In this section, Ved Vyas ( " V . V . " ), the narrator, recounts his personal history; the seduction of Satyavati by the Brahmin Parashar and his own birth; the origin of Ganga Datta from the union of Shantanu and the now absent Maharanee ( whom he met on the banks of the Brahm's Apsara Agency to transcribe Ved Vyas's memoir, which V . V . describes as the " Song of Modern India ."
