In the two supplied verses (Bhagavad Gītā 1.39–40), adharma denotes unrighteousness/lawlessness conceived as a force that takes hold when dharma fails. At 1.39 the destruction of the family (kulakṣaya) causes the eternal family-dharmas to perish, and once dharma is destroyed adharma "overpowers" (abhibhavati) the whole family. At 1.40 the "overpowering by adharma" (adharmābhibhava) is the stated cause of the corruption of the women of the family (kulastriyaḥ), which in turn produces varṇa-saṃkara. The term thus functions as the privative counterpart of dharma and is characterized by its capacity to overpower a social collective once dharma is lost.
Senses
The reading surface. A later ingestion attaches a locus to a settled sense, or proposes a new one (dashed) for human triage — it never rewrites settled prose.
1 · Unrighteousness/lawlessness that overpowers (abhibhavati) the entire family once its etern…settledadded v1
Unrighteousness/lawlessness that overpowers (abhibhavati) the entire family once its eternal dharmas have perished.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.39
2 · Unrighteousness whose overpowering (adharmābhibhava) corrupts the women of the family, lea…settledadded v1
Unrighteousness whose overpowering (adharmābhibhava) corrupts the women of the family, leading to varṇa-saṃkara.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.40
Attestation concordance — tier 2, every locus
Append-only. Grows by locus as texts arrive; stays one collapsed table so the senses remain the reading surface.
v1Bhagavad Gītā mūla (ch. 1) — +2 loci 2 sense(s) drafted from 2 Gītā locus/loci.
Caveats
The corpus supplied consists solely of two mūla verses of the Bhagavad Gītā (1.39–40); no commentary loci (Gauḍapāda / Śaṅkara) were supplied, so no commentary positions can be attributed.
Both senses derive from a single connected passage spoken in Arjuna's lament; the term is not attested elsewhere in the supplied evidence, so its broader doctrinal sense within the text cannot be drawn here.
The grounded glosses provided during indexing align with the attested usage and have been re-grounded to the two loci.