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Kongu region was a sovereign state with 24 divisions.  Vayaraikal Nadu, Palladam, Sulur and Pollachi were parts of this land.  Sulur is 18 km far from Coimbatore on the Tiruchi Road.  Sural is a plant belonging to the grass family.  As this grass grew abundantly in this place, it was called Suralur.  It became Sulur in the days that followed.  Karikal Chola, found a swayambhu in this place during a deforestation project to create plain land.  He built a small temple, installed the Swayambu and conducted the consecration too.  According to the Chola Purva Pattayam released by the Government of Tamilnadu in the year 1950, Karikal Chola renovated 36 Shiva temple from Muttam in the Noyyal river area stretching up to Karur including the one in Sulur.

For funding the daily pujas without any breaks, king Veera Chozhan III liberally contributed by way of tax free schemes during the years 1168-1196 as epigraphic evidences show.  Therefore, the antiquity of the temple dates back to 850 years.  The Swayambu Moolavar Vaidyanatha Swami is naturally very ancient.  In the years that followed the temple was extended with additional shrines for all sub-deities and today it is big in size and fame. Lord Vinayaka under the Arasu tree with planets Rahu and Ketu is next to the Deepasthamba .  Lord Muruga with His consorts Valli and Deivanai, Lord Vaidyanatha Swami and Mother Thayyal Nayaki grace the devotees from the respective main shrines.

It is noteworthy that Lord Vinayaka graces the devotees from three places as Maha Ganapathy, Arasu tree Vinayaka and Vanni tree Vinayaka, with planets Ragu and Ketu.  The temple has shrines for Lords Aiyappan, Dakshinamurthy, Chandikeswara, Santana Bhairava and Mothers Durga, Mahalashmi and Saraswathi and Sun God, Moon and planet Saneeswara.

Lord Vaidyanatha Swami appeared in the dream of His devotee Ganapathi Ammal and asked her to get the two-horned coconut in her farm.  The woman was waiting for the sunrise.  Coconuts in the tree would fall naturally when ripe.  She wondered how it could still stick to the tree.  She called her servant to bring the coconut of the description given by Lord.  He also brought the coconut with two horns and offered it to the puja in the temple.