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The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24.s1.t1: (1) Jai Singh’s Observatories

The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c24.s1.t1

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(1) Jai Singh’s Observatories

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SIR R. BARKER.—An account of the Bramins’ observatory at Benares. By Sir Robert Barker. In a letter to Sir John Pringle, P.R.S. (*Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society of London*. Vol. LXVII, 1777, part ii, No. xxx, p. 598 f.)

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J. L. WILLIAMS.—*Further particulars respecting the observatory at Benares*. (*Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London*. 1793, part i, p. 45 f.)

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W. HUNTER.—Some Account of the astronomical labours of Jayasinha, Rajah of Ambhere or Jayanagar. (*Asiatic Researches or Transaction of the Society instituted in Bengal*. Vol. v, 1799, p. 177f. and p. 424.)

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*Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des Missions étrangères*. Nouvelle edition. *Mémoire des Indes*. Tome quinzième. Toulouse, 1810.

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J. TOD.—*Annals and antiquities of Rajast’han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India*. (Vol. ii, p. 345f. Annals of Amber, or Dhoondar). London, 1832.

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GARCIN DE TASSY.—*Description des monuments de Delhi en 1852*. D’après le texte Hindoustani de Saiyid Ahmed Khan. (*Journal asiatique*. Cinquième serie. Tome xvi. Decembre 1860, pp. 536-543.)

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A. ff. GARRETT AND CHANDRADHAR GULERI.—The Jaipur observatory and its Builder. Allahabad, 1902.

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SEVERIN NOTI, S. J.—Land und Volk des königlichen Astronomer Dschaisingh II Maharadscha von Dschaipur. Berlin, 1911.

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See also D’ANVILLE *Eclaircissemens géographiques*, 1753, 46f., and *Ant. Géog. de l’Inde*, 1775, 6 f.; J. BERNOULLI, *Des Pater Joseph Tieffenthalers historisch-geographische Beschreibung von Hindustan*, 1785, i, 143, 224, 246; RENNELL, *Memoir of a map of Hindoostan*, 3rd Ed. 1793, 78; *Journ. Arch. Socy.* Delhi, 1853; SIR J. HOOKER Him. *Journ.* 1854, 74-77; BAPUDEVA SĀSTRI, The Mānmandera Observatory (Pamphlet, 6 pp.), 1865; HENDLEY, *Hand-Book, Jeypore Courts*, 1886; J. BURGESS, *Indian Antiquary*, 1906, XXXV, 234-235; LALA CHIMANLAL, The Delhi and Benares observatories (Pamphlet, 14 pp.), 1912; H. G. TOMKINS, *Journ. Cal. Astr. Socy.*, 1912, 71-76.