**It was cast in 1720 during the reign of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II (1699-1743) at the foundry at Jaigarh. Its 20 ft long barrel weighs 50 tons with a diameter of 11 inches.
Its range is 22 miles and 100 Kg gun powder was used for one fire. Though a destructive weapon, it is beautifully decorated with carving sorrow tress and an elephant on the mouth scroll on the body and a pair of birds at the end. This is a unique art piece made by skilled craftsmen of Amber.
The work to place this barrel was done during the reign of Maharaja Ram Singh II (1835-1880). He also got this cover area prepared for this unusually large cannon.
Its 9ft high wheel has an 11inch think axis. It needed four elephants to swivel it around on its axis. Its main characteristic is that it can be turned in all directions for firing with the help of tow back wheels and rolling pin fixed near them.
It’s so heavy that its construction was done entirely at the same place. And it’s never brought down. Since there were no wars fought in that area, it was never used, except once for test firing. At the village of Chaksu, nearly 30 miles south of here, you are shown a spring of water which is said to have gushed out of the earth on the impact of one of Jaivana’s mighty cannonballs!
Jaigarh fort also has a museum of weapons, as Jaipur was a weapon producing centre of ancient times.
i took this shot right outside Swai Man Singh (SMS) cricket stadium entry/exit gate.. on Champions Trophy 2nd semifinal this month.
I have seen it... its called Jaiwan... and it is in JayGarh fort in "Jaipur"
it is located on the highest point of the fort .. its amazing how they got it up there....
