Vyāsa

Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana Vyāsa was born on an island in the Yamunā to the boatwoman Satyavatī and the sage Parāśara. He divided the one Veda, the ancient sacred knowledge of the brahmins, into four, and he made the Mahābhārata, the story of his own descendants, the Kurus and the Pāṇḍavas, in whose lives he moved from beginning to end. At his mother's call he fathered Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Pāṇḍu and Vidura. He gave Sañjaya the sight to see the war, called the dead back from the Gaṅgā for one night, and, still unsatisfied after all he had made, set down the Bhāgavata, the book of the deeds of the Lord Viṣṇu, whom it calls also Hari and Vāsudeva, and who was born on earth as Kṛṣṇa. He taught it to his son Śuka.