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

وَیشَمپایَن نے کہا—“اہلِ عمل کے لیے یہ ازلی راہ ظاہر کی گئی ہے۔ اسی اصول کے ذریعے جہانوں کی آفرینش کرنے والے مقتدر رب کو ‘اَنِرُدھ’—یعنی بے رکاوٹ—کہا جاتا ہے۔”

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.”