Vyasa
व्यास, lit. 'compiler, arranger',
—a rishi (sage) with a prominent role in most Hindu traditions.
known as
-Veda Vyasa (वेदव्यास, 'the one who classified the Veda)
-Krishna Dvaipayana (कृष्णद्वैपायन)
-Bādarāyaṇa
author of the
-epic Mahābhārata—also plays a prominent role as a character.
-eighteen Purāṇas
-the Brahma Sutras.
-compiler of the many Vedic rics into four
Bādarāyaṇa is an epithet of Vyasa deriving from either:
(1) association with a bādara (jujube/ber) tree or a place named Badari/Badarikāśrama;
(2) a clan/gotra name; or
(3) later scholastic convention naming the Brahma-Sūtra author. Over time the names merged in tradition, so the author of the Brahma Sūtras is commonly called Bādarāyaṇa (and identified with Veda Vyāsa)
Vyasa in mahabharatha
Father of Pānḍu, Kuru king
(fathered 'under Niyoga practice' in place of an elder brother who died heirless, at the behest of his mother Satyavati. )
-the surgeon who put the hundred brothers of kauravas into incubation,by a boon he conferred on their mother.