Vyasa
Biography
Vyasa is a legendary sage who appears across most strands of Hindu tradition. Tradition credits him with the Mahabharata, the long Sanskrit epic about a great dynastic war, and he also appears inside that poem as one of its characters. Other names for him include Veda Vyasa, which can be read as the one who arranged the Vedas, and Krishna Dvaipayana. Many Hindus regard him as a partial incarnation of Vishnu and as one of the immortals who are believed to be still living in the present age.
No dates can be given for Vyasa. The Mahabharata and the Puranas grew over many centuries, and tradition has attached further works to his name, among them the Brahma Sutras and a sorting of the Vedic mantras into four collections. None of these claims can be checked against historical records, so a page about him can only report what the traditions say.
The book on this site, The Song Celestial, is the Bhagavad-Gita, the dialogue between the god Krishna and the warrior Arjuna on the battlefield just before the fighting starts. The poem forms part of the Mahabharata, and the site credits Vyasa as its author. This edition is Sir Edwin Arnold's English verse translation, first published in 1885, and it was widely read in its day.
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Books
The Song Celestial (the Bhagavad-Gita)
by Vyasa (translated by Edwin Arnold)
On the field of Kurukshetra the warrior Arjuna loses heart at the sight of his kinsmen in the opposing army, and his charioteer Krishna reveals himself as God and teaches him the paths of action, devotion and knowledge. Sir Edwin Arnold's 1885 verse translation was long the way…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.