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Nārada's Instructions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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jijñāsitam susampannam api te mahad-adbhutam kṛtavān bhāratam yas tvam sarvārtha-paribṛmhitam
jijñāsitam—fully inquired; susampannam—well versed; api—in spite of; te—your; mahat-adbhutam—great and wonderful; kṛtavān—prepared; bhāratam—the Mahābhārata; yah tvam—what you have done; sarva-artha—including all sequences; paribṛmhitam—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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जिज्ञासितमधीतं च ब्रह्मयत्तम् सनातनम् । तथापि शोचस्यात्मानमकृतार्थ इव प्रभो ॥ ४ ॥
jijñāsitam adhītam ca brahma yat tat sanātanam tathāpi śocasy ātmānam akṛtārtha iva prabho
jijñāsitam—deliberated fully well; adhītam—the knowledge obtained; ca—and; brahma—the Absolute; yat—what; tat—that; sanātanam—eternal; tathāpi—in spite of that; śocasi—lamenting; ātmānam—unto self; akṛta-artha—undone; iva—like; prabho—my dear sir.