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Cosmic architecture in India: the astronomical monuments of Maharaja Jai Singh II

by  Andreas Volwahsen

Table Of Contents

  • Precursors and models
  • Egypt
  • Stonehenge
  • Uaxactun, Guatemala, before AD 150
  • Copan, Honduras, before AD 900
  • Chichen Itza, Mexico, 10the century AD
  • Rome
  • Rei, AD 994
  • Maragha, 13th century AD
  • Samarkand, 1417
  • Uraniborg, c.1580
  • Stjerneborg, 1548
  • Peking, 13th-17th century
  • Maharaja Jai Singh II and his observatiories
  • The observatory in the palace of Jaipur
  • The Rama Yantra
  • The Digamsa Yantra
  • The Samrat Yantra
  • The Shastansha Yantra
  • The Dakshino Bhitti Yantra
  • The Narivalaya Uttar Gola Yantra
  • The small Jai prakash Yantra
  • The great Jai Prakash Yantras
  • The Unnatansha Yantra
  • The Rashi Valaya Yantras
  • History of the Jaipur observatory
  • The instruments of the Delhi observatory
  • The great Samrat Yantra
  • The Jai Prakash yantras
  • The Rama Yantras
  • The Mishra Yantra
  • The observatory in Benares
  • The observatory in Yhhaub
  • The observatory in Mathura
  • The observatory of Jai Singh in Jaipur
  • A new attempt at interpretation
  • The town of Jaipur
  • The Mandala as a Yantra
  • The ground plan
  • The individual building
  • Architectural models
  • Model of the great Samrat Yantra
  • Models of the small Samrat Yantra
  • Models of the Narivalaya Uttar Gola
  • Model of the Rashi Valaya Yantras
  • Model of Rama Yantra
  • Model of the Dakshino Bhitti yantra
  • Models of the Jai Prakash yantras
  • Model of the Unnatansha Yantra
  • Model of the Digamsa Yantra
  • Construction methods
  • Construction method for the great Rama Yantras
  • Bonding the stone
  • Staircases
  • Wages and building costs
  • The Keel arch
  • Stone and masonry forms
  • The observatories of Jai Singh in Bernares and Delhi

Subject

Design and construction / Architecture and cosmology / Observatories / Architecture, Modern / 17th-18th centuries

Details

Published Ahmedabad, India : Mapin, 2001
Language English
Material 158 p.
ISBN 8185822875
Location
NA 1502 V944 2001 C.1
TCDC Bangkok - General Collection
NA 1502 V944 2001 C.2
In Process - TCDC Bangkok Transit

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