कस्मिन् युगे प्रवृत्तेयं स्थाने वा केन हेतुना । कुत: सञ्चोदित: कृष्ण: कृतवान् संहितां मुनि: ॥ ३ ॥
kasmin yuge pravrtteyam sthane va kena hetuna kutah sancoditah krsnah krtavan samhitam munih
- kasmin
- in which
- yuge
- period
- pravrtta
- was begun
- iyam
- this
- sthane
- in the place
- va
- or
- kena
- on what
- hetuna
- ground
- kutah
- wherefrom
- sancoditah
- inspired by
- krsnah
- Krsna-dvaipayana Vyasa
- krtavan
- compiled
- samhitam
- Vedic literature
- munih
- the learned.
In what period and at what place was this first begun, and why was this taken up? From where did Krsna-dvaipayana Vyasa, the great sage, get the inspiration to compile this literature?