Verset 1.42

सङ्करो नरकायैव कुलघ्नानां कुलस्य च ।

पतन्ति पितरो ह्येषां लुप्तपिण्डोदकक्रियाः ॥

1.42

Translittération

saṅkaro narakāyaiva kulaghnānāṃ kulasya ca |

patanti pitaro hyeṣāṃ luptapiṇḍodakakriyāḥ ||

Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Traduction

Confusion of castes leads to hell the slayers of the family, for their forefathers fall, deprived of the offerings of rice-ball and water (libations).

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Mot à mot

such confusion
to hell
surely
of the family destroyers
of the family
and

fall
ancestors
indeed
their
deprived of rice and water offerings

Par Sanskrit System · Brouillon automatique · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explication

Arjuna appeals to the ancestral rites. In Vedic practice, descendants offered balls of rice and water, piṇḍa and udaka, to sustain the departed ancestors, the pitṛs. If the family line is broken and these rites stop, the ancestors were believed to lose their place and fall. So the harm of war, in Arjuna's view, reaches back to past generations as well as forward. The verse shows how deeply his reasoning is rooted in the religious life of his culture, where the living and the dead were bound by duty.