How Place Became Blessed With Virtue

The Vamana Purana tells how King Kuru came to settle on this land. He chose this land at the banks of Sarasvati River(since dried up before 1900BCE) for embedding spirituality with 8 virtues: 

1. austerity (tapas), 
2. truth (satya), 
3. forgiveness (kshama), 
4. kindness (daya), 
5. purity (suchee^]), 
6. charity (daan),  
7. yagya and  
8. brahmacharya 

Lord Vishnu was impressed with the act of King Kuru and blessed him. God gave him two boons, 

1. one that this land forever will be known as a Holy Land after his name as Kurukshetra (the land of Kuru) and 
2. the other that anyone dying on this land will be going to heaven. .