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Jantar Mantar is the historic observatory commissioned by Sawai Jai Singh II. Its large masonry instruments were made for naked-eye astronomical observation and it sits beside the City Palace in the old city.
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UNESCO-listed observatory with monumental stone instruments.
Jantar Mantar is the historic observatory commissioned by Sawai Jai Singh II. Its large masonry instruments were made for naked-eye astronomical observation and it sits beside the City Palace in the old city.