The observatory ... were used to determine time, date, position of stars in the 17th century. At a time when smartphones and technology have simplified our lives, places like Jantar Mantar blend ...

Pre-telescopic astronomical instruments at Jantar Mantar from ... structure of the observatory that measures time and declination of the sun; the “Ram Yantra”, which is used to measure the ...

astronomical observations were regularly made here and these observations were used for drawing up a new set of tables. Jai Singh named his observatory Jantar Mantar (yantra standing for ...

Jaipur's Jantar Mantar, the biggest astronomical observatory in India which entered ... He maintained that local stones, from Andhi near Jaipur, used in the structure were of poor quality and ...

Till a few years ago, protesters from the "other India" used ... Jantar Mantar, one of four early 18th century observatories that forms the backdrop of all the churning and violence. The ...

A meeting of the expert committee formed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for conservation, preservation and restoration of the Jantar Mantar observatory ... which are used to predict ...

The Jantar Mantar observatory in Jaipur constitutes the most significant and best preserved set of fixed monumental instruments built in India in the first half of the 18th century; some of them are ...