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* [[Rajendra Rajya Lakshmi Devi]], wife of King [[Pratap Singh Shah]] |
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* [[Rajendra Bikram Shah]], king of Nepal |
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Latest revision as of 16:59, 6 September 2024
Rajendra is popular Hindu given name. It is derived from the Sanskrit rājendra 'lord of kings', 'supreme sovereign',[1] which is a compound of the words rāja 'king' and indra 'supreme'.[2]
Notable people with the name include:
- Rajendra Chola I, Rajendra Chola II and Rajendra Chola III, Chola emperors in the 11th and 13th centuries
- Rajendra Kharel (active from 1999), Nepalese politician
- Rajendra Krishan, Bollywood lyricist and writer
- Rajendra Kumar (1927–1999), Bollywood actor
- Rajendra Kumar KC (active from 2013), Nepalese politician
- Rajendra Mahato (born 1958), Nepali politician
- Rajendra Patel, Gujarati language poet, short story writer and critic
- Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India
- Rajendra Prasad (actor), Telugu language actor
- Rajendra Rajya Lakshmi Devi, wife of King Pratap Singh Shah
- Rajendra Bikram Shah, king of Nepal
- Rajendra Singh (born 1959), Indian water conservationist and environmentalist
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[edit]Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.
- ^ Indra is also the name of a Vedic deity.