BG 1.41

संकरो नरकायैव कुलघ्नानां कुलस्य च। पतन्ति पितरो ह्येषां लुप्तपिण्डोदकक्रियाः॥

saṃkaro narakāyaiva kula-ghnānāṃ kulasya ca / patanti pitaro hy eṣāṃ lupta-piṇḍodaka-kriyāḥ

"The dead depend on the living — break the chain of care and the ancestors fall."

All public-domain translations

3 translations · all pre-1928 or released to public domain · sources

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
Confusion of castes leads to hell the slayers of the family and the family itself; for their ancestors fall, deprived of the offerings of rice and water.

Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)

[7]
And with the old rites lost, the pious dead Fall from their place of peace.

K.T. Telang, Sacred Books of the East Vol. 8 (1882)

[9]
Intermixture of castes leads to hell the slayers of the family as well as the family; for their ancestors fall, deprived of the offerings of food and water.