Stories of Mahabharata (The story of the Birth of Veda Vyasa )

Veda Vyasa compiled the Vedas and was the author of many Puranas and the great epic Mahabharata. Through this article, we shall know all the facts related to his birth. With the blessings of his mother and the tenacity of his father, he became a famous sage.

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 Ved Vyas's mother's name was Satyavati. Satyavati was the daughter of Apsara Adrika. Adrika became a fish due to the curse and lived in the river Yamuna. Once King Vasu of Chedi went hunting and hunted a heron. He wanted to give this heron to his wife but it falls into the river Yamuna and is eaten by the Adrika(who became a fish due to a curse). The king caught that fish and cut its stomach and saw that there were two children in its stomach, a boy and a girl. 

The king takes the boy with him and tells his subjects that he is the prince of Chedi. Raja Vasu gives that girl to a fisherman named Matsya Gandhi. He brings her up as his own daughter and names her Kali (as she is dark in complexion). With time Kali's name becomes Satyavati. Satyavati's father also used to drive a boat. Satyavati used to help her father in his work. Satyavati now grows up and her father starts searching for a suitable groom for her.

One day, Satyavati meets sage Parashara, who asks her to drop him across the Yamuna river. Satyavati's father was busy with some other work, due to which Satyavati had to drive the boat and take Rishi Parashara across the Yamuna. Sage Pharashara calculated the planets positioning and said to Satyavati that if a child is born now he would benefit the world and asked her permission but Satyavati refused it saying that he is a Brahmin and Satyavati is the daughter of a minor fisherman, by doing this the prestige of her family is destroyed. then Satyavati agreed on one condition saying that if Rishi Parashara could turn her back into a virgin after the childbirth, she can bear the child with both their consent they made intercourse and a son was born. This son became very famous and a scholar in the world. His knowledge should be discussed far and wide.

Rishi Parashara turned Satyavati back into a virgin, Satyavati's son grows up immediately with the penance and blessings of sage Parashara and becomes a stout young man. He promises his mother Satyavati that whenever she calls him he will immediately come to her and fulfill her wish. At that time he was named Krishna. After this, he went to the forest and get engrossed in penance. Later he compiled the Vedas into four and got the name, Veda Vyasa. Vyasa compiled the Vedas and Puranas and was the author of t the great epic Mahabharata.  

Since he is the son of Satyavati that makes him the great-grandfather of the Pandavas and Kauravas