Ganesh writing down the Mahabharata; a modern silk painting

Source: http://www.mahakali.com/ls1/ls1.html
(downloaded June 2001)

Ganesh taking dictation from Vyasa, in a modern Orissan pata-chitra painting

Source: http://www.exoticindia.com/product/PC75/
(downloaded Sept. 2003)

The frame story for the epic is its telling on the occasion of a huge "snake-sacrifice" by the king Janamejaya (bazaar art, c.1920's)

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006