Shloka 71
Atithi-prāpti and the Brāhmaṇa’s Deliberation on Triadic Dharma (अतिथिप्राप्तिः धर्मत्रयविचारश्च)
अयं क्रियावतां पन्था व्यक्ती भूत: सनातन: । अनिरुद्ध इति प्रोक्तो लोकसर्गकर: प्रभु: ७१ ।।
ayaṁ kriyavatāṁ panthā vyaktī bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ | aniruddha iti prokto lokasargakaraḥ prabhuḥ || 71 ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “This is the eternal path made manifest for those devoted to right action. By this principle, the sovereign Lord who brings forth the creation of worlds is spoken of as ‘Aniruddha’—the Unobstructed.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse affirms an eternal, authoritative path for those committed to disciplined action (kriyā/karma) and links that path to the divine principle of unobstructed sovereignty—Aniruddha—who is described as the source of cosmic creation.
Vaiśampāyana continues a doctrinal exposition in Śānti Parva, identifying a ‘manifest’ eternal path for practitioners of action and explaining a divine epithet: the world-creating Lord is called Aniruddha, “the Unobstructed.”