( Summary of Contents - Verse 13-16

The highly intelligent Suta1 who was the most excellent among the reciters of Purdnas came there to see the sages . He became well-known to the world as Lomaharsana2 (the Thriller who made hair stand on their ends) as he thrilled the members of his audience with delight by his excellent (absorbing) narration. He was the most intelligent disciple of the sage Vedavyasa, the store-house of penance, Vedic learning and good conduct. The association of the sages of Naimisarariya and their performance of a Sattra is as old as Vedic times. According to Kane (ibid) il Naimisya vai sattram dsata” occurs in Kathaka Samhita X. 6 (I could not trace it) . But if the references given by him to the Samhita and Brahman as be correct and if the direction of the spread of Aryandom from the West to the East be presumed, the Vedic references might be to the Naimisaranya in the Kuruksetra area.