Shashikala
Shashikala means Phase of the moon, moonbeam.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | S |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Phase of the moon, moonbeam”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Indukala — Phase of the moon, moonbeam
- Rashmi — Ray of light, a moonbeam
- Chandni — Moonlight, moonbeam
- Rashmitha — Ray of light, moonbeam
- Chandralekha — Crescent moonbeam
- Chandrakala — Digit of the moon, beautiful as moonbeam
More girls' names of Kannada origin
Where this comes from
Shashikala has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.