Somananda

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Somananda (875–925 A.D.)[1] was one of the teachers of Kashmir Shaivism, in the lineage of Trayambaka, author of the first philosophic treatise of this school, Śivadṛṣṭi.[2] A contemporary of Bhaṭṭa Kallaṭa, the two formed the first wave of Kashmiri Shaivites to propose in a rigurous and logical way the concepts of nondual Saivism.

Somananda lived in Kashmir, most probably in Srinagar[2] where most of the later philosophers of the school lived, as a householder.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ The Krama Tantricism of Kashmir, Navijan Rastogi, page 104
  2. ^ a b History of Kashmir Shaivism, B N Pandit, page 27