K. N. Rao’s first book Predicting Jaimini’s Chara Dasha is the most notable landmark in the application of Jaimini astrology. There never existed any book to show how Jaimini astrology could be made use of for predictions. In Jaipur where the book was subjected to severe testing, they declared I September 1995 that the book represented the greatest advance in Jaimini astrology in the last two thousand years. Rao was given a gold medal for the work.