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Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

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 the movement of celestial bodies to determine such things as time of day, prediction of monsoon rains, eclipses, and the positions of constellations. This image is a portion of the Laghu Samrat Yantra or small sundial.

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