Narendra Rajya Lakshmi Devi (?–11 January 1775) was queen consort to
Prithvi Narayan Shah
Prithvi Narayan Shah (; 7 January 1723 – 11 January 1775), was the last king of the Gorkha Kingdom and first king of the Kingdom of Nepal (also called the ''Kingdom of Gorkha''). Prithvi Narayan Shah started the unification of Nepal. He is a ...
, king of the
Kingdom of Nepal
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. She was the mother of future King
Pratap Singh Shah
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and Princes Vedum Shah and
Bahadur Shah. She was the daughter of Abhiman Singh, a
Rajput
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chief from
Varanasi
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She committed
sati
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on the same day that her husband Prithvi Narayan's final rites were conducted.
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Queens consort of Nepal
1775 deaths
People of the Nepalese unification
Nepalese Hindus
18th-century Nepalese nobility
Mothers of Nepalese monarchs
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