This ancient temple has been mentioned several times in Mahabharat.

This ancient temple is mentioned in the Tamil work Silapathikaram as Neduvelkunru.

In one such inscription the temple is mentioned as Rajendra Cholisvaram.

The temple is also mentioned in the Sanskrit work Srirangaraja Sarithapanam.

There are few auspicious temples in Bamnera are as mentioned below:

The temple has been mentioned only infrequently in various chronicles of Delhi.

This temple has been mentioned in the Sangam period work Tirumurugaatruppadai composed by Nakkeerar.

Both the temple and the city are mentioned in the first book of Homer's Iliad and suggestions regarding their exact location have been made.

However, some tourists came that way, since the temple was mentioned in Baedeker.

In contemporary sources the temple was mentioned only once by Peter von Dusburg in 1326.