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The massive salmon colored Jantar Mantar, was built in the year 1725 by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur. He was a keen astronomer and this observatory is dominated by a huge sundial better known as the Prince of Dials. The other instruments define the course of heavenly bodies and predict eclipses.