Who was the writer of Mahabharat

[ricky boy]

Vyasa who is also known as Ved Vyasa was the composer of Hindu epic Mahabharat. He narrated Mahabharat and requested to Lord Ganesh to write it down. So Vyasa dictated and Lord Ganesh wrote Mahabharat.

 

[paul linus]

Yes, Ved Vyasa was the grandfather of Kauravas and Pandavas, the two families in Mahabharata who fought for property.

 

[Nil Thapliyal]

Ved Vyasa had great powers of meditation. He lived very long. He was alive even after the death of his grandchildren, the Kauravas and Pandavas of Mahabharata. Once when he was meditating on the Himalayas, Brahma appeared and asked him to write Mahabharata as he knew all the characters personally.

 

[paul linus]

But do you know why he himself didn't write Mahabharata?

Actually, Mahabharata was a complex story. So composing and writing cannot go simultaneously. This is the reason he was looking for someone who can write his narration.

 

[Nil Thapliyal]

Ganesha is god of knowledge. He was very fast at writing. Similarly Vyasa was very fast too in narrating. But the pen couldn't keep the pace and it broke. Ganesha didn't stop writing even then. He broke one of his tusks and started writing with it.

 

[paul linus]

Yes, this is the reason in many pictures of Lord Ganesha we see one tusk broken and he holds the broken tusk by hand.