SB 2.3.13
Devanāgarī
शौनक उवाच इत्यभिव्याहृतं राजा निशम्य भरतर्षभ: । किमन्यत्पृष्टवान् भूयो वैयासकिमृषिं कविम् ॥ १३ ॥
Text
śaunaka uvāca ity abhivyāhṛtaṁ rājā niśamya bharatarṣabhaḥ kim anyat pṛṣṭavān bhūyo vaiyāsakim ṛṣiṁ kavim
Synonyms
śaunakaḥuvāca—Śaunaka said;iti—thus;abhivyāhṛtam—all that was spoken;rājā—the King;niśamya—by hearing;bharata-ṛṣabhaḥ—Mahārāja Parīkṣit;kim—what;anyat—more;pṛṣṭavān—did he inquire from him;bhūyaḥ—again;vaiyāsakim—unto the son of Vyāsadeva;ṛṣim—one who is well versed;kavim—poetic.
Translation
Śaunaka said: The son of Vyāsadeva, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, was a highly learned sage and was able to describe things in a poetic manner. What did Mahārāja Parīkṣit again inquire from him after hearing all that he had said?
Purport
A pure devotee of the Lord automatically develops all godly qualities, and some of the prominent features of those qualities are as follows: he is kind, peaceful, truthful, equable, faultless, magnanimous, mild, clean, nonpossessive, a well-wisher to all, satisfied, surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, without hankering, simple, fixed, self-controlled, a balanced eater, sane, mannerly, prideless, grave, sympathetic, friendly, poetic, expert and silent. Out of these twenty-six prominent features of a devotee, as described by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja in his Caitanya-caritāmṛta, the qualification of being poetic is especially mentioned herein in relation to Śukadeva Gosvāmī. The presentation of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam by his recitation is the highest poetic contribution. He was a self-realized learned sage. In other words, he was a poet amongst the sages.