Sītavana untranslated

Sītavana. A grove near Rājagaha where Anāthapiṇḍika first met Gotama Buddha. In the grove was a cemetery described as bhayabherava (Thag­a.i.47; cf. Divy.264, 268), and, when Anāthapiṇḍika approached it, he was filled with fear and trembling. But he was reassured by a friendly Yakkha, Sīvaka (Vin.ii.155f.; when the Buddha was staying there, Māra asked him to die; DN.ii.116).

In the Sītavana was the Sappasoṇḍikapabbhāra (SN.i.210f; Vin.ii.76; iv.159), where Upasena was killed by a snake bite (SN.iv.40) and Soṇa Koḷivisa tried, without success, to practise asceticism (AN.iii.374). Sambhūta Thera so loved the Sītavana that he came to be called “Sītavaniya.” There were five hundred “walks” (caṅkamanāni) in Sītavana. AN­a.ii.679.

In Asoka’s day his brother Tissakumāra (Ekavihāriya), is also mentioned as delighting in the solitude of Sītavana (Thag.vs.540; or does this Sītavana not refer to any particular place?).