Vishala

{{Short description|Ramayana character}}

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Vishala ({{langx|sa|विशाल|translit=Viśāla}}) is a king in Hinduism, featured in the Ramayana.{{Cite book |last=Krishnan |first=R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJIUEAAAQBAJ&dq=vishala+ikshvaku&pg=PT49 |title=Valmiki Ramayana |date=2021-01-16 |publisher=Giri Trading Agency Private Limited |isbn=978-81-7950-730-8 |language=en}} He is the son of Ikshvaku and his queen, Alambusha. He is said to have built a city called Viśālā, near which Ahalya was transformed into stone. He had a son named Hemachandra.{{Cite web |last=www.wisdomlib.org |date=2009-04-12 |title=Vishala, Viśālā, Visāla, Visala, Viśāla, Visālā, Viṣala: 41 definitions |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/vishala |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=www.wisdomlib.org |language=en}}

The name of Vishala is also mentioned in one of the Puranas{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZQbAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22King+Visala%22&pg=PA169 |title=Dippings in the Puranas | journal =Calcutta Review | volume =40 | pages =169–170 |date =1864 |access-date=2016-02-13 }} as well as the Mahabharata.{{cite book |author=Promatha Nath Mullick |title=The Mahabharata as a History and a Drama |year=1939 |publisher=Thacker, Spink |location=Calcutta |pages=130 | url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.514537 |oclc=12074301 }}