Somananda

Somananda

Somananda (875–925 A.D.) [The Krama Tantricism of Kashmir, Navijan Rastogi, page 104] was one of the teachers of Kashmir Shaivism, in the lineage of "Trayambaka", author of the first philosophic treatise of this school, "Śivadṛṣṭi".History of Kashmir Shaivism, B N Pandit, page 27] 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 where most of the later philosophers of the school lived, as a householder.

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