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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.5.3
sarvārtha-paribrimhitam
SYNONYMS
jijñāsitam — fully inquired; susampannam — well versed; api — in spite of; te — your; mahat-adbhutam — great and wonderful; kritavān — prepared; bhāratam — the Mahābhārata; yah tvam — what you have done; sarva-artha — including all sequences; paribrimhitam — 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.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness