In the supplied attestations (all from the mūla of the Bhagavad Gītā, 1.39–1.43, spoken by Arjuna), kuladharma denotes the inherited duties/observances of a family or lineage (kula). These are characterized as enduring — sanātana (1.39) and śāśvata (1.42). The verses thematize their loss: they perish (praṇaśyanti) when the family is destroyed (1.39), are abolished (utsādyante) by the faults of family-destroyers that produce caste-admixture (1.42), and their ruin (utsanna) consigns the affected people to hell (1.43). The term thus functions as a normative-rule concept whose maintenance is tied to family continuity and whose collapse entails moral and social disorder (adharma, varṇasaṃkara).
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 eternal/enduring duties or observances of a family (kula), here said to perish when th…settledadded v1
The eternal/enduring duties or observances of a family (kula), here said to perish when the family is destroyed and whose loss lets adharma prevail over the whole family.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.39
2 · The everlasting (śāśvata) family duties, paired with jātidharmas (duties of caste/birth-gr…settledadded v1
The everlasting (śāśvata) family duties, paired with jātidharmas (duties of caste/birth-group), which are abolished by the faults of family-destroyers that cause caste-admixture (varṇasaṃkara).
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.42
3 · Hereditary family duties whose ruin (utsanna) characterizes those people who, on that acco…settledadded v1
Hereditary family duties whose ruin (utsanna) characterizes those people who, on that account, are said to dwell fixed in hell.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.43
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) — +3 loci 3 sense(s) drafted from 3 Gītā locus/loci.
Caveats
All three attestations are from the Bhagavad Gītā mūla only; no commentarial loci (e.g., Gauḍapāda or Śaṅkara) were supplied, so no commentary positions can be attributed.
All loci occur within Arjuna's despondency speech (BhG 1) and present the term in the context of the feared consequences of war; the term is never defined, only used and qualified.
The corpus here is a single text/tradition; senses reflect that scope and should not be generalized beyond it.
The pairing with jātidharma (1.42) and the qualifiers sanātana/śāśvata are part of the attested usage and grounded above; the distinction between kuladharma and jātidharma is not elaborated in the supplied evidence.