[Quick links] [Pause] Probably, there is no other author in the entire Indian history who is as revered, as versatile, as multifaceted, and as proficient as Vyasa who also happens to be the author of Mahabharata we are talking about.  His actual name was Krishna Dvaipayana – literally meaning ‘a dark boy born on an island!’ What a strange name!  Let me give a bit of his background.