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Plate 3 : Coping from Madho-Bilas and Cenotaph of Maharaja Sawai Jaysingh at Jaipur

Coping from Madho-Bilas at jaipur

Jeypore, Jaipur, or Jayapur (City of Victory but so named from its founder-Jaysingh), the present capital of the Rajput State of the same name, is about 144 miles west from Agra, and was founded by Raja Sawai Jaysingh, about A.D. 1728. It was laid out by the great Raja on a regular plan of six great square blocks, in two rows of three cach, divided by main streets 110 feet wide, intersecting at right angles. One block, in the centre of one side, about half a mile in length, was reserved for the Palace buildings, Observatory, &c. The other blocks are intersected by secondary streets 55 feet wide, and the smaller square blocks thus formed are again divided by lanes 271 feet wide, also at right angles. It is surrounced by lofty crenellated masonry walls, and at the ends of the main streets are six gates-handsome, lofty masonry structures, exactly similar to one another. The population, exclusive of the suburbs is about 125,000. Madho-Bilas is part of the Palace in Jeypore erected by Maharaja Madhusingh, who ruled A.D. 1760-1778.

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