jijñāsitaṁ susampannam
api te mahad-adbhutam
kṛtavān bhārataṁ yas tvaṁ
sarvārtha-paribṛṁhitam
jijñāsitam - fully inquired; susampannam - well versed; api - in spite of; te - your; mahat-adbhutam - great and wonderful; kṛtavān - prepared; bhāratam - the Mahābhārata; yaḥ tvam - what you have done; sarva-artha - including all sequences; paribṛṁhitam - elaborately explained.
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.