In the two supplied attestations (both from the mūla of the Bhagavad Gītā, 1.39 and 1.41), kula denotes the family or clan as a social and ritual unit. It is the bearer of the "eternal family-dharmas" (kuladharmāḥ sanātanāḥ) whose loss accompanies the destruction of the kula (kulakṣaya); the "whole family" (kulaṃ kṛtsnam) is what adharma overpowers once dharma has perished (1.39). In 1.41 kula is framed ritually: the destroyers of the family (kulaghnānāṃ kulasya ca) are bound for hell, and the ancestors (pitaraḥ) of the lineage fall when the offerings of rice-ball and water (piṇḍodaka) are cut off. The corpus thus presents kula as simultaneously a kinship collective and the carrier of inherited dharma and ancestral ritual obligation.
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 · The family/clan as a whole social unit (kulaṃ kṛtsnam) — the collective that is destroyed …settledadded v1
The family/clan as a whole social unit (kulaṃ kṛtsnam) — the collective that is destroyed (kulakṣaya) and, once its dharma is lost, overpowered by adharma.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.39
2 · The family/lineage as a ritual continuum — that whose destroyers go to hell and whose ance…settledadded v1
The family/lineage as a ritual continuum — that whose destroyers go to hell and whose ancestors (pitaraḥ) fall when the offerings of piṇḍa and water are severed.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.41
3 · The lineage as bearer of inherited 'eternal family-dharmas' (kuladharmāḥ sanātanāḥ), which…settledadded v1
The lineage as bearer of inherited 'eternal family-dharmas' (kuladharmāḥ sanātanāḥ), which perish at the destruction of the kula.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.39
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.
saṃkaro narakāyaiva kulaghnānāṃ kulasya ca | patanti pitaro hy eṣāṃ luptapiṇḍodakakriyāḥ ||41||
Editions & provenance
v1Bhagavad Gītā mūla (ch. 1) — +2 loci 3 sense(s) drafted from 2 Gītā locus/loci.
Caveats
The corpus supplied here is a single tradition and a single stratum: both attestations are from the mūla (root text) of the Bhagavad Gītā; no commentary loci (Gauḍapāda / Śaṅkara) were supplied, so no commentary positions can be attributed.
Only two loci are available; the senses given reflect their narrow usage within Arjuna's argument about the consequences of kulakṣaya and provide no wider semantic range.
The grounded glosses supplied at indexing were used only as leads; all senses above are re-grounded in the wording of 1.39 and 1.41.