Kotamraju Narayana Rao belongs to an illustrious Andhra Brahmin family. He is the second of the four sons of the famous journalist of the pre-independence era, Sri K. Rama Rao, the founder editor of the National Herald and editor of more than thirty journals in his long journalistic career. His elder brother K.Pratap Rao retired from the Indian Foreign service as an ambassador. His interactions with foreigners have been both on professional and astrological levels for more than two decades which is why he has, as an astrologer, a large international network of friends. He went on doing all his fundamental researches in astrology during his service career because of which, he went on collecting horoscopes systematically in thousands.
He has in his possession more than 50,000 horoscopes with ten important events of each individual noted with him. It is perhaps, the largest individual collection of horoscopes data any astrologer has. Among his many fundamental and most original researches are his two books “Predicting through Jaimini’s Chara Dasha” and “Predicting through Karakamsha and Mandook Dasha”. He has authored 27 books and is the guide and editor for another dozen books written by others. He is the chief editor of the prestigious “Journal of Astrology”.