{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Short description|9th-century Shaivite thinker}} '''Bhatta Kallata''' also referred as '''Kallata''' was a notable 9th-century Kashmiri Shaivite thinker who may have written the ''Spanda-vritti'', and ''Spanda-karika''.<ref name="Parmeshwaranand2004">{{cite book|author=Swami Parmeshwaranand|title=Encyclopaedia of the Śaivism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N4xIBNmhpXcC&pg=PA32|year=2004|publisher=Sarup & Sons|isbn=978-81-7625-427-4|pages=32–}}</ref><ref name="Dyczkowski1992">{{cite book|author=Mark S. G. Dyczkowski|title=The Stanzas on Vibration: The SpandaKarika with Four Commentaries: The SpandaSamdoha by Ksemaraja, The SpandaVrtti by Kallatabhatta, The SpandaVivrti by Rajanaka Rama, The SpandaPradipika by Bhagavadutpala|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tM-y2WBYubcC&pg=PA22|date=1992|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-1261-9|pages=22–}}</ref>
He was a pupil of Vasugupta, another possible author of the ''Spanda-karika''. According to ''Rajatarangini'' (The River of Kings) written in 12th-century CE by Kalhana, he lived during the reign of Avanti Varman (855-883 CE).<ref name="Chatterji1914">{{cite book|author=Jagadish Chandra Chatterji|title=Kashmir Shaivaism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ErhIBHJEkwC&pg=PA156|year=1914|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-88706-179-0|pages=156–}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * ''Yoga Spandakarika: The Sacred Texts at the Origins of Tantra'', by Daniel Odier. Inner Traditions, 2005 {{ISBN|1594770514}}. * {{cite book|author=Mark S. G. Dyczkowski|title=The Stanzas on Vibration: The SpandaKarika with Four Commentaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tM-y2WBYubcC&pg=PA22|date=1992|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-1261-9|pages=22–}} == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== * {{cite web| title = "The Doctrine of Vibration", 1989 (online text)|author= Mark Dyczkowsky| url = https://archive.org/stream/TheDoctrineOfVibration-MarkDyczkowsky/TheDoctrineOfVibration.AnAnalysisOfTheDoctrinesAndPracticesOfKashmirShaivism.m.dyczkowskidelhi1989600dpilossy_djvu.txt }}
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