Jantar Mantar off Janpath and Connaught Place in Delhi: observatory of yore

From the archive record

This is surely one of the most ignored monuments of ours in Delhi! The Jantar Mantar, also a logo of the Asian games of 1982, is an equinoctial sundial, consisting of a gigantic triangular gnomon with the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis, built by Maharaja Jai Singh II of Jaipur, from 1723 onwards, revising the calendar and astronomical tables. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion and Full HD. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast