Bridge-teacher: son and pupil of Utpaladeva, initiator of Abhinavagupta into Pratyabhijna and Krama (Abhinava's Krama experiments, incl. the 990 Kramastotra, run on this instruction). No independent works catalogued — his transmission lives in his pupil's corpus.
Lineage diagram (CC BY-SA 3.0): Lakshmanagupta transmits Somananda’s line to Abhinavagupta. Diagram, not portrait. Credit: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Bio. Son and pupil of Utpaladeva; initiator of Abhinavagupta into Pratyabhijna and Krama (Jayaratha, TA comm.). No independent works catalogued — his transmission lives in his pupil's corpus.
Lineage
son and pupil of Utpaladeva
teacher of (Krama + Trika/Pratyabhijna) Abhinavagupta
co-student line with Bhūtiraja, Helaraja
dates son and pupil of Utpaladeva (Deshpande/Pandey); initiated Abhinavagupta in Pratyabhijna and Krama (Jayaratha, TĀ comm.) · canon: · machine-readable JSON · bio schema