जिज्ञासितं सुसम्पन्नमपि ते महदद्भुतम् ।
कृतवान्भारतं यस्त्वं सर्वार्थपरिबृंहितम् ॥३॥
Text
jijñāsitaṁ susampannam
api te mahad-adbhutam
kṛtavān bhārataṁ yas tvaṁ
sarvārtha-paribṛṁhitam
Synonyms
jijñāsitam—fully inquired; susampannam—well versed; api—in spite of; te—your; mahat-adbhutam—great and wonderful; kṛtavān—prepared; bharatam—the Mahābhārata; yah tvam—what you have done; sarva-artha—including all sequences; paribṛṁhitam—elaborately explained. ¶
Translation
Your inquiries were full and your studies were also well fulfilled, and there is no doubt that you have prepared a great and wonderful work, the Mahābhārata, which is full of all kinds of Vedic sequences elaborately explained. ¶
Purport
The despondency of Vyāsadeva was certainly not due to his lack of sufficient knowledge because as a student he had fully inquired about the Vedic literatures, as a result of which the Mahābhārata is compiled with full explanation of the Vedas. ¶