This story begins in what appears to be the middle of a scene
or the middle of another story. Vyasa is trying to find someone to write down
all of the knowledge a person could know about life on earth and heaven. It
leaves the reader to wonder, if Vyasa is writing down everything there is to
know then by default, he must know everything there is to know. If he does have
this knowledge, how did he get it? Is he a god, do the gods talk to him, is he
immortal? He must be talking to the gods since on of them has offered to be his
scribe. I am unsure what the comment about not putting the pen down means quit
yet. My guess is that Vyasa will talk about something he does not want in the
book but Ganesha will write it for everyone else to know, like jealousy or
anger. In the next part of this story speaking of Vyasa’s father, I think it is
interesting that the gods have the emotion of fear. In so many western stories
the gods are so unlike humans that they do not have emotions like fear or jealousy
like humans do. The gods also bribed King Uparichara which is also not very god
like compared to western stories. It is typical and unsurprising that the king
would not except his daughter and only his son. I have a feeling the daughter
will play a large role in this story and the king may be sorry he did not except
her. The style of writing is different from other stories we have read. There
is no dialogue in this story only narrative, also different from this story is
that the narrator is not a character, they speak as if this happened before
their time.
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