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At the twelve-years’ sacrifice of the sage Saunaka, surnamed Kulapati, the assembled Munis—the hermits of rigid vows—sit at their ease within the sacrificial ground, the holy fire alive before them. Ugrasrava, the son of Lomaharshana, surnamed Sauti, well-versed in the Puranas, bends with humility and approaches the great sages. Longing to hear his wonderful narrations, the ascetics ask whence he has come. Sauti has heard the sacred stories composed in the Mahabharata by the great Rishi Krishna-Dwaipayana, recited by Vaisampayana at the Snake-sacrifice of the high-souled King Janamejaya. He asks what he shall repeat—and so the great recitation of the Bharata is set before the gathered sages.
Ugrasrava Sauti — son of Lomaharshana, the young Purana-reciter who brings
the Mahabharata to the forest of Naimisha.
Saunaka Kulapati — the aged ascetic elder who hosts the great sacrifice and leads the
assembly of the Munis.