Jantar Mantar (Yantra Mantra) is an Indian equinoctial sundial, consisting a gigantic triangular gnomon with the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis.
Jantar Mantar may also refer to:
Observatories
- Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, houses world's largest stone sundial, a UNESCO World Heritage site
- Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, it consists of 13 architectural astronomy instruments
- Jantar Mantar, Varanasi, observatory built in the year 1737
- Jantar Mantar, Ujjain or Ved Shala, observatory built in the year 1725
Film
- Jantar Mantar (1964 film), a 1964 Indian Hindi-language film
Public art
- Jantar-Mantar, public art work by sculptor Narendra Patel, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
See also
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