Vyasa
unknown dates, pre-history
unknown dates, pre-history
aka: Veda Vyasa; Krishna Dvaipayana;
Badarayana
Devanāgarī: व्यास Vyasa
Hindu saint, sage, avatar, etc.
supposed author of the Vedas, Mahabharata,
Puranas, and other Hindu holy texts...
was the one who "split" the one Veda into four--his
name "Vyasa" means "the splitter".
his history is highly ambiguous--possibly a
combination of myth, history, legend, folklore, multi-
identity mergings, etc.
thought to be by some the same man as
Badarayana, the reputed author of the Brahma
Sutras--others think these are two separate
personages.
Badarayana
Devanāgarī: व्यास Vyasa
Hindu saint, sage, avatar, etc.
supposed author of the Vedas, Mahabharata,
Puranas, and other Hindu holy texts...
was the one who "split" the one Veda into four--his
name "Vyasa" means "the splitter".
his history is highly ambiguous--possibly a
combination of myth, history, legend, folklore, multi-
identity mergings, etc.
thought to be by some the same man as
Badarayana, the reputed author of the Brahma
Sutras--others think these are two separate
personages.
| oshobob The Living Workshop |
| People in Osho's Talks |
| In India we have many books written by one man, Vyasa. The Mahabharata is enough. To write a book like The Mahabharata is enough for one author. It is an Encyclopedia Britannica. It will make one man famous for ages to come. And that is only one of the books that he has written – there are hundreds of books in his name... --Osho Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol. 2, ch. 14 |