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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2>
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<div id="SB_Canto_1" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 1"><h3>SB Canto 1</h3>
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<div id="SB1321_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="77" link="SB 1.3.21" link_text="SB 1.3.21">
<div class="heading">Śrī Vyāsadeva appeared in the womb of Satyavatī through Parāśara Muni, and he divided the one Veda into several branches and subbranches, seeing that the people in general were less intelligent.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.3.21|SB 1.3.21, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thereafter, in the seventeenth incarnation of Godhead, Śrī Vyāsadeva appeared in the womb of Satyavatī through Parāśara Muni, and he divided the one Veda into several branches and subbranches, seeing that the people in general were less intelligent.</p>
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<div id="SB1414_2" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="114" link="SB 1.4.14" link_text="SB 1.4.14">
<div class="heading">When the second millennium overlapped the third, the great sage (Vyāsadeva) was born to Parāśara in the womb of Satyavatī, the daughter of Vasu.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.4.14|SB 1.4.14, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Sūta Gosvāmī said: When the second millennium overlapped the third, the great sage (Vyāsadeva) was born to Parāśara in the womb of Satyavatī, the daughter of Vasu.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>There is a chronological order of the four millenniums, namely Satya, Dvāpara, Tretā and Kali. But sometimes there is overlapping. During the regime of Vaivasvata Manu, there was an overlapping of the twenty-eighth round of the four millenniums, and the third millennium appeared prior to the second. In that particular millennium, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa also descends, and because of this there was some particular alteration. The mother of the great sage was Satyavatī the daughter of the Vasu (fisherman), and the father was the great Parāśara Muni. That is the history of Vyāsadeva's birth. Every millennium is divided into three periods, and each period is called a sandhyā. Vyāsadeva appeared in the third sandhyā of that particular age.</p>
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<div id="SB1967_3" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="323" link="SB 1.9.6-7" link_text="SB 1.9.6-7">
<div class="heading">He was the son of Mahāmuni Parāśara in the womb of Satyavatī.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.9.6-7|SB 1.9.6-7, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">He is known as Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana, Dvaipāyana, Satyavatī-suta, Pārāśarya, Parāśarātmaja, Bādarāyaṇa, Vedavyāsa, etc. He was the son of Mahāmuni Parāśara in the womb of Satyavatī prior to her betrothal with Mahārāja Śantanu, the father of the great general Grandfather Bhīṣmadeva. He is a powerful incarnation of Nārāyaṇa, and he broadcasts the Vedic wisdom to the world. As such, Vyāsadeva is offered respects before one chants the Vedic literature, especially the Purāṇas.</p>
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<div id="SB119910_4" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_1" book="SB" index="749" link="SB 1.19.9-10" link_text="SB 1.19.9-10">
<div class="heading">Parāśara Muni begot Vyāsadeva, being attracted by Satyavatī, who was to become the wife of Mahārāja Śāntanu.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 1.19.9-10|SB 1.19.9-10, Purport]]: </span><div class="purport text">Parāśara: He is the grandson of Vasiṣṭha Muni and father of Vyāsadeva. He is the son of Maharṣi Śakti, and his mother's name was Adṛśyatī. He was in the womb of his mother when she was only twelve years old. And from within the womb of his mother he learned the Vedas. His father was killed by a demon, Kalmāṣapāda, and to avenge this he wanted to annihilate the whole world. He was restrained, however, by his grandfather Vasiṣṭha. He then performed a Rākṣasa-killing yajña, but Maharṣi Pulastya restrained him. He begot Vyāsadeva, being attracted by Satyavatī, who was to become the wife of Mahārāja Śāntanu. By the blessings of Parāśara, Satyavatī became fragrant for miles. He was present also during the time of Bhīṣma's death. He was spiritual master of Mahārāja Janaka and a great devotee of Lord Śiva. He is the author of many Vedic scriptures and sociological directions.
