BĀDARĀYAṆA, reputed author of the Vedānta Sūtra (Brahma Sūtra), the source text for all subsequent philosophical Vedānta. No biographical information is available; the name may be a convenient surrogate...

(‘arranger’), also: Vedavyāsa the traditional name for the unknown redactor(s) of the Veda. The redaction or final fixing of the RV is believed to have taken place around 1000 B.C. under unknown circumstances, and that of SV and YV...

Vyāsa (Devanāgarī: व्यास) is a central and much revered figure in the majority of Hindu traditions. He is also sometimes called Veda Vyasa (वेद व्यास, veda vyāsa), (the one who compiled the Vedas) or Krishna Dvaipayana...

This book, which is based on a Ph.D. dissertation completed at the University of Chicago, is an overview of Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa's role in the Mahabharata that alternates between cataloging the ways Vyasa is presented, on the one hand, and making an argument...

After an extraordinary twenty-six years' wait, the J. A. B. van Buitenen translation of the Mahabharata has been resumed by James L. Fitzgerald and it has been well worth the wait. Fitzgerald is to be congratulated for a vigorous, nuanced, and often deeply...