Ganesha’s no fool so the techniques will need to be rock solid. The big-O notation gives us an upper bound on the number of computations, that an algorithm shall-not-exceed. What properties do we note about Satyavati? The son immediately grew up as a youth and promised his mother that he would come to her aid every time she called on him; he then left to do penance in the forest. The power set of a set S is the set of all subsets of S. For instance, with a simple set of three elements, say, {a, b, c}, the set of its subsets is {Ø, {a}, {b}, {c}, {a, b}, {a, c}, {b, c}, {a, b, c}} where Ø is the empty set. There are a few mathematical equations presented below but feel free to ignore them. Adrika was transformed by a curse into a fish, and lived in the Yamuna river. Her other birth name, Satyavati, means "truthful"; satya means "veracity". I myself take no stance in the matter. Muthu S. Lv 7. How? In this way, if Vyasa recited thirty verses without pause, would get fifteen-minutes of rest. Think of it as an elaboration of the above example. Satyavati considered such an heir to be an unworthy king, so she asked Vyasa to have niyoga with her other daughter-in-law. This satyavati is also wife of King Santhanu. 249 The Vlorship of 1\fahadeva. As is hinted in the above image, every character’s relation with every other must be calculated. Ved vyasa is Mahavishnu. In the above image, when any character is introduced, Ganesha computes the relationship between that character and every other existing character. and the dasyu (aboriginal) princess Satyavati and grew up in forests, living with hermits who taught him the Vedas (ancient sacred literature of India). Thus far we’ve only considered binary relationships—mother, father, husband, grandparent. This means that, given an O(n³) problem, Ganesha would process one hundred thousand facts in a mere second and one million facts in just 17 minutes. Similar to the growth graph above, here’s a growth graph comparing O(n³) with O(2ⁿ). Her actions (and decisions) create a generation encompassed by a greed which ultimately leads to its annihilation. Originally composed in the ancient language of Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, it is set in a legendary era thought to correspond to the period of Indian culture and history in approximately the tenth century BC. ), Though we don’t alter our cognitive commitments one by one, it’s also not true that everything we believe is up for grabs all of the time…. So we’re in very safe waters giving Ganesha this speed.). In Vyasa. He is the son Satyavati and Rishi Parashar – a fisherwoman and a wandering sage. However, certain norms seem to have been subverted in this case. What does it take for Ganesha to compute these relationships? Some other computer scientists and philosophers disagreed with his use of the term. All the second order relations are labeled with a ‘?’ for my simplicity. Start studying Mahabharata Terms. Polynomial problems (ones of the form nᶜ where c is a constant) are typically considered tractable while exponential equations (of the form cⁿ where c is a constant greater than 1) are considered intractable. So, who are the parents of Rishi Vyasa? I don’t have a graphic illustration for this but the below block shows the character combinations when there are just 6 people: Satyavati, Parashara, Vyasa, Shantanu, Ganga, and Bheeshma. In computational terms, the strategies described so far grow at the rate of O(n), O(n²), and O(n³), respectively. Due to the smell emanating from her body, she was known as Matsyagandhā ("She who smells like fish"), and helped her father, Dashraj, in his job as a ferryman and a fisherwoman. That’s the central problem of cognitive science. Her story appears in the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa and the Devi Bhagavata Purana. Satyavati invites her son Vyasa to impregnate the queens Ambika and Ambalika under the Niyoga practice. Maybe 47 is the highest arity for any relationship. Vyasa was the son of Parasara Muni and Satyavati. For brevity, I don’t show the inverse relationships such as Vyasa being Satyavati’s son. Soon, A fisherman caught the pregnant fish and cut it open to find two babies in the womb of the fish, one male and one female. The fisherman repeated his condition and told Devavrata that only Shantanu was worthy of Satyavati; he had rejected marriage proposals from even Brahmarishis like Asita. And yes, the “Vyasa” shown below is also its author. Thanks go out to Aksvij for, variously, editing this post, the cover photo, and suffering me the last month as I worked on this post. Ganesha, denied full understanding, would be forced to wait for the information. A quick look at some characters in the Mahabharata. The Sudras treated the lowest community in those days. Keeping to Ganesha’s own words to Vyasa, we’ll assume that Ganesha could write at the same pace as Vyasa could recite and suppose that it took thirty-seconds to recite a verse. As Bu Fu says, we’ve shown what’s there but we haven’t shown what isn’t. Later King Shantanu, captivated by her fragrance and beauty, fell in love with Satyavati. Therefore to continue the lineage of kurus, their queens Ambika and Ambalika had children with Vyasa who was Satyavatis son from her previous relationship with sage Parashar. SATYAVATI AND HER SON Ved Vyas. For instance, when Chitrangada is born Ganesha understands that he is Shantanu’s son and Bheeshma’s half-brother. There are many legends on the birth and life of Ved Vyas. Note further that the above graph’s X-axis is the number of facts Vyasa gives Ganesha. Satyavati. It is said that he was the expansion of the God Vishnu, who came in Dwaparayuga to make all the Vedic knowledge from oral tradition available in written form. The female of the species must be deadlier than the male. It’s accurate but light on details. In the very first section, we have Gordon Moore, the after whom it’s named, saying “I see Moore’s law dying here in the next decade or so.”