Kosala was one of the 16 Mahajanapadas in the 6th to 5th centuries BCE, approximately within the present-day Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh, India.
Kosala may also refer to: Kosala kingdom, a kingdom in ancient India Kosala (moth), a genus of moth Kosala (novel), a 1963 Marathi-language novel by Indian writer Bhalchandra Nemade
People with the given name Kosala Devi, first wife of Magadha Emperor Bimbisara (558–491 BCE) Kosala Kulasekara (born 1985), Sri Lankan cricketer Kosala Kuruppuarachchi (born 1964), Sri Lankan cricketer Kosala Ramadas (died 2013), politician in Kerala, India
See also Dakshina Kosala kingdom or South Kosala, in present Chhattisgarh state and western Odisha state Kosal (disambiguation) Kosali (disambiguation)