Rajendra Lakshmi was a daughter of King Mukunda Sen II of Palpa and she married to King Pratap Singh Shah.
After a death of Pratap Singh shah on Mangsir 6, 1834, Rajendra Lakshmi and Bahadur Shah (brother of Pratap Shah) jointly conducted the administration as reagents.
Seeing that Nepal’s administration was in a woman’s hand, there was a quarrel between Bahadur Shah and Rajendra Lakshmi and there was a lack of competent courtiers, Lamjung, Tanahun, Parvat, Palpa, etc. tried to attack Gorkha.
Warren Hastings(Governor-General of the East India ) sought Rajendra Lakshmi’s assistance against Chet which established a friendly relationship with India.
Rajendra Lakshmi suffered from tuberculosis and died on Shrawan 2, 1843 B.S.