. At these words, Matsyagandha was transformed (by the powers of the sage) into Yojanagandha ("she whose fragrance can be smelled from across a yojana"). The fisherman presented the children to the king, who kept the male child. For the title for the divider of Vedas, see Vyasa (title). 2.1. So sage Vyasa was called, Satyavati’s son from a relationship before her marriage to King Shantanu, and thus not directly from the same family, at least not the paternal side. On this advice, Satyavati retired to forest where she left her body: Acquiescing in the words of Vyasa, Satyavati entered the inner apartments and addressed her daughter-in-law, saying, 'O Ambika, I hear that in consequence of the deeds of your grandsons, this Bharata dynasty and its subjects will perish. According to the Mahabharata, he was the son of Satyavati , daughter of a fisherman chief and the wandering sage Parashara , who is credited with being the author of the first Purana , Vishnu Purana . 250. Mahabharat describes that when he came he was looking terrible because he was in the process of extended austerity. [1], During the fertile period of the older queen, Ambika, Satyavati invited Vyasa to Ambika's bedchamber. Kunti returned to Hastinapur with the Pandavas. Ved Vyas was the son of Sage Parashara. In the Devi Bhagavata Purana version, Vyasa initially refused Satyavati's proposal. By tractability we mean is the rate-of-growth of computational resources needed to solve the problem. The son was called Krishna ("the dark one") due to his colour, or Dvaipayana ("one born on an island") and would later become known as Vyasa – compiler of the Vedas and author of the Puranas and the Mahabharata, fulfilling Parashara's prophecy. With reference to this central line, just as King Santanu had a "premarital" son in Bhishma, so did Queen Satyavati in Vyasa. [5] Consequently, the fish became pregnant. With the introduction of every character, Ganesha would consider every other character’s relationship to the introduced character. (This is a later plot point.). Also, niyog must be performed by the husband’s brother, and in this case, Bhishma declined to participate, as he had sworn celibacy. 0 0. (Note: this is most probably a technical impossibility. Keep this image in your mind or as a handy reference because the images shown later in this article won’t be as clear. The sage also gave her a musky fragrance, which earned her names like Yojanagandha ("She whose fragrance is spread as far as a yojana") and Gandhavati ("fragrant one"). He was dark so he got his name Krishna and since he was born on an island (dwip), he was named Dvaipayana. Ganesha agreed. ⑴ is not particularly interesting. Simple, inelegant, functional. One day she was taking the sage Parasara across. son of maid and Vyasa. In our case, Ganesha does not need to understand Ø, the empty set, so given 6 characters he has to compute 2⁶-1=63 relationships. 10 years ago. Over the course of time, Kali earned the name Satyavati ("truthful"). Satyavati Devi (born 1905): Satyavati Devi (February 1905 – 26 October 2010) was an Indian freedom fighter and Gandhian. Mother of Veda Vyasa, Satyavati, later married the King Shantanu, the father of Bhishma. Where the earlier graph had 40 transitions for 10 nodes, this one below has 166 transitions for the same 10. . I probably shouldn’t even use it here.) [1] However, the Mahabharata does not include this event; it only describes Bhishma crowning Chitrangada as king under Satyavati's command. ¹. His father was Parasara Maharshi and mother Satyavati who belonged to Sudras, fishermen community. Not because his verses were complicated. Ved vyasa is Mahavishnu. Once again, we have to consider Satyavati’s unary relationships some of which are: she’s no longer childless, still a virgin (it’s complicated), and no longer smells of fish (also complicated).2.4. She remembered him and he came at once. Recall that I went until 200 in the previous graph. Story of Sage Parashara and Ved Vyasa. [1], Satyavati is known by numerous names in the Mahabharata, among them Daseyi, Gandhakali, Gandhavati, Kali, Matysyagandha, Satya, Vasavi and Yojanagandha. Unlike earlier, I don’t show the relationship graph for the 23 characters because that has a whopping 2,024 transitions. Veda Vyasa was a great Vedic scholar and a sage. He was to never claim any right to the throne, which rightfully belonged to him. Vyasa is traditionally known as author of this epic and likewise features as an important character in it. The birth of Veda Vyasa. The long and short is: in science and elsewhere, it appears that the processes by which we evaluate nondemonstrative inferences for simplicity, coherence, conservatism, and the like are both sensitive to global properties of our cognitive commitments and tractable. Recall that computing relationships upon introduction of every character went as 1+2+3+4+5+n-1. . I’ve grouped the relationship combinations that occur between all six characters. What’s the quaternary relationship between Shantanu, Parashara, Satyavati, and Vyasa? The sage then blessed her with virgo intacta. