Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

by Peggy Mohan

Deshpande gives the example of Vyāsa, a scribe who wrote down the Vedas (Veda Vyāsa) whose ‘mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and perhaps great-great-grandmother were all at least non-Brāhmaṇas, if not non-Āryan. But he was a Brāhmaṇa.’