The volume presents a deep critical study of the Sanskrit text of Samudramanthana of the Mahabharata Adi Parvan. He provides the text in the original Sanskrit along with its Roman transliteration and translation in English and with detailed notes that examine the meanings of different words and concepts with various references. The introduction provides insights on the incident of the samudramanthana or churning of the ocean for nectar and examines what some of the Puranas say with reference to the incident. An erudite study, the work also attempts to explore the secret of the numbers associated with the incident of samudramanthana.