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 dit : «Voici la voie éternelle, rendue manifeste pour ceux qui se vouent à l’action juste. Par ce principe, le Seigneur souverain qui fait naître la création des mondes est nommé “Aniruddha” — l’Inarrêtable, l’Inobstrué.»
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.”