Verse 1.43
दोषैरेतैः कुलघ्नानां वर्णसङ्करकारकैः ।
उत्साद्यन्ते जातिधर्माः कुलधर्माश्च शाश्वताः ॥
Transliteration
doṣairetaiḥ kulaghnānāṃ varṇasaṅkarakārakaiḥ |
utsādyante jātidharmāḥ kuladharmāśca śāśvatāḥ ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
By these evil deeds of the destroyers of the family, which cause confusion of castes, the eternal religious rites of the caste and the family are destroyed.
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Through these wrongs of those who destroy families and cause the mixing of orders, the age-old duties of birth and the duties of family are uprooted.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
Word by word
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Arjuna sums up the social argument. The faults of those who destroy families bring about the mixing of orders, and through it both jātidharma, the duties tied to one's community by birth, and kuladharma, the duties of the family, are uprooted. The verse repeats and gathers the earlier points into one statement. For Arjuna, the war threatens the entire fabric of inherited obligation. Whatever one thinks of the social order he describes, his concern is for stability and continuity, which he sees as the foundation of a righteous life.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08