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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 The Kingdom of Nepal was a Hindu monarchy in South Asia, founded in 1768 through the unification of Nepal, expansion of the Gorkha Kingdom. The kingdom was also known as the Gorkha Empire and was sometimes called History of Asal Hindustan, ...
. She was the mother of future King
Pratap Singh Shah Pratap Singh Shah, King of Nepal (), (16 April 1751– 17 November 1777), was King of Nepal. He was the eldest son of Prithvi Narayan Shah, the king who started the unification of Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic ...
and Princes Vedum Shah and Bahadur Shah. She was the daughter of Abhiman Singh, a
Rajput Rājpūt (, from Sanskrit ''rājaputra'' meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur (), is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating fro ...
chief from
Varanasi Varanasi (, also Benares, Banaras ) or Kashi, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.* * * * The city has a syncretic tradition of I ...
. She committed
sati Sati or SATI may refer to: Entertainment * ''Sati'' (film), a 1989 Bengali film by Aparna Sen and starring Shabana Azmi * ''Sati'' (novel), a 1990 novel by Christopher Pike *Sati (singer) (born 1976), Lithuanian singer *Sati, a character in ''Th ...
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 {{Nepal-royal-stub