What is the relation of Vedvyasji with Parashar Muni and King Shantanu?

From Ankur Goyal

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Question from Ankur Goel Prabhu.
What is the relationship of Vedvyas with Parashara Muni and King Shantanu? Yes. Actually Vedvyas is the son of Parashara Muni through Satyavati. Satyavati was a fisherwoman and her father wanted her to gain piety by doing selfless service to pilgrims.
So whenever any pilgrims would have to go across a river, she would act as a boatswoman for them. So when Parashara Muni was going across the river, at that time, he saw that by the arrangement of the Lord, at that particular time, a very powerful soul was going to be born into the world. And so he united with Satyavati by her consent, explaining to her the extraordinary nature of the situation and here he assured her that her virginity would be preserved and also that because she was a fisherwoman, she would have some fishy smell from her body.
Rather that fishy smell would go away and an attractive aromatic fragrance would come from her body. So she consented and Vedvyas was born and then Parashara Muni left and Satyavati also returned. Parashara Muni immediately grew up and, sorry, they grew up and went on to do his spiritual activities and later on because of the fragrance that is emanating from the body of Satyavati, Shantanu was attracted to her and then Shantanu came and married her and that’s how Vedvyas, in essence, is related to them also.
Vedvyas, that’s why he acted as the caretaker for the successful generations of King Shantanu. So after Chitravirya and Chitrangada who were the sons of Shantanu and after that there were Dhritarashtra and Pandu and Vidura and after that Pandavas and Kauravas. So Vedvyas, in a sense, he is related with the Shantanu dynasty through his being the son of Satyavati.