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	The [[Bhagavata Purana]] gives an account of the conflict of Sauti's father Romaharṣaṇa with [[Balarama]]. During the [[Kurukshetra War\|Kurukshetra war]], Balarama was performing pilgrimage by visiting various sacred spots. As such he came at [[Naimisha Forest]], where he saw Romaharṣaṇa narrating the [[Puranas]] to the [[Saunaka\|sages]] present there. Everyone welcomed Balarama with joined palms except Romaharṣaṇa. The angered Balarama killed Romaharṣaṇa, with a piece of ''kusa'' grass. Balarama offered to revive Romaharshana, but the sages asked, "Please see to it, O Rāma, that Your power and that of Your kuśa weapon, as well as our promise (of long life, etc. to Romaharṣaṇa) and Romaharṣaṇa’s death, all remain intact." Balarama fulfilled this by letting Romaharṣaṇa’s son become the speaker of the Purāṇas, and let him be endowed with long life, strong senses, and stamina. <ref>Bhagavata Purana Skandha X Chapter 78. 22-40, Motilal Bansaridass Publishers, Book 4 pages 1745-1747</ref>		The [[Bhagavata Purana]] gives an account of the conflict of Sauti's father Romaharṣaṇa with [[Balarama]]. During the [[Kurukshetra War\|Kurukshetra war]], Balarama was performing pilgrimage by visiting various sacred spots. As such he came at [[Naimisha Forest]], where he saw Romaharṣaṇa narrating the [[Puranas]] to the [[Saunaka\|sages]] present there. Everyone welcomed Balarama with joined palms except Romaharṣaṇa. The angered Balarama killed Romaharṣaṇa, with a piece of ''kusa'' grass. Balarama offered to revive Romaharshana, but the sages asked, "Please see to it, O Rāma, that Your power and that of Your kuśa weapon, as well as our promise (of long life, etc. to Romaharṣaṇa) and Romaharṣaṇa’s death, all remain intact." Balarama fulfilled this by letting Romaharṣaṇa’s son become the speaker of the Purāṇas, and let him be endowed with long life, strong senses, and stamina.<ref>Bhagavata Purana Skandha X Chapter 78. 22-40, Motilal Bansaridass Publishers, Book 4 pages 1745-1747</ref>

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[[File:Ugrashravas_narrating_Mahābhārata_before_the_sages_gathered_in_Naimisha_Forest.jpg|thumb|Ugrashravas narrating Mahābhārata before the sages gathered in [[Naimisha Forest]].]]

'''Ugrashravas Sauti''' ([[Sanskrit]]: उग्रश्रवस् सौती, also '''Ugraśravas''', '''Sauti''', '''Sūta''', '''Śri Sūta''', '''Suta Goswami''') was the narrator of [[Mahābhārata]]<ref name="Winterlitz">{{cite book|last=Winternitz|first=Moriz|author2=V. Srinivasa Sarma |title=A History of Indian Literature, Volume 1|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|date=1996|pages=303|isbn=978-81-208-0264-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYPOVdzZ2UIC&pg=RA1-PA303}}</ref> and several [[Puranas]] including [[Shiva Purana]],<ref>[https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/shiva-purana-english/d/doc225535.html The Shiva Purana by J. L. Shastri | 1970]</ref> [[Bhagavata Purana]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Hiltebeitel|first=Alf|author-link=Alf Hiltebeitel|title=Rethinking the Mahābhārata: a reader's guide to the education of the dharma king|publisher=University of Chicago Press|page=282|date=2001|isbn=978-0-226-34054-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CMvUBees4vMC&pg=PA282}}</ref><ref name="Hudson">{{cite book|last=Hudson|first=D. Dennis|author2=Margaret H. Case |title=The body of God: an emperor's palace for Krishna in eighth-century Kanchipuram|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=2008|pages=609|isbn=978-0-19-536922-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IMCxbOezDi4C&pg=PA609}}</ref> [[Harivamsa]],<ref name="Matchett">{{cite book|last=Matchett|first=Freda|title=Krishna, Lord or Avatara?: the relationship between Krishna and Vishnu|page=36|publisher=Routledge|date=2001|isbn=978-0-7007-1281-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1oqTYiPeAxMC&pg=PA36}}</ref> [[Brahmavaivarta Purana]], and [[Padma Purana]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JRfuJFRV_O8C&pg=PA513 Winterlitz, p. 513].</ref> with the narrations typically taking place before the sages gathered in [[Naimisha Forest]]. He was the son of Lomaharshana (or Romaharshana),<ref name="Matchett" /> and a disciple of [[Vyasa]], the author of Mahābhārata. Ugrasrava was a Sutā by caste, as he was born of a Kshatriya father and Brahmin mother.<ref>Bhagavata Purana Skandha X Chapter 79, Verse 24</ref> Ugrasrava was a bard of Puranic literature.<ref name="Jarow">{{cite book|last=Jarow|first=Rick|title=Tales for the dying: the death narrative of the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa|publisher=SUNY Press|date=2003|pages=154|isbn=978-0-7914-5609-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8URUz0jhH3gC&pg=PA154}}</ref>

