Synopsis This book attempts to bring together papers presented by me at various conferences and workshops worldwide during my journeys from 2001-05. some papers in this volume have been updated and have been clubbed together in similar or related topics to form about two or three volumes. This is the first of the volumes. These papers looked into various aspects and tools of Vedic astrology and include some of my research as well as a lot of the teachings of the tradition of Orissa. They are unique in the sense that the matter contained in most of these papers has never ever been presented in any book or discussed in any magazine by any author on Vedic astrology.