PROLOGUE. This episode gives a bird’s-eye-view of the grand epic in very sketchy detail. It begins with how the great Sage Vyasa, the original author of this epic, ‘roped’ in Ganapati to be Vyasa’s amanuensis, thereby recording the epic in written form for posterity. A NOTE TO LISTENERS LISTENING TO THIS EPIC FOR THE FIRST TIME: The names and events are at times confusing for those who have not grown up listening to this grand epic. But please persist and let the names and events wash over you. In time they will click and will form a rock-like wisdom in your being as the tale grows in you.