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Jayapa or Jaya was a military commander (senani or senapati) under the Kakatiya king Ganapati-deva (r. c. 1199-1262 CE), whose core territory included the Telugu-speaking region in present-day Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Jayapa was a member of the Ayya family of the Divi island in the Krishna River delta. After Ganapati invaded the island, his family accepted the Kakatiya suzerainty, and Jayapa entered the Kakatiya service as a military commander. Ganapati later appointed him as the governor of newly-conquered territories, including Vela-nadu. Jayapa wrote Nṛutta Ratnavali, a Sanskrit-language treatise on dancing and choreography.