Vyasa

Parentage

• mother: SatyavatīPremarital son of Satyavati by the sage Parashara.Mahabharata Adi Parva 57; 63 (primary)
• parent: Parashara

Children

• Dhritarashtra
• Vidura

Domains

• sacred knowledge
• writing and knowledge

Powers

• Divide and arrange the Vedas into four collections
• Compose the Mahabharata and the Puranas
• Deathless sage of the present age

Epithets

• वेदव्यास Sanskrit · Vedavyāsa · epithetarranger of the VedasVishnu Purana 3.4 (primary)
• कृष्णद्वैपायन Sanskrit · Kṛṣṇadvaipāyana · namethe dark one born on an islandMahabharata, Adi Parva (primary)
• बादरायण Sanskrit · Bādarāyaṇa · epithethe of the jujube (badara) island; author of the Brahma SutrasBrahma Sutras tradition (primary)

Relations

• mother: SatyavatīPremarital son of Satyavati by the sage Parashara.Mahabharata Adi Parva 57; 63 (primary)
• parent of: PāṇḍuBiological father of Pandu by niyoga with the widow Ambalika.Mahabharata Adi Parva 105-106 (primary)
• half sibling: Vichitravirya

Sources

• existence: Mahabharata (BORI) Adi Parva 57; 63; 100; 105-106; Bhagavata Purana 1.4 (primary)