 Satyavati ( Sanskrit : सत ् <unk> ) ( also spelled Satyawati ) , or <unk> ( Indonesian ) was the queen of the Kuru king Shantanu of Hastinapur and the great @-@ grandmother of the Pandava and Kaurava princes ( principal characters of the Hindu epic Mahabharata ) . She is also the mother of the seer Vyasa , author of the epic . Her story appears in the Mahabharata , the Harivamsa and the Devi Bhagavata Purana . 
