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sponded to. The legend goes that Vedavyasa, the legendary author
of Mahabharata requested Brahma to provide him with a writer
counter-readings.
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Vyasa was 'author' in another sense too. He has been
during those
brief droughts that even Vyasa's inspiration might not
have been free from. This reminds me of some debates that took
K. Satchidanandan / 7
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raphies that were dictated by the subjects to others, like that oí the
tribal leader C.K. Janu. It was suspected that the writer had
romanticised the story, used his own tone and idiom, instead of the
hope his trunk did not erase what his hand wrote.
JL^h
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