Rajamala Devi

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Rajamala Devi
Empress consort of the Pala Empire
ReignEarly 9th century-1043
PredecessorMahata Devi
Dowager empress
Reign1043-1057
SpouseShurapala II
DynastyChahamanas of Shakambhari
FatherDurlabharaja I
ReligionShaivism

Rajamala Devi or Rajadevi was the empress consort of Shurapala II, but she did not have a child with him. She was the younger daughter of Durlabharaja I of the Chahamana dynasty and the sister of Mahata Devi.


She was very curious about Ramapala when he killed her husband but queen Rajamala with the tear in her eye started her reign in 1043 and died in 1057. She never forgived her brother in law but she gifted two temples to the Brahmins and did the acts of her sister, Queen Mahata. Mahata, as a big sister was succeeded by her younger sister, Rajamala. Durlabharaja married her to a prince named Shurapala, but she died but her cause of death is unknown. She had love and affection on her elder sister, Mahata. She had many stone inscriptions which state that Rajamala Devi and Shurapala II were childless couples. She was unhappy to not have a child but came in working and outlived her husband.

See also[edit]

List of rulers of Bengal