Arjuna
उत्सन्नकुलधर्माणां मनुष्याणां जनार्दन । नरकेऽनियतं वासो भवतीत्यनुशुश्रुम ॥
utsannakuladharmāṇāṃ manuṣyāṇāṃ janārdana | narake'niyataṃ vāso bhavatītyanuśuśruma ||
O Janardana, people whose family dharma has been destroyed must dwell in hell for an indefinite time — so we have heard.
Explanation Arjuna continues his argument against fighting. He says that when family duties and customs (kula-dharma) are destroyed, the people involved are said to dwell in hell (naraka) for an indefinite period, a teaching he knows only by hearing it passed down (anuśuśruma). The word aniyatam is usually read as 'for an unspecified, long time', though some take it as 'inevitably'.
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About the Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita, in Sanskrit श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता (Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā ), “the song of the Lord”, is a dialogue of 18 chapters and 700 verses from the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, as the war is about to begin, the warrior Arjuna loses heart at the thought of fighting his own kin, and his charioteer Krishna answers him: on duty, on acting without attachment to the results, on knowledge, meditation and devotion. Sanjaya recounts the conversation to the blind king Dhritarashtra. The name is also written Bhagwad Gita, Bhagvad Gita, Bhagavat Gita or Bhagavad Geeta; with the honorific, Shrimad Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavad Gita or Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta; and often simply the Gita or Geeta.
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