BG 1.43

उत्सन्नकुलधर्माणां मनुष्याणां जनार्दन। नरके नियतं वासो भवतीत्यनुशुश्रुम॥

utsanna-kula-dharmāṇāṃ manuṣyāṇāṃ janārdana / narake niyataṃ vāso bhavatīty anuśuśruma

"Tradition says this is a path to hell — and we are about to walk it knowingly."

All public-domain translations

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

Swami Swarupananda, Srimad Bhagavad Gita (1909)

[4]
We have heard, O Janardana, that dwelling in hell is inevitable for those men in whose families the religious rites have been destroyed.

William Quan Judge, The Bhagavad Gita (1890)

[6]
O Janardana, we have heard that those men must inevitably dwell in hell whose family customs are abolished.

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

[9]
We have heard that the men of those families whose family customs are destroyed must necessarily dwell in hell.