And O Ganardana! we have heard that men whose family-rites are subverted, must necessarily live in hell.

Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain -- Shankara's commentary offers no independent gloss for this narrative verse; text is the literal translation.

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• of those whose family/clan duties (dharmas) have been destroyed or lost
• of men, of people (genitive plural)
• O Janardana (epithet of Krishna, 'agitator of men')
• in hell (locative singular)
• unfixed, indefinite, of unspecified duration
• dwelling, residence
• becomes, is, occurs
• thus (marks the preceding as reported/quoted content)
• we have heard (by tradition); we have learned