Bhaskara (Kashmiri)

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Bhaskara was a notable writer on the Kashmir Shaivism sect of Hinduism. He wrote an important commentary on the Shiva Sutras of Vasugupta.[1] According to Dyczkowski, "We know nothing about him except that he was the son of one Divakarabhatta and was, therefore, like the other Kashmiri Saiva authors, a Brahmin by caste, as Bhatta was a title bestowed to learned Brahmins in Kashmir at that time" (p. 2[1]).

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Vasugupta and Bhāskarabhaṭṭa (n.d./1992) The aphorisms of Śiva: the ŚivaSūtra with Bhāskara's commentary, the Vārttika (Mark S. G. Dyczkowski, trans.). SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-1264-4, ISBN 978-0-7914-1264-0