The entire Mahābhārata epic was structured as a dialogue between Ugrasrava Sauti (the narrator) and sage [[Saunaka]] (the narratee). The narration (''Bharata'') of the history of Bharata kings by sage [[Vaisampayana]] to [[Kuru Kingdom|Kuru]] king [[Janamejaya II|Janamejaya]] was embedded within this narration of Ugrasrava Sauti. Vaisampayana's narration (''Jaya'') in turn contains the narration of [[Kurukshetra War]] by [[Sanjaya]], to [[Kuru Kingdom|Kuru]] king [[Dhritarashtra]]. Thus [[Mahābhārata]] has as a [[Story within a story]] structure.
[[File:Sauti recites the slokas of the Mahabharata.jpg |thumb|Sauti recites the slokas of the Mahabharata]]
[[Kisari Mohan Ganguli]]'s English translation of the Mahābhārata begins by introducing Ugrasrava thus:
<blockquote>"Ugrasrava, the son of Lomaharshana, surnamed Sauti, well-versed in the [[Puranas]], bending with humility, one day approached the great sages of rigid vows, sitting at their ease, who had attended the twelve year sacrifice of [[Saunaka]], surnamed Kulapati, in the forest of [[Naimisha Forest|Naimisha]]." (Mahabharata 1:1)<ref>{{cite book|last=Ganguli|first=Kisari Mohan|title=The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa|publisher=Calcutta : Bharata press|date=1884|url=https://archive.org/stream/mahabharataofkri01royp#page/n33/mode/2up}}</ref></blockquote>

== Conflict with Balarama ==

The [[Bhagavata Purana]] gives an account of the conflict of Sauti's father Romaharṣaṇa with [[Balarama]]. During the [[Kurukshetra War|Kurukshetra war]], Balarama was performing pilgrimage by visiting various sacred spots. As such he came at [[Naimisha Forest]], where he saw Romaharṣaṇa narrating the [[Puranas]] to the [[Saunaka|sages]] present there. Everyone welcomed Balarama with joined palms except Romaharṣaṇa. The angered Balarama killed Romaharṣaṇa, with a piece of ''kusa'' grass. Balarama offered to revive Romaharshana, but the sages asked, "Please see to it, O Rāma, that Your power and that of Your kuśa weapon, as well as our promise (of long life, etc. to Romaharṣaṇa) and Romaharṣaṇa’s death, all remain intact." Balarama fulfilled this by letting Romaharṣaṇa’s son become the speaker of the Purāṇas, and let him be endowed with long life, strong senses, and stamina. <ref>Bhagavata Purana Skandha X Chapter 78. 22-40, Motilal Bansaridass Publishers, Book 4 pages 1745-1747</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090803170244/http://ancientindians.wordpress.com/ugrasrava/ Ugrasrava]

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