south indian astrology time conversion?

Question

I want to get my time of birth, and the only record I have is my horoscope written in native language, and the time in it is in some weird scale. can anyone please convert the time to western time ?

the time in it is 7 "naazhika" 55 "vinaazhika", at night.
Also, any info on how it can be converted would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

There are 60 naazhika in a day. Thus, each naazhika is 24 minutes long, so 7 naazhika is 7*24 = 168 minutes, or 2 hours and 48 minutes. Each naazhika is in turn divided into 60 vinaazhika, making each one 24 seconds long. Thus, 55 vinaazhika is 55*24 = 1320 seconds, or 22 minutes. So 7 naazhika and 55 vinaazhika is 2 hr + 48 min + 22 min = 3 hours and 10 minutes.

Unfortunately, I'm not exactly sure when this time is counted from. If you know that you were born at night, it probably means that you were born 3 hours and 10 minutes after sunset, but then you'd need to find out what time the sun set that day in the location where you were born. My third reference lets you look up this information, but you will need to obtain the latitude and longitude for your place of birth.

Regardless of the fact that this particular time happened to have been obtained from a horoscope, the ancient Namboothiri calendar is a valid timekeeping system.