Somananda

Somananda (875–925 CE)^[1] was one of the teachers of Kashmir Shaivism, in the lineage of Trayambaka, author of the first philosophical 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.

References

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

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Name	Somananda
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Date of birth	875
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Date of death	925
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