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[[File:Gyarah Siddi.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Gyarah Sidhi near [[Mehtab Bagh]].]]<br />
'''Gyarah Sidhi''' ({{Literal translation|Eleven steps}}) are the remains of the astronomical [[observatory]] of the [[Mughal Emperor]] [[Humayun]]. The ruins are situated at a stone's throw from [[Babur]]’s [[Mehtab Bagh]], in a field on the banks of the [[Yamuna river]] in [[Agra]].<ref name="Outlook">{{cite web |title=Humayun’s observatory |url=http://traveller.outlookindia.com/destinationlink.aspx?id=168&destinationid=44&pagenum=2 |website=Outlook Traveller |access-date=18 July 2024 |archive-date=15 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715023650/http://traveller.outlookindia.com/destinationlink.aspx?id=168&destinationid=44&pagenum=2 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Rangan">{{cite news |last1=Datta |first1=Rangan |title=Agra beyond the Taj: Exploring tombs and gardens on the left bank of Yamuna |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/places/agra-beyond-the-taj-exploring-tombs-and-gardens-on-the-left-bank-of-yamuna/cid/2031729 |access-date=18 July 2024 |agency=My Kolkata |publisher=The Telegraph |date=5 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="Agra">{{cite web |title=Gyarah Sidi Agra |url=https://agratourism.in/gyarah-sidi-agra |website=Agra Tourism |access-date=18 July 2024}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
Gyarah Sidhi or Eleven Steps refers to the steps overlooking the hemispherical cavities in the ground from which astronomical readings could be taken. Though nowhere close to their size, Humayun's observatory is an interesting, diminutive precursor to the massive [[Yantra Mandir|Jantar Mantars]] at [[Jaipur]] and [[Delhi]] built nearly 200 years later.<br />
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==Humayun and astronomy==<br />
[[Humayun]] was absorbed in astrology and astronomy, manifesting his passion in the most eccentric way. The business at court was not conducted according to exigencies of matter on hand but deferred to the planets:<br />
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*Sunday and Tuesday for government - As the sun regulates sovereignty and Mars is the patron of soldiers.<br />
*Saturday and Thursday were devoted to matters of religion.<br />
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He even went so far as dressing himself and his ministers according to the colours of the planets associated with particular days.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Jantar Mantar (Jaipur)]]<br />
* [[Jantar Mantar, Delhi]]<br />
* [[Humanyun Mosque]]<br />
* [[List of astronomical observatories]]<br />
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