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1. Maharishi Ved Vyas, son of sage Parashara and Nishad daughter Satyavati, became young as soon as he was born and went to Dwaipayan Island to do penance. He was born on Ashadi Purnima.
2. He became black by penance, hence he came to be called Krishna Dvaipayana. It is also said that he was born on an island in the middle of the river Yamuna and was dark, hence he was named Krishna Dvaipayana.
3. Veda Vyasa is a title. He was Ved Vyasji, the 28th of this kalpa.
4. The name of Maharishi Ved Vyas is also mentioned in the description of 24 incarnations of Lord Vishnu in Shrimad Bhagwat Purana.
5. The Ashta Chiranjeevi (8 immortal people) who have been mentioned in the scriptures, Maharishi Ved Vyas is also one of them, so they are considered alive even today.
6. At the behest of Satyavati, Ved Vyasji gave birth to Vichitravirya's wife Ambalika and Ambika with his power, sons named Dhritarashtra and Pandu, and Vidura was born from a maidservant.
7. Out of these 3 sons, when Dhritarashtra did not have any son, then by the grace of Ved Vyas 99 sons and 1 daughter were born.
8. At the end of Mahabharata, when Ashwatthama leaves the Brahmastra, Ved Vyasa requests him to take back his Brahmastra. But Ashwatthama did not know how to take back, so he dropped that weapon in the womb of Abhimanyu's wife Uttara. Due to this grave sin, Shri Krishna curses him to wander as a leper for 3,000 years, which Veda Vyasa also approves.
9. Maharishi Ved Vyas had given Sanjay a divine vision to see the war of Mahabharata, due to which Sanjay narrated the entire war to Dhritarashtra in the palace itself.
10. The first geographical map of the earth in the world was made by Maharishi Ved Vyas, the author of Mahabharata.
11. The name of the wife of Krishna Dvaipayana Ved Vyasa was Aruni, who had a great son named Shukdev.
12. Ved Vyasa had 4 great disciples to whom he taught 4 Vedas – Angveda to Muni Pail, Yajurveda to Vaishampayana, Samaveda to Jaimini and Atharvaveda to Sumantu.
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13. Once Ved Vyas went to meet Dhritarashtra and Gandhari in the forest, then Yudhishthira was also present there. Dhritarashtra expressed a desire to Vyasji to see his dead relatives and relatives. Then Maharishi Vyas took everyone to the banks of the Ganges. There Vyasji called the departed warriors. After a while, the warriors of both sides came out of the water, along with Bhishma and Drona. All of them met their former relatives in the night and before sunrise again entered the Ganges and went to their celestial realms.
14. When Maharishi Ved Vyas saw the growing influence of Kaliyuga, he had advised the Pandavas to travel to heaven.
15. Lord Ganesha wrote the Mahabharata according to the words of Maharishi Ved Vyaji.
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