Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1, Verse 42

सङ्करो नरकायैव कुलघ्नानां कुलस्य च । पतन्ति पितरो ह्येषां लुप्तपिण्डोदकक्रियाः

saṅkaro narakāyaiva kulaghnānāṃ kulasya ca | patanti pitaro hyeṣāṃ luptapiṇḍodakakriyāḥ

Translation

Confusion of castes leads the family of these destroyers of families also to hell; for, their forefathers fall (down to hell), deprived of the offerings of piṇḍa (rice-ball) and water.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

saṅkaraḥ

confusion

narakāya

(is) for hell

eva

also

kulaghnānām

of the slayers of the family

kulasya

of the family

ca

and

patanti

fall

pitaraḥ

the ancestors

hi

verily

eṣām

of these

luptapiṇḍodakakriyāḥ

lost, of rice-balls, and of water, and, the rite, of whom, they