Alaka

Alaka is named in the poem’s explanatory notes as the residence of Kuvera. Its only specific connection in the supplied text is uncertain: a footnote says that a lake may be attached either to Alaka or to Amaravati, the residence of Indra.

Identification

The note presents Alaka through its association with Kuvera, rather than through a description of its landscape, inhabitants, or buildings. It therefore establishes the place’s mythic identity but offers no further account of its character or extent.

Association with the lake

The surrounding note allows that the lake under discussion belongs either to Alaka or to Amaravati. Because it names both possibilities without deciding between them, the poem’s available evidence does not securely locate the lake in Alaka.

Narrative significance

Alaka functions here as a point of cosmological geography: naming it situates the lake among the residences of divine figures. Beyond that association, the passage does not describe events occurring in Alaka or establish a route to it.