सूत उवाच
श्रुत्वा तु सर्पसत्राय दीक्षितं जनमेजयम् ॥
अभ्यागच्छद् ऋषिर् विद्वान् कृष्णद्वैपायनस् तदा ॥
जनयाम् आस यं काली शक्तेः पुत्रात् पराशरात् ॥
कन्यैव यमुनाद्वीपे पाण्डवानां पितामहम् ॥
जातमात्रश् च यः सद्य इष्ट्या देहम् अवीवृधत् ॥
वेदांश् चाधिजगे साङ्गान् सेतिहासान् महायशाः ॥
यं नातितपसा कश् चिन् न वेदाध्ययनेन च ॥
न व्रतैर् नोपवासैश् च न प्रसूत्या न मन्युना ॥
विव्यासैकं चतुर्धा यो वेदं वेदविदां वरः ॥
परावरज्ञो ब्रह्मर्षिः कविः सत्यव्रतः शुचिः ॥
यः पाण्डुं धृतराष्ट्रं च विदुरं चाप्य् अजीजनत् ॥
शंतनोः संततिं तन्वन् पुण्यकीर्तिर् महायशाः ॥
sūta uvāca
śrutvā tu sarpasatrāya dīkṣitaṃ janamejayam ||
abhyāgacchad ṛṣir vidvān kṛṣṇadvaipāyanas tadā ||
janayām āsa yaṃ kālī śakteḥ putrāt parāśarāt ||
kanyaiva yamunādvīpe pāṇḍavānāṃ pitāmaham ||
jātamātraś ca yaḥ sadya iṣṭyā deham avīvṛdhat ||
vedāṃś cādhijage sāṅgān setihāsān mahāyaśāḥ ||
yaṃ nātitapasā kaś cin na vedādhyayanena ca ||
na vratair nopavāsaiś ca na prasūtyā na manyunā ||
vivyāsaikaṃ caturdhā yo vedaṃ vedavidāṃ varaḥ ||
parāvarajño brahmarṣiḥ kaviḥ satyavrataḥ śuciḥ ||
yaḥ pāṇḍuṃ dhṛtarāṣṭraṃ ca viduraṃ cāpy ajījanat ||
śaṃtanoḥ saṃtatiṃ tanvan puṇyakīrtir mahāyaśāḥ ||
Suta said: "Having heard that Janamejaya had been consecrated for the serpent sacrifice, the learned sage Krishna-Dvaipayana (Vyasa) then came there -- he whom Kali (Satyavati), while still a maiden, bore to Parashara, son of Shakti, on an island of the river Yamuna, as the grandfather of the Pandavas. He who, the very instant he was born, at once matured his body by his own will (by a feat of ascetic effort) and mastered the Vedas together with their angas (ancillary sciences) and the itihasas (histories), a man of great renown. He whom no one could surpass -- not by the greatest austerity, not by study of the Vedas, not by vows, not by fasting, not by begetting offspring, not by righteous wrath. He who, the best of those versed in the Vedas, divided the single Veda into four parts -- knower of the higher and the lower, a brahmarshi, a sage-poet, true to his vow, pure. He who begot Pandu, Dhritarashtra, and also Vidura, continuing the line of Shantanu, a man of holy and great renown."
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Here Vyasa himself appears -- the compiler of this epic and, at the same time, a character within it. It is significant that the narrative, preparing to tell the great tale, first glorifies the creator himself: Vyasa is no outside author, but the forefather of its heroes (father of Pandu, Dhritarashtra, and Vidura) and the arranger of the Vedas (who divided the single Veda into four). Herein lies a special distinction of this scripture: it was uttered not by an ordinary man but by an embodied descent (avatara) of God's wisdom -- Vyasa himself is honored as the literary incarnation of Vishnu (veda-vyasa-avatara), who appeared in order to divide the Vedas and compile the Mahabharata and the Puranas for the good of the people of the age of Kali. Note also the wondrous signs of his greatness: born on an island of the Yamuna to a maiden and a sage, he matured to manhood the instant he was born and grasped all knowledge; thus the scripture signals that before us is no ordinary legend, but the fruit of superhuman wisdom. And the fact that he himself comes to the rite binds the narrator, the heroes, and the listeners into one: the creator stands amid his own creation.