The name of a sage who was born on a small island (dvīpa) in the Ganges River and who became known as Vyāsa, the one who received and compiled the Vedas and the Purāṇas from Brahmā. According to Aśvaghoṣa’s Vajrasūcī (v. 23), he was born from a woman of the fishermen caste (Kaivarta).

A great ṛṣi. Another name for the ṛṣi Vyāsa, one of the original compilers of the Vedas.