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 ||
वैशम्पायन बोले—“कर्मपरायण जनों के लिए यह सनातन मार्ग प्रकट हुआ है। इसी तत्त्व से लोकों की सृष्टि करने वाले प्रभु को ‘अनिरुद्ध’—अर्थात् अवरोध-रहित—कहा गया है।”
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.”