Jaya may refer to:

Media

*''Jaya'', self titled albums by

Jaya (singer) Maria Luisa Ramsey Kagahastian (born March 21, 1970), known professionally as Jaya (), is a Filipino singer, actress, and television personality. Referred to as the country's "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Soul", she is known fo ...

, released in 1989, 1996 and 2001 * ''Jaya'' (film), a 2002 Indian Tamil film

Hindu mythology

*''Jaya'', a Sanskrit term meaning victorious *'' Jaya Samhita'', an earlier name of the epic ''

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; , , ) is one of the two major Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epics of ancient India revered as Smriti texts in Hinduism, the other being the ''Ramayana, Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the events and aftermath of the Kuru ...

'', considered to form its core portion *Jaya, a name of Karna in the ''Mahabharata'' *

Jaya-Vijaya In Hinduism, Jaya and Vijaya are the two ''Dvarapala, dvarapalakas'' (gatekeepers) of Vaikuntha, the abode of the god Vishnu. Due to a curse by the four Kumaras, they were forced to undergo multiple births as mortals who would be subsequently ki ...

, the door-keepers of Vaikuntha, the realm of the god Vishnu in Hindu mythology *Jaya, consort of

Kalki Kalki (), also called Kalkin, is the prophesied tenth and final incarnation of the Hinduism, Hindu god Vishnu. According to Vaishnavism, Vaishnava cosmology, Kalki is destined to appear at the end of the Kali Yuga, the last of the four ages i ...

People

* Jaya (given name), list of people with this name, or names derived from it *

(born 1970), Filipina soul singer

Places

Fictional places

*Jaya, an island in Oda Eiichiro's manga and anime series '' One Piece''

Indonesia

* Aceh Jaya Regency, Aceh * Bintaro Jaya, a real-estate in the outskirts of Jakarta *

Jakarta Jakarta (; , Betawi language, Betawi: ''Jakartè''), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (; ''DKI Jakarta'') and formerly known as Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia and ...

, comes from the name: ''Jayakarta'' which means "victorious city". * Jayapura, a capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of Papua * Jayawijaya Regency, Highland Papua * Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh * Puncak Jaya, the country's highest mountain *

Puncak Jaya Regency Puncak Jaya Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in the Indonesian province of Central Papua. It is an inland highland regency,McGibbon, RoddPlural Society in Peril: Migration, Economic Change, and the Papua Conflict '' East–West Ce ...

, Central Papua

Malaysia

Petaling Jaya Petaling Jaya (), colloquially referred to as "PJ", is a city in Petaling District, in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. Originally developed as a Satellite city, satellite township for Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, it is part of the G ...

Putrajaya Putrajaya (), officially the Federal Territory of Putrajaya (), is the administrative centre of Malaysia. The Seat of government, seat of the Government of Malaysia, federal government of Malaysia was moved in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajay ...

* Seberang Jaya *

Subang Jaya Subang Jaya is a city in Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. It comprises the southern third district of Petaling. It consists of the neighbourhoods from SS12 to SS19, UEP Subang Jaya (USJ), Putra Heights, Batu Tiga as well as PJS7, PJ ...

Science

*'' Aspidoparia jaya'', a fish native to India and Bangladesh * Jaya (insect), a genus of antlions