The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh c5.40

c5.40

Seeing that very important affairs both regarding religion and the administration of empire depend upon these; and that in the time of the rising and setting of the planets, and the seasons of eclipses of the sun and moon, many considerable disagreements of a similar nature were found—he represented it to his Majesty of dignity and power, the sun of the firmament of felicity and dominion, the splendour of the forehead of imperial magnificence, the unrivalled pearl of the sea of sovereignty, the incomparably brightest star of the heaven of empire, whose standard is the sun, whose retinue the moon, whose lance is Mars and his pen like Mercury with attendants like Venus, whose threshold is the sky, whose signet is Jupiter, whose sentinel Saturn—the Emperor descended from a long race of kings, an Alexander in dignity, the shadow of God, the victorious king MUḤAMMĀD SHĀH¹: May he ever be triumphant in battle.²