जिज्ञासितं सुसम्पन्नमपि ते महदद्भुतम् । कृतवान् भारतं यस्त्वं सर्वार्थपरिबृंहितम् ॥ ३ ॥

jijñÄsitaá¹ susampannam
api te mahad-adbhutam
ká¹›tavÄn bhÄrataá¹ yas tvaá¹
sarvÄrtha-paribá¹›á¹hitam

 jijñÄsitam - fully inquired; susampannam - well versed; api - in spite of; te - your; mahat-adbhutam - great and wonderful; ká¹›tavÄn - prepared; bhÄratam - the MahÄbhÄrata; yaḥ tvam - what you have done; sarva-artha - including all sequences; paribá¹›á¹hitam - elaborately explained.


Text

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 MahÄbhÄrata, which is full of all kinds of Vedic sequences elaborately explained.

Purport

The despondency of VyÄsadeva 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 MahÄbhÄrata is compiled with full explanation of the Vedas.