> How is time of birth measured? When labor begins? When the head of the > baby peeps into the world? When the feet of the baby leaves the > mother's body? When the umbilical chord is cut? Isn't the interval > between all these things in the order of a few minutes?
Shridhar Daithankar over on LI* is also an amateur astrologer, and his family are traditional astrologers over several generations. I asked him for an exact answer. However, what he told me when I discussed this with him sometime back more or less gets borne out by this very detailed blog post .. http://jyotishavedika.blogspot.com/2006/01/defining-time-of-birth.html
