Vysa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahbhrata and Vysa Redux examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. The book also studies elements in the poem which have been received by the late Bronze Age poets who composed the figure of Vysa elements that reflect kinship polity and modes of mnemonic inspiration. Three paired concepts function within the poems narrative proces