# Bhagavad Gita 1.40

**Canonical reference:** `gita.1.40`  
**Speaker:** Arjuna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

कुलक्षये प्रणश्यन्ति कुलधर्माः सनातनाः।
धर्मे नष्टे कुलं कृत्स्नमधर्मोऽभिभवत्युत ॥

## IAST

kulakṣaye praṇaśyanti kuladharmāḥ sanātanāḥ
dharme naṣṭe kulaṃ kṛtsnamadharmo.abhibhavatyuta

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

who do see the evils flowing from the extinction of a family learn to refrain from that sin? On the extinction of a family

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