In every Kalpa Puranas are written and the author who writes the Puranas after careful analysis of the Vedas is known as Vyasa. The name of Vyasa in the current Kalpa is Dwaipayan and the name of Vyasa in the next Kalpa will be Ashwathama. Puranas in all the Kalpas are written during the Dwapara Yuga and the purpose is to spread spiritual knowledge of the Vedas in the Kali Yuga. It is impossible for men and women in Kali Yuga to follow Vedic Austerities and thus Puranas are the means to realize the knowledge of the Vedas.

Following are the name of the Vysas in each Kalpa, so far there have been 27 Vyasas and after Sage Dwaipayan there will be 26 more Vyasas including Ashwathama

1. Brahma was the first Vyasa of the first Dwapara Yuga and divided the Vedas before writing the Puranas
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3. In the second Dwapara the Vyasa’s role was assumed by Prajapati
4. Sakra or Ushana or Shukracharya was the third Vyasa
5. Sage Brihaspati was the Vyasa of the fourth Dwapara Yuga
6. Surya (The Sun God) himself took the role of Vyasa in the fifth Dwapara
7. Yama was the sixth Vyasa
8. Lord Indra became the Vyasa of the seventh Dwapara
9. Sage Vasistha was the eighth Vyasa
10. Rishi Saraswat was the ninth Vyasa
11. Tridhama was the tenth Vyasa
12. Trivrisa became the eleventh Vyasa
13. The great seer Bharadwaj assumed the role of the twelfth Vyasa
14. Antariksha was the thirteenth Vyasa
15. Dharma was the fourteenth Vyasa
16. Evaruni was the Vyasa of the fifteenth Dwapara Yuga
17. In the sixteenth Dwapara Dhananjaya was the Vyasa
18. Medhatithi was the seventeenth Vyasa
19. Vrati was the eighteenth Vyasa
20. The foremost of sages, Atri was the nineteenth Vyasa
21. Atri was followed by Rishi Gautama who became the Vyasa of the twentieth Dwapara
22. Uttama the great worshipper of Hari became the twenty-first Vyasa
23. Vajasrava Vena was the twenty second Vyasa
24. Soma assumed the role of the twenty third Vyasa
25. Trinavindu was the twenty fourth Vyasa
26. Sage Bhargava was the twenty fifth Vyasa
27. Sakti was the Vyasa of the twenty sixth Dwapara Yuga
28. Jatukarnya was the twenty seventh Vyasa
29. Krishna Dwaipayan became and 28th Vyasa and the most recent of all the Vyasas