Masters

800 — Bhattanarayana — Kashmiri poet-dramatist in the Trika orbit: the Venisamhara drama and the Stavacintamani stotra (121 verses) — the latter carrying Ksemaraja's commentary (KSTS X), which brings the court poet into the recognition fold.

820 — Vasugupta — Source-point of the Trika/Spanda line: the Sivasutras (terse aphorisms of recognition) and, on one transmitted account, the teacher whose doctrine Kallata versified as the Spandakarikas (authorship disputed — Vasugupta vs Kallata recensions differ, preserve both).

830 — Bhatta Kallata — Pupil of Vasugupta (Avantivarman reign): Spandavrtti on the Spandakarikas; Tattvartha works known from testimony.

875 — Somananda — Founder-voice of the Pratyabhijna line: the Sivadrsti argues the world is Siva appearing as multiplicity, countering dualist and Buddhist accounts. Teacher of Utpaladeva (who commented on him); his Saktavijnana survives as a short work.

900 — Utpaladeva (Utpalacarya) — Founder of Pratyabhijna: IPK + Vrtti + lost Vivrti, Siddhitrayi theologian, Sivastotravali poet.

920 — Bhutiraja (Bhuti) — Abhinavagupta's Brahmavidya teacher; the surviving Svabodhasiddhi is a short doctrinal work now edited (Hanneder 2017).

930 — Induraja — Abhinavagupta's Dhvani teacher: his Laghuvrtti on Udbhata's Kavyalamkarasarasamgraha survives (GRETIL), a direct witness to the poetics classroom Abhinavagupta came from before the Locana.

940 — Sambhunatha — Abhinavagupta's Kaula teacher from Jalandhara: the Kula transmission through which Abhinava reports full satisfaction (after Krama experiments and Trika study) and enlightenment/true peace. No independent works catalogued.

950 — Lakshmanagupta — 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.

955 — Abhinavagupta — Polymath systematiser of Trika/Kaula/Krama/Pratyabhijna (fl. c. 975-1025): Tantraloka, Tantrasara, IPV/IPVV, Paratrimsika exegesis, early stotras.

975 — Ksemaraja (Rajanaka Ksemaraja) — Pupil of Abhinavagupta; systematiser for students (PHrdaya, 20 sutras). Commentator across Agama, Spanda and Pratyabhijna for the nondual reading.

1225 — Jayaratha (Rajanaka) — The great scholiast: his Viveka commentary (12 vols KSTS with root) establishes Krama/Trika readings — incl. the long controversy settling Lakshmanagupta's Krama+Trikaship. Also Vimarshini on Ruyyaka's Alankarasarvasva (poetics).

1320 — Lalla (Lal Ded, Lalleshvari) — Fourteenth-century Kashmiri mystic poetess: the Vakhyani speak nondual recognition in the vernacular.

date unknown — Sivopadhyaya — Late (18th-c.) Kashmir exegete: his Vivrti on the Vijnanabhairava Tantra carries the Trika reading into the early-modern period. Sanskrit e-text not yet held (KSTS/print) — pointer, honestly flagged.

date unknown — Yogaraja — Witness and scholiast: testifies Abhinavagupta had attained oneness with Mahesvara, and his Samgrahavivrti commentary carries the Paramarthasara line.