In the supplied attestations, varṇa-saṃkara denotes the intermixture or confusion of social classes (varṇa) presented as a calamitous consequence within Arjuna's argument against fighting in the Bhagavad Gītā. At 1.40 it is the result that "arises" (jāyate) when the women of a family are corrupted (strīṣu duṣṭāsu), the corruption itself following from the prevalence of adharma upon the destruction of the family. At 1.42 it appears in the compound varṇasaṃkara-kāraka ("producing varṇa-saṃkara"), characterizing the faults (doṣa) of the family-destroyers (kulaghna), through which the eternal duties of caste (jātidharma) and family (kuladharma) are uprooted. The term thus functions as a marker of social-dharmic collapse caused by a causal chain: destruction of the family → prevalence of adharma → corruption of women → intermixture of classes → ruin of caste and family duties. Both attestations are mūla (root-text) verses; no commentary loci are supplied.
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 arising (jāyate) of intermixture/confusion of social classes as a consequence of the c…settledadded v1
The arising (jāyate) of intermixture/confusion of social classes as a consequence of the corruption of family women, itself following from the prevalence of adharma.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.40
2 · Intermixture/confusion of social classes as the effect produced by the faults of the famil…settledadded v1
Intermixture/confusion of social classes as the effect produced by the faults of the family-destroyers (in the compound varṇasaṃkara-kāraka), whereby the eternal duties of caste and family are uprooted.
smṛti (epic-philosophical)
bhagavadgita:1.42
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; both occur within Arjuna's pre-battle argument (Chapter 1) and present varṇa-saṃkara as a feared consequence, not as authorial doctrine. The framing should not be read as the text's own settled position on the basis of these loci alone.
No commentary loci (Gauḍapāda or Śaṅkara) were supplied; therefore no commentarial positions can be attributed.
At 1.40 the term stands alone as varṇa-saṃkaraḥ; at 1.42 it appears only within the compound varṇasaṃkara-kāraka. The two senses are stratum-identical (both mūla) and differ only by syntactic role, not by tradition.
The causal premises (corruption of women, destruction of family) are drawn from the same loci and reflect the verses' own stated reasoning, not external sociological commentary.