title: Abhaya
text: # Abhaya
  
  Abhaya may refer to:
  
  ## People with the name
  
  ### Historical
  
  * Abhaya of Upatissa Nuwara, king of Upathissa Nuwara from 474 to 454 BCE
  * Abhaya Malla (died 1255), Malla Dynasty king of Nepal
  * Abhaya Naga of Anuradhapura (reigned 237–245 CE)
  * Amandagamani Abhaya of Anuradhapura (reigned 21–30 CE)
  * Bhatikabhaya Abhaya of Anuradhapura (reigned 20 BCE – 9 CE)
  * Dutugamunu (reigned 161–137 BCE), Sri Lankan king also known as Dutthagamani Abhaya
  * Valagamba of Anuradhapura (reigned after 103 BCE), also known as Vattagamani Abhaya
  
  ### Modern
  
  * Sister Abhaya, the victim in the 1992 Sister Abhaya murder case of Kottayam, Kerala
  * Abhaya Indrayan (born 1945), Indian biostatistician
  * Abhaya Induruwa (born 1950), Sri Lankan computer scientist
  * Abhaya Simha (born 1981), Kannada film director
  * Abhaya Subba, Nepalese singer-songwriter and musician
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Abhaya (film), a 2017 Indian film
  * Abhayamudra, a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism
  * Abhaya: The Legend of Diwali, a book on a princess of the fictional city of Anagha
  