Vaisampayana | |
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![]() Vaishampayana listens as Shaunaka recites the Mahabharata. | |
Affiliation | Rishi |
Texts | Mahabharata, Harivamsa |
Vaishampayana (Sanskrit: वैशंपायन, IAST: Vaiśaṃpāyana) is the traditional narrator of the Mahabharata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India.[1]