![]() ![]() ![]() Vyasa is said to have grown up in the forests of northern India as the son of a sage and the princess Satyavati, who was raised as a commoner by a fisherman. Conventionally, the Mahabharata’s composer is identified as Vyasa, an ancient, immortal, legendary poet who appears in the epic as the Pandavas’ and Kauravas’ grandfather and who ostensibly dictated it to the god Ganesha. However, scholars have suggested that the Gita was originally a separate text from the Mahabharata and inserted into the longer epic later on. The Bhagavad Gita’s authorship is uncertain and widely debated, but the entire Mahabharata (of which the Gita forms a part) was certainly passed down through various oral traditions before a number of standardized written versions emerged many hundreds of years later. ![]()
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