Paramparā

In BG 4.2, the source synonym entry gives:

paramparā — by disciplic succession

Translation for context

This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost.

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