# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vaisampayana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:21:07.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vaisampayana"
name: "Vaisampayana"
slug: "vaisampayana"
description: "Vaishampayana is the traditional narrator of the Mahabharata, one of the two major Sanskrit epics of India.\nHe was one of Vyasa's four main disciples. His nephew and disciple Yajnavalkya was also a well-known sage."
tagline: "6th Century BCE"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Sauti_recites_the_slokas_of_the_Mahabharata.jpg/330px-Sauti_recites_the_slokas_of_the_Mahabharata.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.4284221525600835
  historical:           12.36926133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump