Vyaas Almighty

Do you know who is महर्षि व्यास ?


Who doesn't know about महर्षि व्यास ? Indian culture would be orphan without his enormous contribution


This was the words I read first when I was reading mahabharata epic. Thanks to my beloved friends who teased my general knowledge to death. This made me go and read the epic.


well I was so much fascinated by this person व्यास?


and what are his contribution(s)?





well here it is.


Sage परासर got fascinated with fisherwomen मत्श्यगंधा and gave birth to व्यास


story of mahabharat is written by Vyaas . It starts from hastinapur king Dushyant.


He goes out for a hunt and find's himself being hunted by "shakuntala"।


Yep Shakuntala is very beautiful women. She is born beccause Mr. Indra wanted to spoil the penance of sage vishwamitra as it would result is devastation. So he sends menaka to spoil his penance. Indra succeeds and shakuntala is born.


Shatanu and Ganga gave birth to bhisma. Actually ganga gave birth to 8 childrens last one of them is bhisma and she drowned rest of them.


This same shantanu after 8 kids fell for satyawati, gorgeous daughter of fisherman. They gave birth to two kids. Out of them one died and other got married to ambika and ambalika. Satyavati also had a relationship with sage parasar. Now I think I am loosing the track.


So satyawati beccame mother of vyaas. satyawati's both the kids dies before giving birth to any kins.


Satyawati asks bhisma to go in for relationship with the two girls ambika and ambalika. Bhisma refuses and then vyaas is called for relationship(s).


first one to go was ambika and she gave birth to blind Dhritirastra. ambalika gives birth to pandu. Satyawati asks vyaas to enter the relationship again with ambika but this time ambika scared by vyaas looks sends in her maid. Now vyaas is so engrossed and he did't even notice that it is a different girl? huh...


vidur thus was born to the maid.


Kunti mother of pandavas had a boon that she can get kid from any almighty she wants. wow what a boon.


so she experiments this boon out of curiosity and sun god appears. aaa-haaaa boon is boon kunti just tried for the sake of it but now she has to face the concequences. karna is born to kunti of sun god. she abondons him as she is unmarried.


Pandu later got married to kunti first and then mandri.. Two wifes for pandu who turned useless with curse and one each for dhritirastra & Vidur? that's strange and quite mysterious.

Now who are Kaurava's? how on the earth 100 of them?
Oh the holy vyaas is again responsible for 101 kaurava's. hundred and one! can you guys believe it?


Gandhari is said to be blessed from vyaas to have 101 kids. One can infer any meaning from this statement.


What about kunti and mandri. kunti had boons so she used then to get three sons from wind god, dharma and indra. while mandi desired ashwinikumar and got nakul and sakdev who are portrayed as handsome kids.

Aaah!.. what a complication!
well this all explains why epic of mahabharata would have been orphan without Maharshi Vyaas Ji!