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, . Later when the enmity between the Pandavas and Kauravas started reaching alarming proportion, Vyasa took away his mother Satyavati and her daughters-in-law to the forest, to lead a life of ascetism, for they could not bear to see the events that would unfold. Well, his unary relationships are that he’s male, a sage, and wants⁴ to cross a river.2.2. 2.3. It was written by Veda Vyasa. My arguments were inspired by the arguments of twentieth century philosophical giant, Jerry Fodor (1935–2017). However, must not Ganesha also understand that no longer are Shantanu and Satyavati a childless couple? In this case, though, since the introduction of each character entails a full computation, the number of computations is the summation of the array [1, 1, 1+2, 1+2+3, 1+2+3+4, 1+2+3+4+5, … 1+2+3+…+n-1]. Bhishma presented Satyavati to Shantanu, who married her. Ganesha’s writing process would be something like below: ⒈ Listen to Vyasa recite a verse.⒉ Understand the verse.⒊ Write it down. [2][4], One day Shantanu, the Kuru king of Hastinapur, came to the forest on a hunting trip and was mesmerized by the musk-fragrance emanating from Satyavati. Thus Bhishma and Vyasa, the two giant pillars on which the epic stands, are extramarital sons on either parent's side. [1], Shantanu with Satyavati, the fisherwoman (Painting by, Meeting with Parashara and birth of Vyasa, "Of Kunti and Satyawati: Sexually Assertive Women of the Mahabharata", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satyavati&oldid=989640388, All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English, Articles containing Sanskrit-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Matsyagandha, Gandhavati and Yojanagandha, This page was last edited on 20 November 2020, at 04:16. Bhattacharya further comments on the sequence of her requests: the bodily fragrance to make the sexual act pleasant for both, the veil of mist to keep the act a secret, virginal status for her future and fame for her child – securing his fame and, after practical aspects are sorted out, "eternally feminine" boons of lifelong youth and fragrance. Krishna's son married Duryodhana's daughter. For instance, when Pandu gets married, he’s no longer a bachelor. Note that none of the graphs are actually dipping, their individual values are constantly on the rise. He’s Satyavati’s son, he’s Parashara’s son.…3.7. After the funerary rites for Pandu were done, Vyasa warned Satyavati that happiness would end in the dynasty and devastating events would occur in the future (leading to the destruction of her kin), which she would not be able to bear in her old age. According to the laws of the day, a child born to an unwed mother was taken to be a step-child of the mother's husband; by that token, Vyasa could be considered Shantanu's son and could be used to perpetuate the Kuru clan that ruled Hastinapur. A few years later, Shantanu marries Satyavati. His blindness is an allegory to his carelessness as a father. Let’s consider Vyasa’s options. The king gave the female child back to the fisherman, naming her Matsya-gandha ("She who smells like fish"). I’m reminded of the joke about the man who read and reviewed the phonebook: “It has a lot of characters but no plot.” (My sympathies if the word “phonebook” makes no sense to you.). And to serve that single issue, lest the generations fail, Both unabridged versions of the Mahabharata that I know of—P. (Arity is the number of elements in a relationship. nobody wrote another relation between krishna and duryodhana. Vyasa agrees. [1][7][8][9], The king, shocked and dejected, returned to the palace since he had already appointed his son, Devavrata, as heir apparent, which was mothered by Goddess Ganga. Regardless of how long it takes Vyasa to recite a verse, Ganesha must listen and, in any case, Vyasa doesn’t get a break when reciting.We’ll get to ⑵, understanding, in more detail later in the article. The problem writing about technology is that it keeps changing and (typically) progressing. After the birth of Bheeshma, Ganga leaves Shantanu. Looking closely at the marriage between Santanu and Satyavati, whose offspring fought the Great War, we can see an interesting symmetry. Ved vyasa mates with two daughter in laws of Satyavati. ⁵ See news articles at NotebookCheck by Matthew Conriaster (Aug 14, 2018) https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-s-new-2990WX-is-now-the-world-s-fastest-CPU-with-some-caveats.322960.0.html and ZDNet by Tuan Nguyen (Sep 14, 2011) https://www.zdnet.com/article/worlds-fastest-processor-is-an-overclocked-beast-video/. [5] Vyasa then made a counter condition to Ganesha: that Ganesha write a verse if and only if he fully understood the meaning of the verse. ¹¹ Science magazine https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6473/6#sec-21. I’ve shown an illustration below. When Vyasa approached Ambika, she got frightened due to his scary appearance and closed her eyes; hence, her son was born blind. It shows the same characters and the same edges between the characters but without getting messy like before. 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