Badamaharajdhiraj Prithvi Narayan Shah King of Nepal (1723–1775; Nepali: पृथ्वीनारायण शाह) was the first king of the unified Nepal. He is credited for starting the campaign for a unified Nepal which had been divided and weakened under Malla confederacy. He was the ninth generation descendant of Dravya Shah (1559–1570) the founder of the ruling house of Gorkha. Prithvi Narayan Shah succeeded his father King Nara Bhupal Shah to the throne of the Gorkha Kingdom in 1743.
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