Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

Jantar Mantar, the Astronomical Observatory Centre, is the largest of the five in India. The observatory consists of fourteen major geometric devices for measuring time, predicting eclipses, tracking stars in their orbits, ascertaining the declinations of planets, and determining the celestial altitudes, etc.

Different types of sundials, front and behind

The position of the shadow shows the time.
It was around 3.00pm at the time.

Spherical sundial

Vertical sundial


See the dark spot on the first ‘rib’ on the right?
It is supposed to tell the location of …(arh, forgotten!)