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Download Solution PDFAbhinavagupta was a famous acharya of which of the following schools?
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Download Solution PDF- ABHINAVAGUPTA was one of the most outstanding Acharyas of the Shaiva philosophy.
- We learn from references about him in Tantraloka and Paratrimshika Vivarana that he lived in Kashmir about the end of the tenth and the beginning of eleventh centuries A.D.
- Abhinavagupta was a famous acharya of Pratayabhijna schools.
- The earliest ancestor of Abhinavagupta was a famous Brahmin, Attrigupta, who lived in Autarvedi, the ancient name of a tract of land lying between the Ganga and the Yamuna. Attrigupta, a great Shaiva teacher, was invited by King Lalitaditya, who ruled over Kashmir from 700-736 A.D. A spacious house was soon built by the orders of the king on the banks of the Jhelum (Vitasta) for Attrigupta and a big Jagir was granted to him for his maintenance. Many generations after him, one of his descendants, named Varahagupta, became a great scholar of Shaiva philosophy.
- His son, Narasimhagupta, alias Chukhala, father of Abhinavagupta, was also a great Shaiva teacher.
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