Wednesday, February 19, 2020

PDE Mahabharata Reading Notes: Part A


Vyasa dictates to Ganesha source: Wikipedia 

Vyasa and Ganesha 


  • Vyasa is the author of the Mahabharata & arranged the Vedas that contained everything that man out to know of thing on earth and in heaven
  •  anxious for someone to write it down but declared that no one on earth is worthy of such a task 
  • Vyasa repeated it to a disciple who then recited it at a snake sacrifice 

The story of Vyasa's birth: 
  • King of Chedi that was devoted to asceticism & the gods feared he sought to rob them of their powerr
  • Indra was sent to bribe with a crystal car that was capable of carrying him through the sky
  • As he was flying through the sky, his semen fell into the the river & was swallowed by a female fish 
    • 10 month later the fish was caught & out came a boy and a girl
  • the king took the boy after the fishermen showed him what he found
    • the girl was left to be the fishermen's wife 
  • Upon ferrying across the river, the rishi persuaded the girl to yield his embrace & promised she'd remain a virgin & lose her fishy smell 
  • a child was born on an island 
    • called Dwaipayana (island bloom)
      • called Vyasa due to arranging the Vedas 



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