Birth time rectification meaning in Vedic astrology

P.V.R. Narasimha Rao (PVR) lists common reasons for birth time errors: an unadjusted clock, a time noted later from memory, a correctly noted time misremembered, and a different definition of 'birth'.

For PVR, the only reliable method is to test times near the reported one and keep the time with which the person's nature and known life events make sense.

B.V. Raman writes that birth times 'can be rectified only by men of experience by a consideration of pronounced life events'.

Related terms

• Lagna →Lagna is the Vedic ascendant: the sign rising on the eastern horizon at the moment and place of birth.
• Varga →Varga refers to divisional charts (varga chakras), which divide each sign into n parts and map each part to a sign again.
• Birth chart →Birth chart: a map of where the signs, planets and lagna sat at the moment you were born, drawn across 12 areas, one per sign.

Lessons that use this term

• Why birth time matters in astrology (and what if you don't know it) →

Sources for this entry

1. B.V. Raman, Hindu Predictive Astrology
2. P.V.R. Narasimha Rao, Vedic Astrology: An Integrated Approach