Vaishali
Vaishali is an ancient city and a Buddhist pilgrimage site in the Mithila region of Bihar, India. It is where Buddha gave his last sermon before leaving to Kushinagar where he achieved Mahaparinirvana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Buddhist pilgrimage and archaeological site (Ashoka pillar, Stupa and Swastika Monastery) associated with significant events in Lord Buddha’s life; in Bihar in India
- Also known as: “Land of Ambapali (Amrapali)”, “Vaishali (Vesali) Ashoka Pillar”, and “Vesali (in Pali)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paval Pagoda (Buddha’s Relics stupa in Vaishali).
Paval Pagoda (Buddha’s Relics stupa in Vaishali)
Buddhist temple
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Paval Pagoda (Buddha’s Relics stupa in Vaishali) is a Buddhist temple.
Vaishali
- Categories: Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Saraiya, Muzaffarpur district, Mithila, Bihar, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.9864° or 25° 59′ 11″ northLongitude
85.1269° or 85° 7′ 37″ eastElevation
41 metres (135 feet)Open location code
7MQ7X4PG+HQOpenStreetMap ID
way 260632188OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Vaishali” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويشالي”
- Armenian: “Վայշալի”
- Assamese: “বৈশালী”
- Basque: “Vaishali (antzinako hiria)”
- Basque: “Vaishali”
- Bengali: “বৈশালী”
- Bhojpuri: “वैशाली”
- Burmese: “ဝေသာလီပြည်”
- Catalan: “Vaisali”
- Catalan: “Vaixali”
- Chinese: “毗舍離”
- Czech: “Vaišálí”
- Dutch: “Vaishali”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويشالى”
- Esperanto: “Vaishali”
- Esperanto: “Vajŝalio”
- French: “Vaisali”
- German: “Vaishali”
- Goan Konkani: “Vaishali ek Adlem Xhar”
- Goan Konkani: “वैशाली”
- Hebrew: “וסאלי”
- Hindi: “वेसली (प्राचीन नगर)”
- Hindi: “वैशाली”
- Hungarian: “Vaisáli”
- Indonesian: “Vaishali”
- Italian: “Vaiśālī”
- Japanese: “吠舎離”
- Japanese: “毘舎離”
- Kannada: “ವೈಶಾಲಿ”
- Korean: “바이샬리”
- Literary Chinese: “毗舍離”
- Magahi: “बैसाली”
- Magahi: “लिच्छवि”
- Magahi: “वेसली”
- Magahi: “वैशाली”
- Magahi: “वैशु”
- Maithili: “वैशाली”
- Malayalam: “വൈശാലി”
- Marathi: “वैशाली”
- Nepali: “वैशाली”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vaishali”
- Oriya: “ବୈଶାଳୀ”
- Panjabi: “ਵੈਸ਼ਾਲੀ”
- Portuguese: “Vaishali”
- Portuguese: “Vaixali”
- Russian: “Вайшали”
- Sanskrit: “Vaiśālī”
- Sanskrit: “वैशाली”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vaishali”
- Sinhala: “වෛශාලී”
- Slovenian: “Vajšali”
- Spanish: “Vaishali (ciudad antigua)”
- Spanish: “Vaishali”
- Swedish: “Vaishali”
- Tamil: “வைசாலி, பண்டைய நகரம்”
- Tamil: “வைசாலி”
- Thai: “เวสาลี”
- Ukrainian: “Вайшалі”
- Urdu: “ویشالی”
- Vietnamese: “Tỳ-xá-ly”
- Vietnamese: “Vaishali”
- Western Panjabi: “ویشالی”
- “वैशाली”
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