as 'Magical Device'.
	www.gardenvisit.com /ge/jantar_mantar_jaipur.htm (78 words)

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		Guide Map of Jantar Mantar (Map not to scale)
		Set amidst a garden of stately palms, these masonry instruments were built by Mirza Raja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, a keen astronomer in 1725.
		This ancient observatory is walking distance down Sansad Marg from Connaught Place.
	www.ndmc.gov.in /area_jantar.htm (106 words)

	India, part 8: Jaipur: Jantar Mantar
		The Jantar Mantar observatory, built between 1728 and 1734 by Maharaja Sawai Singh in the early eighteenth centure for astronomical/astrological observations, is one of the world's great sculpture gardens.
		The images below are somewhat repetitive, but I found the groupings of people fascinating.
		He has been involved with photography since 1964.
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	Showkase- India's PhotoGallery on 18th centurey Jantar Mantar, for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Showkase- India's PhotoGallery on 18th centurey Jantar Mantar, for sale
		"The masonry instruments that are the "Jantar Mantar", vary in size from a few feet to 90 feet in height, and are Maharaja Jai Singh's chief work.
		Jai Singh discarded brass instruments, and built massive masonry ones in their place; his reasons appeared to be, but were not altogether, sound.
	www.internetindia.com /ashowkase/jant.htm (143 words)

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		The Jantar Mantar in Jaipur is the largest and best preserved of five observatories built by Jai Singh throughout northern India.
		It contains 13 different instruments for calculating such things as the time of day, the altitudes of heavenly bodies, and the positions of constellations.
		India Profile article "Jantar Mantar-Time Keeper of Celestial Bodies"
	www.judypat.com /india/jantar.htm (363 words)

	Richard I'Anson Posters Prints - Structure of Jantar Mantar, or Observatory, Built in 1710, Delhi, India Art ...
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	jantar mantar in delhi, jantar mantar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jantar Mantar is an astronomical observatory with masonary instruments, built in 1724 by Jai Singh, the mathematician and astronomer king.
		The Samrat and Yantra supreme instrument, the largest structure shaped like a right-angled triangle, is actually a huge sun-dial; the other five instruments are intented to show the movements of the sun, moon etc.
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	www.delhihotels.net /jantar.htm (78 words)

	Jantar Mantar \| Photo
		It's really amazing and the structures look like an M.C. Escher paintings.
		I think what I'm standing in is used to measure the angles between stars (Or as the plaques in Jantar Mantar call them, "The Heavenly Bodies").
		This is a quiet time with less traffic.
	www.travelblog.org /Photos/210773.html (181 words)

	Jantar Mantar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jantar Mantar,(sandskrit magical device) one of the five observatories built in 1718 by Sawai Jai Singh an avid astronomer, to study the movements of stars.
		This one is the largest and the best preserved observatory.
		This gallery was created with AlbumWeb Pro program [www.photoactions.com]
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