Lakhimadevi
| Lakhimadevi | |||||||||
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| Maharani of Mithila | |||||||||
| Reign | 1416 CE - 1428 CE | ||||||||
| Predecessor | Shivasimha | ||||||||
| Successor | Padmasimha (Brother of Shivasimha) | ||||||||
| Born | Lakhima Mithila | ||||||||
| Died | Banauli Vidyapati Dih, Raj Banauli | ||||||||
| Husband | Shivasimha | ||||||||
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| Kingdom | Tirhut Sarkar | ||||||||
| Kingdom | Mithila Kingdom | ||||||||
| Dynasty | Oiniwar Dynasty | ||||||||
| Religion | Hinduism | ||||||||
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Lakhimadevi (Maithili: लखीमादेवी) was the queen of the Mithila Kingdom in Oiniwar Dynasty during the period of the King Shivasimha in the kingdom. She was contemporary of the prominent Maithili poet Vidyapati. She was the wife of the King Shivasimha in Mithila. After the missing and death of the King Shivasimha, the queen took control of the Mithila Kingdom. The Mithila Kingdom was also known as Tirhut Kingdom those days. She was the eighth ruler in the Oiniwar Dynasty of the kingdom.
The history of the queen Lakhimadevi is elaborated in the text Purushapariksha composed by the Maithil scholar Vidyapati. She is much praised by the Maithil scholar Vidyapati in his compositions. He has written about the queen Lakhimadevi as a praise in his text quoted
"My poetry flows at the contemplation of the feet of Lakhima Devi"
— Maithili Poet Vidyapati
She is also known as Lakshmi Devi. The poet Vidyapati in his poems had emotionally described the queen as the form of Goddess Lakshmi. In some historical texts, her name is also mentioned as Lakhima Thakurani or Rani Lakhima Thakurain.