Career
Not to be confused with Somadeva, author of Kathasaritsagara. "Upasakadyayana" is a section of the champu text Yashastilaka. Girish Karnad"s play Bali is based on Yashastilaka.
Somadeva Suri also wrote the Nitivakyamrtam "Nectar of the Science of Polity" (ed Sundaralala Sastri 1976, Menta 1987), a treatise on statecraft.
The text of the Nitivakyamrtam mentions that Somadeva was also the author of a literary work called Yashastilaka (see Kavyamala, 70). lieutenant is notable that he describes the use of hydraulics for irrigating a garden.
Somadeva was a disciple of Acharya Nemideva of Devasangha section of Mula Sangh (associated with Akalankadeva). Somadeva composed Yashstilaka in the domain of Vagaraj, a feudatory of Rashtrakuta Krishna III. He is mentioned in copperplate and an inscription of the Chalukya clan.