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Synopsis Veerasimhaavalokaha, was to help humanity, by providing information on planetary combinations indicative of specific diseases and the causes, symptoms and cures for such diseases.  Such information is essential, to maintain bodily and mental health, enabling individuals to follow their dharma, the most important Purushaartha.  The original was written in Sanskrit.  The author of this book, (Volume II of which, will follow in due course) has come across translations in Hindi and Malayalam.  The intention of translating the Malayalam version, into English, is to make it available to a wider public, mainly students and practitioners of Ayurveda, who will find it a very valuable and useful book of reference.  Further, Ayurveda, widely followed in India, has started attracting great global interest, as an alternative system of medicine.  Those involved in research in this system of alternative medicine, will find this book, replete with information, of help in their research. Studessnts and practitioners of Hindu Astrology, will find in it, nuggets and data, linking this hoary science with diseases and their treatment.  Of special interest of this group, will be the portions of the text, prescribing the measures to be taken, for propitiating ill placed planets-specific mantras to be chanted, homas to be performed, austerities to be observed, like the Krishchra Chaandraayana Vritha and the gifts to be made and to whom.