Once upon a time sages led by Sounaka visited Brahmaloka to have the darshan of Brahma. Brahma who is the Vedaswarupi and Saraswathi bartha was approached by them all. They immediately requested Brahma that they were to perform a satrayaga for the sake of world peace. They wanted Him to inform an apt place for the same. Brahma contemplated and said atonce “ they are several sanctified places in bhuloka. Those places where vaidikas reside the Devas reside too. The very body of Brahmins knowing Vedas is a temple for the Devas. Hence it is important to worship Veda- knowing Brahmins who are Gods themselves. Now I shall create a wheel and rotate it myself. Wherever it stops you shall conduct the yaga there. That place will be a punya kshetra and teertha. He thus rotated his wheel and that wheel crossed all the lokas and fell at the banks of river Gomathi. Nemi means “ chakra- wheel” As the chakra fell it was named “ naimisham”. That forest ( aranya) thus came to be called “ naimisharanyam. At the place where the chakram fell a chakra teertha was formed. At this place if tharpanam ( ancestral offerings) are made then the ancestors get immense satisfaction. It was then that the sages conducted a deergasatra under the banyan tree. It is said that Sage Vyasa did penance along with his sishyas under this treein Dwaparayuga. Suthar did pravachanam of the eighteen puranas here. Here Swayambhuva manu meditated upon the Lord along with Shatharupa. The asuras came there and thought of eating up manu. Yagneswara Vishnu then seeverd the heads of the asuras with his chakra. It was there that a temple was built for yagnanarayanamurthi. It is said that Lord Rama did Ashwamedha sacrifice here. It was here that Lord Rama listened to Ramayana sung by lava and Kusa. Sita Devi proved her chastity here and enetered the bhumi. The teertha there was hence called SitaKundam.
Sage Dadichi also did penance here and gave his backbone to the Devas for the making of vajrayudham. Hence there is a dadichikundam here. Thus many important incidents took place here. In the Gita the Lord says “ among forests Iam Naimisharanyam”.
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