 The sages performed penance and at the end of it, Vishnu appeared to the sages and accepted their offerings.It is believed that the forest still has Vishnu and all sages as trees.Naimisaranyam is located at the junction of the roads from Sitapur and Khairabad, 32 km from Sitapur and 42 km from the Sandila railway station, 45 miles north of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.