Parasara was a great sage and was the grand son of Vashishta, son of Bhramma. Once Parasara wanted to cross the river Ganga. So he approached the head of the fishermen who asked his daughter Satyavati to take the great sage across the river in her boat.The sage Parasara was attracted by the beauty and charm of this beautiful girl Satyavati and asked her to marry him. Satyavati refused his advances and proposal on the ground that she was a virgin and could not marry the sage and loose her chastity.
But the sage was insistent and told her that after his courtship with her she would deliver the most intelligent and holy child who would do wonders in the history of Bharat and once she delivers the child she would again become a virgin because of his boon. He also made her body smell like a beautiful flower with an attractive fragrance.
So Satyavati agreed to have him as husband in the old Indian style of "Gandharva vivaaham" in which they agree to have courtship with an understanding. After this courtship Parasara had left and in due course Satyavati delivered a male child and immediately after the birth Parasara came and took the child with him. Parasura brought up the child, taught him all the Vedas and upanishads and made him a great sage like himself.
Vyasa wrote the epic Mahabharata and Bhagavatham and many other puranas.
Satyavati had again attained her virginity and had now a fragrance around her always which attracted king Shantanu of Hastinapura.
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