Vaishali as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Vaishali

What is the meaning of the name Vaishali ?

The baby name Vaishali is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced VYE-shaa-lee.

Vaishali is Hindi, Pali, Sanskrit in Origin.

Vaishali represents Sanskrit Vaiśālī, written वैशाली, a feminine toponymic formation connected with viśāla, broad, spacious, or extensive. The base adjective takes the vṛddhi-grade initial vowel vai- and the feminine ending -ī, yielding a place-name and later a personal name with the literal sense of spacious or belonging to Viśāla. An early attested Middle Indo-Aryan form is Pali Vesālī, familiar from Buddhist canonical literature.

The historical Vaiśālī lay in present-day Bihar and was associated with the Licchavis and the Vajji confederacy, often cited in accounts of early republican polity in northern India. It is important in Buddhist tradition as a city visited by the Buddha, and in Jain tradition as the birthplace region of Mahavira. As a given name, Vaishali is chiefly modern Indian, especially in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, and other Indo-Aryan naming contexts, with spellings such as Vaishalee and scholarly Vaiśālī.