Tribhuvana Mahadevi III

{{Short description|9th century queen regnant of Toshala}}

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Tribhuvana Mahadevi III (died 905), was the queen regnant of the Indian Bhauma-Kara dynasty's Kingdom of ToshalaA History of Orissa. N. K. Sahu · 1956 in 896-905 AD.

{{cite book|title=Know Your State Odisha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBrzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|page=16|isbn=978-9313193272|author=Arihant Experts| date=4 June 2019 |quote=Next female rulers were Tribhuvana Mahadevi II (890-896AD) and Tribhuvana Mahadevi III (896-905AD).}}

She was married to Sivakara III. Her spouse succeeded his brother Subhakaradeva IV in 882. When he died in 890, he was succeeded by his brothers widow Tribhuvana Mahadevi II, who was supported by her father, a foreign king.Archana Garodia Gupta, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4XuLDwAAQBAJ&dq=Tribhuvana+Mahadevi+II&pg=PT18 The Women Who Ruled India: Leaders. Warriors. Icons.]

{{Infobox royalty

| name = Tribhuvana Mahadevi III

| title = Paramavaishnavi

| reign = c.896 - 905 AD

| predecessor = Tribhuvana Mahadevi II

| successor = Shantikaradeva III

| spouse = Sivakaradeva III

| house = Bhauma-Kara dynasty

| religion = Hinduism

}}

In 896, the officials of the court assisted her in a coup to depose her sister-in-law and assume the throne.Archana Garodia Gupta, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4XuLDwAAQBAJ&dq=Tribhuvana+Mahadevi+II&pg=PT18 The Women Who Ruled India: Leaders. Warriors. Icons.] She took titles such as ‘Parama-bhattarika’, ‘Maharajadhiraja’ and ‘Paramesvari’.{{Cite book |last=Sahu |first=N. K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ajduAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Tribhubana-mahadevi+III%22+%22maharajadhiraja%22 |title=History of Orissa |date=1981 |publisher=Nalanda |pages=125|language=en|quote=Tribhubana-mahadevi III, like her predecessor Prthvimahadevi, assumed imperial titles of Parama-bhattarika, Maharajadhiraja Paramesvari.}} She was praised for magnanimity, courtesies, grace, beauty and bravery. She was a devout Vaisnava.

According to the Dhenkanal Charter she granted the village Kontaspara to the astrologer Bhatta Jagadhar for the purpose of bringing down rain and averting death.

She was succeeded by her late spouse's sons Shantikaradeva III and Subhakaradeva V.