BG - 1.42

सङ्करो नरकायैव कुलघ्नानां कुलस्य च। पतन्ति पितरो ह्येषां लुप्तपिण्डोदकक्रियाः।।1.42।।

saṅkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāṁ kulasya cha patanti pitaro hy eṣhāṁ lupta-piṇḍodaka-kriyāḥ

• saṅkaraḥ - unwanted children
• narakāya - hellish
• eva - indeed
• kula-ghnānām - for those who destroy the family
• kulasya - of the family
• cha - also
• patanti - fall
• pitaraḥ - ancestors
• hi - verily
• eṣhām - their
• lupta - deprived of
• piṇḍodaka-kriyāḥ - performances of sacrificial offerings

Translation

Confusion of castes leads to hell for the slayers of the family, for their forebears fall, deprived of the offerings of rice-balls and libations of water.

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