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,[3] the two formed the first wave of Kashmiri Shaivites to propose in a rigorous and logical way the concepts of nondual Shaivism. Somananda lived in Kashmir, most probably in Srinagar,[3] where most of the later philosophers of the school lived, as a householder.