A grove near Rájagaha where Anáthapindika first met the Buddha. In the grove was a cemetery described as bhayabherava (ThagA.i.47; cf. Dvy.264, 268), and, when Anáthapindika approached it, he was filled with fear and trembling. But he was reassured by a friendly Yakkha, Sívaka (Vin.ii.155f.; when the Buddha was staying there, Mára asked him to die; D.ii.116).
In the Sítavana was the Sappasondikapabbhára (S.i.210f; Vin.ii.76; iv.159), where Upasena was killed by a snake bite (S.iv.40) and Sona Kolivisa tried, without success, to practise asceticism. (A.iii.374).
Sambhúta Thera so loved the Sítavana that he came to be called "Sitavaniya."
In Asoka's day his brother Tissakumára, (Ekaviháriya) is also mentioned its delighting in the solitude of Sítavana (Thag.vs.540; or does this Sítavana not refer to any particular place?).
There were five hundred "walks" (cankamanáni) in Sítavana. AA.ii.679.