Editing Abhinavagupta (section)

===Parents===
Abhinavagupta was born in a [[Kanyakubja Brahmin]] family in Kashmir.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7F6Sxu0-50QC |title=Proceedings and Transactions of the ... All-India Oriental Conference |page=48|date=1964 |publisher=Bihar and Orissa Research Society|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rdnrfuOJ6sC&pg=PA188|title=Living Liberation in Hindu Thought|page=188|author1=Andrew O. Fort|author2=Patricia Y. Mumme|publisher=SUNY Press|date=1 January 1996|isbn=9780791427057}}</ref> His mother, ''Vimalā'' (''Vimalakalā'') died when Abhinavagupta was just two years old;<ref name="Tantra, Tantrāloka page 4">Luce dei Tantra, Tantrāloka, Abhinavagupta, Raniero Gnoli, page 4</ref><ref name="Introduction" />{{rp|31}} as a consequence of losing his mother, of whom he was reportedly very attached,<ref name="Abhinavagupta, Ganesh Tryambak Deshpande page 19" /> he grew more distant from worldly life and focused all the more on spiritual endeavour.

The father, Narasiṃhgupt, after his wife's death favoured an ascetic lifestyle, while raising his three children. He had a cultivated mind and a heart "outstandingly adorned with devotion to Mahesvara (Shiva)"<ref name="Tantra, Tantrāloka page 4" /> (in Abhinavagupta's own words). He was Abhinavagupta's first teacher, instructing him in [[Sanskrit grammar|grammar]], [[Indian logic|logic]] and [[Sanskrit literature|literature]].<ref name="Introduction" />{{rp|30}}