Shloka 71

Atithi-prāpti and the Brāhmaṇa’s Deliberation on Triadic Dharma (अतिथिप्राप्तिः धर्मत्रयविचारश्च)

Devanagari script

अयं क्रियावतां पन्था व्यक्ती भूत: सनातन: । अनिरुद्ध इति प्रोक्तो लोकसर्गकर: प्रभु: ७१ ।। “यह कर्मपरायण पुरुषोंके लिये सनातन मार्ग प्रकट हुआ है। इस पद्धतिसे लोकोंकी सृष्टि करनेवाले प्रभावशाली पुरुषको अनिरुद्ध कहा गया है

Transliteration

ayaṁ kriyavatāṁ panthā vyaktī bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ | aniruddha iti prokto lokasargakaraḥ prabhuḥ || 71 ||

Translation

வைசம்பாயனர் கூறினார்—“நல்ல செயலில் ஈடுபடுவோருக்காக இந்தச் சனாதனப் பாதை வெளிப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதன் வழியே உலகங்களைப் படைக்கும் பரமாதிபதி ‘அநிருத்தன்’—தடையற்றவன்—என்று அழைக்கப்படுகிறான்.”

Word by Word

अयम्this

क्रियावताम्of the active/doers (those engaged in action)

पन्थाःpath, way

व्यक्तीभूतःmade manifest, become explicit

सनातनःeternal, perennial

अनिरुद्धःAniruddha (name/title)

इतिthus, as

प्रोक्तःis called/said

लोकसर्गकरःmaker of the creation of worlds

प्रभुःlord, powerful one

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Aniruddha

loka (worlds)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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.”