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<div id="SB_Canto_3" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 3"><h3>SB Canto 3</h3>
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<div id="SB3520_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_3" book="SB" index="163" link="SB 3.5.20" link_text="SB 3.5.20">
<div class="heading">Vyāsadeva is the son of Satyavatī by the great King Śāntanu, the father of Bhīṣmadeva.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 3.5.20|SB 3.5.20, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">I know that you are now Vidura due to the cursing of Māṇḍavya Muni and that formerly you were King Yamarāja, the great controller of living entities after their death. You were begotten by the son of Satyavatī, Vyāsadeva, in the kept wife of his brother.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Māṇḍavya Muni was a great sage (cf. SB 1.13.1), and Vidura was formerly the controller Yamarāja, who takes charge of the living entities after death. Birth, maintenance and death are three conditional states of the living entities who are within the material world. As the appointed controller after death, Yamarāja once tried Māṇḍavya Muni for his childhood profligacy and ordered him to be pierced with a lance. Māṇḍavya, being angry at Yamarāja for awarding him undue punishment, cursed him to become a śūdra (member of the less intelligent laborer class). Thus Yamarāja took birth in the womb of the kept wife of Vicitravīrya from the semen of Vicitravīrya's brother, Vyāsadeva. Vyāsadeva is the son of Satyavatī by the great King Śāntanu, the father of Bhīṣmadeva. This mysterious history of Vidura was known to Maitreya Muni because he happened to be a contemporary friend of Vyāsadeva's. In spite of Vidura's birth from the womb of a kept wife, because he had otherwise high parentage and great connection he inherited the highest talent of becoming a great devotee of the Lord. To take birth in such a great family is understood to be an advantage for attaining devotional life. Vidura was given this chance due to his previous greatness.</p>
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<div id="SB_Cantos_1014_to_12_Translations_Only" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3>
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<div id="SB1264849_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Cantos_10.14_to_12_(Translations_Only)" book="SB" index="4582" link="SB 12.6.48-49" link_text="SB 12.6.48-49">
<div class="heading">O most fortunate Śaunaka, the almighty Lord, exhibiting a divine spark of a portion of His plenary portion, then appeared in the womb of Satyavatī as the son of Parāśara.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 12.6.48-49|SB 12.6.48-49, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">O brāhmaṇa, in the present age of Vaivasvata Manu, the leaders of the universe, led by Brahmā and Śiva, requested the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the protector of all the worlds, to save the principles of religion. O most fortunate Śaunaka, the almighty Lord, exhibiting a divine spark of a portion of His plenary portion, then appeared in the womb of Satyavatī as the son of Parāśara. In this form, named Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa, he divided the one Veda into four.</p>
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureonSB1321LosAngelesSeptember261972_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="118" link="Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972">
<div class="heading">Parāśara actually was not husband of Satyavatī. When Satyavatī was not married, Parāśara gave birth to Vyāsadeva.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)</p>
:tataḥ saptadaśe jātaḥ
:satyavatyāṁ parāśarāt
:cakre veda-taroḥ śākhā
:dṛṣṭvā puṁso 'lpa-medhasaḥ
:([[Vanisource:SB 1.3.21|SB 1.3.21]])
<p>Translation: "Thereafter, in the seventeenth incarnation of Godhead, Śrī Vyāsadeva appeared in the womb of Satyavatī, wife of Parāśara Muni, and he divided the one Veda into several branches and sub-branches, seeing that the people in general were less intelligent."</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So this Parāśara actually was not husband of Satyavatī. When Satyavatī was not married, Parāśara gave birth to Vyāsadeva. Later on Satyavatī became the wife of Mahārāja Śantanu, father of Bhīṣmadeva. This Satyavatī was the daughter of a fisherman. She was neither born of a brāhmaṇa father or kṣatriya father. So formerly, a higher-caste man could accept a girl born of lower caste, but a lower-caste man could not accept a girl born of higher caste. That was the system. Because in the śāstra it is... Ordinary, I mean to say, instructive śāstra.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB1321LosAngelesSeptember261972_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="118" link="Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972">
<div class="heading">Parāśarāt, semina given by Parāśara Muni in the womb of Satyavatī, satyavatyām.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972|Lecture on SB 1.3.21 -- Los Angeles, September 26, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this was the society principle, how to keep principle. Brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya. A very exalted status of society. So this Satyavatī is a famous woman in the history. Satyavatī. The whole Pāṇḍu-vaṁśa from Satyavatī. So now, here it is said that tataḥ saptadaśe jātaḥ satyavatyāṁ parāśarāt. Parāśarāt, semina given by Parāśara Muni in the womb of Satyavatī, satyavatyām. And cakre veda-taroḥ śākhāḥ. Veda, the knowledge, he divided. Vyāsadeva divided into many branches. Therefore Vyāsadeva is known as Veda-vyāsa. He expanded the Vedic knowledge. Formerly there was only one Veda, Atharva-veda. And this Atharva-veda was learned by tradition, by hearing from the spiritual master. There was no book. Therefore Veda is known as śruti. Śruti means hearing. The spiritual master will recite Vedic mantra, and the disciples will hear. Just like we chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra or any other Vedic mantra. You hear. But there was no need of book. His memory was so sharp that once heard from the lips of the spiritual master, the students become completely well versed. There was no need of book.</p>
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