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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