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Vyasa was the author of epic Mahabharata. According to the Mahabharata, the sage Vyasa was the son of Satyavati and Parashara. He was also the surrogate father of Dhritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura. They were born through Niyoga. Later, he helped in birth of 101 children of Dhritarashtra and Gandhari. He also helped the Pandavas many times.
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A Persian translation of Mahabharata, titled Razmnameh, was produced at Akbar's orders, by Faizi and ʽAbd al-Qadir Badayuni in the 16th century. [ 73 ] The first complete English translation was the Victorian prose version by Kisari Mohan Ganguli , [ 74 ] published between 1883 and 1896 (Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers) and by Manmatha Nath ...
[6] [7] In the Mahabharata, Vyasa is also called Krishna, which refers to his dark complexion (krishna), and as Dvaipāyana, as his birthplace was on an island (dvaipayana), [8] He is also referred to as "Vaishampayan" (Sanskrit: वैशम्पायन, Vaiṣampāyana).
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The Sanskrit epic Mahabharata contains several enumeration of tribes or clans.. The earliest terms used "clan" or "tribe" in Vedic Sanskrit were jana and vis. Heinrich Zimmer regarded the word vis to denote a social structure identical with the English "tribe", and different from a grama which, he considered, represented a "clan"—midway between "family" (kula) and tribe.