Vyasa

Vyasa, whose name means compiler or arranger, is a sage traditionally credited as the author of the Mahabharata, one of the two great Sanskrit epics of Hinduism, and is revered across most Hindu traditions as the compiler of the Vedic mantras into their four collections as well as the traditional author of the eighteen Puranas and the Brahma Sutras. He is also known as Veda Vyasa or Krishna Dvaipayana, and Hindu tradition additionally regards him as a partial incarnation of Vishnu and counts him among the Chiranjivis, a group of immortals held to remain alive in the present age. As with Homer, whose historical existence is itself an open question in this atlas's own established treatment of authorship debates, Vyasa's authorship of the Mahabharata rests on tradition and internal textual attribution rather than independent historical confirmation.