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Jai Singh was born in 1688 at Amber in the region of Rajasthan that is now Jaipur. He ascended the throne when he was 12 years old, following the death of his father, Bishan Singh. The young king was bright, eager to learn, and socially and politically astute. Among his many later accomplishments, he founded the city of Jaipur which bears his name, and was responsible for much of it’s design.
India at this time was under the rule of the Mughals who distributed their power through the leaders of existing dynasties such as the Rajputs, Marathas, Pashtuns, and Sikhs. As a young man, Jai Sing, who came from the royal family of the Kacchawahas, led his troops to support the emperor Aurangzeb who was carrying out a campaign against the Marathas in the Deccan. It was during this campaign, around 1700, that Jai Singh met Pandit Jagannatha Samrat, who became his guru and later his chief advisor in matters of astronomy. At the end of the campaign, Jagannatha accompanied Jai Singh back to Amber, where he expanded his knowledge through the study of Jai Singh’s extensive collection of Islamic texts. As jai Singh’s chief astronomer, Jagannatha was a major influence in the design of the jantar Mantar, and the two men remained lifelong friends.
In the early 1700s, when Jai Singh conceived of his ambitious observatory project, the telescope had been in use by astronomers in Europe for over 100 years. Why then, did this highly educated ruler, who knew of the telescope and it’s applications in European astronomy, choose naked eye observation as the basis for his observatories?
One has to appreciate the culture in which Jai Singh lived. It is a culture that throughout its history has embraced the richness of sensory experience in its arts and sciences - exemplified in the precise and complex forms that developed in art, architecture, and music. Observation of natural phenomena, including the apparent movement of stars and planets became a part of the Hindu’s world view, and informed a myriad of life processes from agricultural practices, to religious rituals, to personal decisions of when and who to marry.
For astrologers, the tables known by the arabic term Zij, which indicated the positions of
Jai Singh was born in 1688 at Amber in the region of Rajasthan that is now Jaipur. He ascended the throne when he was 12 years old, following the death of his father, Bishan Singh. The young king was bright, eager to learn, and socially and politically astute. Among his many later accomplishments, he founded the city of Jaipur which bears his name, and was responsible for much of it’s design.
India at this time was under the rule of the Mughals who distributed their power through the leaders of existing dynasties such as the Rajputs, Marathas, Pashtuns, and Sikhs. As a young man, Jai Sing, who came from the royal family of the Kacchawahas, led his troops to support the emperor Aurangzeb who was carrying out a campaign against the Marathas in the Deccan. It was during this campaign, around 1700, that Jai Singh met Pandit Jagannatha Samrat, who became his guru and later his chief advisor in matters of astronomy. At the end of the campaign, Jagannatha accompanied Jai Singh back to Amber, where he expanded his knowledge through the study of Jai Singh’s extensive collection of Islamic texts. As jai Singh’s chief astronomer, Jagannatha was a major influence in the design of the jantar Mantar, and the two men remained lifelong friends.
In the early 1700s, when Jai Singh conceived of his ambitious observatory project, the telescope had been in use by astronomers in Europe for over 100 years. Why then, did this highly educated ruler, who knew of the telescope and it’s applications in European astronomy, choose naked eye observation as the basis for his observatories?
One has to appreciate the culture in which Jai Singh lived. It is a culture that throughout its history has embraced the richness of sensory experience in its arts and sciences - exemplified in the precise and complex forms that developed in art, architecture, and music. Observation of natural phenomena, including the apparent movement of stars and planets became a part of the Hindu’s world view, and informed a myriad of life processes from agricultural practices, to religious rituals, to personal decisions of when and who to marry.
For astrologers, the tables known by the arabic term Zij, which indicated the positions of
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Jantar Mantar observatory in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II was the king of the Amber which was the Rajput State in Rajasthan. Sawai Jai Singh II, the extraordinary Ruler of Jaipur, was a city planner, mathematician, and a remarkable scientist. He set up the prestigious observatories identified as Jantar Mantar and built the metropolis which is named as Jaipur. This observatory features largest stones of the world and perceived as Sundial and also known as world's heritage site by UNESCO.
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