Sitoda

Sitoda · sita-uda, “white water”

Sitoda is a lake named in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa. Bhagavān Śrī Kṛshṇa teaches Yudhishṭhira the Dhānyaśaila gift, the gift of a mountain of grain, one of the ten kinds of mountain gift. Around the central Amaraśaila (glossed Sumerugiri), the Vishkambha mountains are set up in the four directions, each from a fourth part of it. In the west stands Tilācala, called the Vipula śaila: it is adorned with many fragrant flowers, a golden pippala tree and a golden haṃsa, wrapped in cloth and adorned with a forest of silver flowers, and before it the lake Sitoda is made of curd. In the east, Mandarācala has the lake Aruṇoda made of milk; in the south, Gandhamādana has a lake of ghee; and in the north, Supārśva has the lake Bhadrasara made of honey.

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 195