P.V.R. Narasimha Rao

• Status: living (as of writing)
• Chart pointers (PVNR, his own chart): Virgo lagna; Atmakaraka Mars; Jupiter + Ketu form a Kathari around the lagna (Jupiter in the 2nd, Ketu in the 12th) — his own example of the marker of someone carrying a Jyotiṣa knowledge-lineage forward; ishta devata: Narasimha.

• Kind of work: dual career — professional software engineer by profession, and a prolific Vedic-astrology author, teacher and software-creator by vocation.
• Fame: widely known in the Vedic-astrology world as the author of Vedic Astrology — An Integrated Approach and the creator of Jagannatha Hora, one of the most widely used free Jyotiṣa programs.
• Position / power: senior engineering manager at a semiconductor firm in the greater Boston area; teacher of free weekly Jyotiṣa classes (the SJC classes mined for this library).
• Wealth: not part of the documented public record; treat as unknown.
• Legal / negative: none on the documented public record.
• Health: not part of the documented public record.

• 1970-04-04 — born in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
• (child prodigy) — earned "Sanskrita Bhasha Kovida" and "Sanskrita Bhasha Visharada" Sanskrit diplomas (BA-equivalent) at age 11, and a "Rashtrabhasha Praveena" Hindi diploma at age 12.
• 1987–1991 — B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, IIT Madras.
• 1991–1993 — master's degree, Rice University, Houston, USA.
• 1993 — began serious study of Vedic astrology, learning from his father, the astrologer Sri Pingali Venkata Subrahmanyachalapathi Rao; later a student in Sanjay Rath's SJC lineage.
• early 2000s — developed and released the free Jagannatha Hora (JHora) software.
• 2004–2007 — taught the SJC Jyotiṣa classes near Boston (the lesson corpus underlying this whole library).
• (ongoing) — author of a textbook and numerous articles (in the Astrological Magazine, Jyotish Digest, Express StarTeller, Modern Astrology, etc.); senior engineering manager at a Boston-area semiconductor firm.

Nature & personality

• An engineer's precision applied to śāstra: analytical, systematizing, and devotional. A Sanskrit scholar from boyhood. His teaching is steeped in a bhakti-centred approach to Jyotiṣa.

Profession, fame & status

• Twin tracks: a US-based software professional (IIT Madras + Rice) and a leading modern teacher/author of Vedic astrology. His enduring contributions are the JHora software (given away free) and his integrated-approach textbook and lessons.

Wealth & money

• Not documented; left unstated.

Marriage, relationships & children

• Not part of the well-documented public record; left unstated to avoid invention.

Health

• Not part of the documented public record.

Legal troubles / controversies

• None on the documented public record.

• His own chart is a recurring teaching piece. The Jupiter + Ketu Kathari around the Virgo lagna is his marker of someone carrying a knowledge/spiritual (Jyotiṣa) lineage; he keeps Mars as the original Atmakaraka (not the replaced Venus) and derives his ishta devata Narasimha via the 12th-from-AK-in-Navamsa rule. Specific dated personal events are scattered illustratively through the lessons rather than collected; this file stays to the documented public facts.

PVNR SJC lessons (recurring across the corpus). Life events from the public record.