Editing Prithvi Narayan Shah (section)

{{short description|King of Gorkha and Nepal}}
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| title        = '''Shree Panch''' <br> '''Maharajadhiraja''' <br> '''Sarkar'''
| image        = Prithvi Narayan Shah (oldest picture).jpg
| caption      = Prithvi Narayan Shah {{C.}} 18th Century
| succession   = [[Gorkha Kingdom|King of Gorkha]]
| succession1  = [[King of Nepal]]
| predecessor  = [[Nara Bhupal Shah]]
| successor    = ''Position abolished''
| predecessor1 = ''Position established''
| successor1   = [[Pratap Singh Shah]]
| regnal name  = Shree Paanch Bada Maharajadhiraj Prithvi Narayan Shah Dev
| house        = [[Shah dynasty|Shah]]
| house-type   = Dynasty
| father       = Nara Bhupal Shah
| mother       = Kaushalyavati Shah
| issue        = [[Pratap Singh Shah]]<br/>Vedum Shah<br />[[Bahadur Shah of Nepal|Bahadur Shah]]<br/> [[Bilas Kumari]] <br/> Narayan Shah<br/>Vishnu Shah
| religion     = [[Hinduism]]<ref name=":3" />
| birth_date   = {{birth date|df=yes|1723|01|11}}
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1775|1|11|1723|1|11}}
| reign        = 3 April 1743 – 25 September 1768<ref name="Bowman2000">{{Cite book |last=Bowman |first=John S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYoHOqC7Yx4C&pg=PA396 |title=Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture |date=5 September 2000 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-50004-3 |location= |pages=396 |language=en|access-date=26 November 2020|archive-date=26 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126153551/https://books.google.com/books?id=cYoHOqC7Yx4C&pg=PA396|url-status=live}}</ref>
| reign1       = 25 September 1768<ref>{{cite web|last=Subba|first=Sanghamitra|date=20 December 2019|title=A future written in the stars|url=https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/a-future-written-in-the-stars/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131123714/https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/a-future-written-in-the-stars/|archive-date=31 January 2021|access-date=31 January 2021|website=Nepali Times|language=en-US}}</ref> – 11 January 1775
| cor-type1    = [[Coronation of the Nepalese monarch|Coronation]]
| coronation1  = 25 September 1768
| spouses      = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|[[Indra Kumari Devi]]|1738}}
* {{marriage|[[Queen Narendra of Nepal|Narendra Rajya Lakshmi Devi]]|1740}}
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| cor-type     = [[Coronation of the Nepalese monarch|Coronation]]
| coronation   = 3 April 1743<ref name="Bowman2000" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Pradhan |first=Kumar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2kxuAAAAMAAJ |title=The Gorkha Conquests: The Process and Consequences of the Unification of Nepal, with Particular Reference to Eastern Nepal |date=1991 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0195627237 |location= |pages=124 |language=en}}</ref>
| birth_place  = [[Gorkha Palace]], [[Gorkha Kingdom]] <br/> (present-day [[Gorkha District]], [[Nepal]])
| death_place  = [[Devighat]], [[Kingdom of Nepal]]<br/> (present-day [[Nuwakot District]], [[Nepal]])
}}

'''Prithvi Narayan Shah'''<ref>{{Cite web|title=Prithvi Nārāyaṇ Shah {{!}} Gurkha king of Nepal|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Prithvi-Narayan-Shah|access-date=22 August 2020|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> ({{langx|ne|श्री ५ बडामहाराजाधिराज पृथ्वीनारायण शाह देव|translit=Shri Panch Badamaharajadhiraj Prithvi Narayan Shah Dev}}; 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 also credited for moving the royal seat of power to Kathmandu.<ref>Kathmandu</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Triratna|last=Manandhar|title=Nepal ko Ekikaran|page=215|publisher=Sajha Prakashan|location=Kathmandu|language=ne}}</ref>