Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of IndiaTod, James
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 3 of 3: or the Central and Western Rajput States of India
Tod, James
Rajasthan (India) -- History; Rajput (Indic people) -- History
[For these observatories see A. ff. Garrett and Pandit Chandradha
Guleri, _The Jaipur Observatory and its Builder_, Allahabad, 1902;
Fanshawe, _Delhi Past and Present_, 247 f.; Sherring, _The Sacred City
of the Hindus_, 131 ff. The observatory at Mathura was in the Fort,
but it has disappeared; at Ujjain only scanty remains exist (Growse,
_Mathura_, 3rd ed. 140; _IGI_, xviii. 73, xxiv. 113).]
Footnote 9.2.5:
[Ulugh Beg, son of Shāh Rukh and grandson of Amīr Timūr, succeeded his
father A.D. 1447, and was put to death by his son, Mīrza Abdul Latīf,
in 1449. His astronomical tables were published in Latin by John
Gregory, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, and were edited by Thomas
Hyde in 1665 (Sykes, _Hist. of Persia_, ii. 218; _EB_, 11th ed. xxvii.
573 f.).]
Footnote 9.2.6:
It would be worth ascertaining whether the archives of Lisbon refer to
this circumstance.
Footnote 9.2.7:
Second edition, published in A.D. 1702. Jai Singh finished his in A.D.
1728.
Footnote 9.2.8:
Jai Singh always speaks of himself in the third person.
Footnote 9.2.9:
[Young, _Night Thoughts_, ix. 771.]
Footnote 9.2.10:
See “Account of the Astronomical Labours of Jya Sing, Raja of Amber,”
by Dr. W. Hunter (_Asiatic Researches_, vol. v. p. 177), to whom I
refer the reader for the description of the instruments used by the
Raja. The Author has seen those at Delhi and Mathura. There is also an
equinoctial dial constructed on the terrace of the palace of Udaipur,
and various instruments at Kotah and Bundi, especially an armillary
sphere, at the former, of about five feet diameter, all in brass, got
up under the scholars of Jai Singh. Dr. Hunter gives a most
interesting account of a young pandit, whom he found at Ujjain, the
grandson of one of the coadjutors of Jai Singh, who held the office of
Jyotishrae, or Astronomer-Royal, and an estate of five thousand rupees
annual rent, both of which (title and estate) descended to this young
man; but science fled with Jai Singh, and the barbarian Mahrattas had
rendered his estate desolate and unproductive. He possessed, says Dr.
H., a thorough acquaintance with the Hindu astronomical science
contained in the various Siddhantas, and that not confined to the
mechanical practice of rules, but founded on a geometrical knowledge
of their demonstration. This inheritor of the mantle of Jai Singh died
at Jaipur, soon after Dr. Hunter left Ujjain, in A.D. 1793.
Footnote 9.2.11:
J. Scott, in his excellent history of the successors of Aurangzeb [ed.
1794, ii. 156 ff.], gives a full account of this tragical event, on
which I have already touched in Vol. I. p. 474 of this work;
where I have given a literal translation of the autograph letter of
Raja Jai Singh on the occasion.
Footnote 9.2.12:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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