Ancient Indians – Satya Samhita

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In this site whenever I say Vyasa or Veda Vyasa, I always mean Krishna Dwaipayana, the son of Parasara and Satyavati, the great grandson of Vasishtha and the father of Suka, Dhiritarashtra, Pandu and Vidura.

However, it is written in the Devi Bhagavatham, that every Dwapara Yuga, had its own Veda Vyasa, the one who classified the Vedas.

The important thing about our Veda Vyasa, is that he classified the Vedas into 4 vedas and included the Atharva Veda as the 4th Veda. And of course he also edited and compiled all the Puranas, which he received from his pUrvajAs (people born earlier to him). And as if this was not enough he authored the Mahabharatam and the Srimad Bhagavatham.

When Hanuman met Sri Rama for the first time.  Rama praised Hanuman to Lakshmana, saying that Hanuman‘s excellent speech clearly indicated mastery over the Rg, Yajur and Sama Vedas.

This is important also from the point of view that Valmiki referred to 3 vedas. Not one and not four. By the time of Sri Rama, there were 3 Vedas already.

So who did this classification? One of the earlier Vyasas. Who were they? Please see the list from Devi Bhagavatham reproduced below. Below that you can find some of my thoughts and conclusions, which I think are important.

The names of the Veda Vyasas of each Dvapara Yuga :

The present auspicious Manvantara is Vaivaswatha Manu; it is the seventh in due order; and the son of Satyavati, the best of the knowers of Dharma, is the Veda Vyâsa of the 28th Dvâpara Yuga of this seventh Manvantara. In the next Dvâpara, Yuga Asvatthama, the son of Drona will be the Veda Vyâsa. Twenty-seven Veda Vyâsas had expired and they duly compiled each their own Purâna Samhitas in their own Dvâpara Yugas.

1. In the first Dvâpara, Brahmâ Himself divided the Vedas;
2. In the second Dvâpara, the first Prajapati Vyâsa did the same;
3. So S’akra, (Indra) in the third,
4. Brihaspati, in the fourth,
5. Surya in the fifth;
6. Yama, in the sixth,
7. Indra, in the seventh,
8. Vasistha, in the eighth;
9. Sarasvata Risi in the ninth,
10. Tridhama, in the tenth;
11. Trivrisa, in the eleventh,
12. Bharadvâja, in the twelfth;
13. Antariksa, in the thirteenth;
14. Dharma, in the fourteenth;
15. Evaruni in the fifteenth;
16. Dhananjaya, in the sixteenth;
17. Medhatithi in the seventeenth;
18. Vrati, in the eighteenth;
19. Atri, in the nineteenth;
20. Gautama in the twentieth,
21. Uttama, whose soul was fixed on Hari, in the twenty-first,
22. Vâjasravâ Vena, in the twenty second;
23. His family descendant Soma, In the twenty-third;
24. Trinavindu, in the twenty-fourth;
25. Bhârgava, in the twenty-fifth;
26. Sakti, in the twenty-sixth,
27. Jâtûkarnya in the twenty-seventh
28. and Krisna Dvaipâyana became the twenty-eighth Veda Vyâsa in the Dvâpara Yugas.

My Thoughts and Conclusions :

kRSNa dwaipAyana was of the 28th Dwapara Yuga, his grandfather Sakthi was of the 26th Dwapara Yuga, his great grandfather Vasishta was of the 8th Dwapara Yuga. In my article How many kinds of Yugas are there?, I have detailed how the definitions of Mahayugas (Carturyugas) grew in length from the 5 years of the Paitamaha siddhanta to the 4,320,000 years of Aryabhatta, as more celestial bodies were taken into consideration, for computing Yuga durations.

• Krishna Dwaipayana Veda Vyasa is fifth generation from Brahma, but in the 28th Caturyuga.
• This would be about 140 years if we take 5 years as the duration for a Caturyuga.
• If we take it that each generation was born 15 years after the previous generation, we are looking at 75 years for 27 Caturyugas or about 3 years to a Caturyuga.
• If we take 12 years as the Caturyuga duration, we have 324 years between Brahma and our Vyasa. That is about 60 years between generations.
• What I am increasingly coming to believe is that first Caturyuga was 5 years old, the next was 12, then 60 and so on… The answer lies in finding the formula or equation that fits all the data points.

References and More :

• How long did ancient Indians live?
• Kaliyuga duration 360000 years, 1200 divine years, Vishnu Puranam. Tracking the growth of the Kaliyugam from 12 to 432000 years
• Human Evolution
• Generations between Rama and Krishna.
• Generations previous to Sri Rama.
• Calendars and Time in India

• Date of Sri Rama
• Date of the Mahabharata War
• Date of Veda Mantras
• Equinoxes and Dating Vedas

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