{
  "book_title": "Bhagavad-gītā As It Is",
  "chapter": 11,
  "verse": 44,
  "reference": "Bg 11.44",
  "devanagari": "तस्मात्प्रणम्य प्रणिधाय कायं प्रसादये त्वामहमीशमीड्यम्\nपितेव पुत्रस्य सखेव सख्युः प्रियः प्रियायार्हसि देव सोढुम्",
  "transliteration": "tasmāt praṇamya praṇidhāya kāyaṁ\nprasādaye tvām aham īśam īḍyam\npiteva putrasya sakheva sakhyuḥ\npriyaḥ priyāyārhasi deva soḍhum",
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tasmāt",
      "meanings": [
        "therefore"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "praṇamya",
      "meanings": [
        "after offering obeisances"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "praṇidhāya",
      "meanings": [
        "laying down"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "kāyam",
      "meanings": [
        "body"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "prasādaye",
      "meanings": [
        "to beg mercy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "tvām",
      "meanings": [
        "unto you"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "aham",
      "meanings": [
        "I"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "īśam",
      "meanings": [
        "unto the Supreme Lord"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "īḍyam",
      "meanings": [
        "who is worshipable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "pitā iva",
      "meanings": [
        "like a father"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "putrasya",
      "meanings": [
        "of a son"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "sakhā iva",
      "meanings": [
        "like a friend"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "sakhyuḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "of a friend"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "priyaḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "lover"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "priyāyāḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "of the dearmost"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "arhasi",
      "meanings": [
        "You should"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "deva",
      "meanings": [
        "my Lord"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "soḍhum",
      "meanings": [
        "tolerate."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translation": "<b>You are the Supreme Lord, to be worshiped by every living being. Thus I fall down to offer You my respects and ask Your mercy. Please tolerate the wrongs that I may have done to You and bear with me as a father with his son, or a friend with his friend, or a lover with his beloved.</b>",
  "purport": [
    "Kṛṣṇa's devotees relate to Kṛṣṇa in various relationships; one might treat Kṛṣṇa as a son, one might treat Kṛṣṇa as a husband, as a friend, as a master, etc. Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna are related in friendship. As the father tolerates, or the husband or master tolerates, so Kṛṣṇa tolerates."
  ]
}