{
  "book_title": "Bhagavad-gītā As It Is",
  "chapter": 18,
  "verse": 32,
  "reference": "Bg 18.32",
  "devanagari": "अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता\nसर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी",
  "transliteration": "adharmaṁ dharmam iti yā\nmanyate tamasāvṛtā\nsarvārthān viparītāṁś ca\nbuddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī",
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "adharmam",
      "meanings": [
        "irreligion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "dharmam",
      "meanings": [
        "religion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "iti",
      "meanings": [
        "thus"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "yā",
      "meanings": [
        "which"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "manyate",
      "meanings": [
        "thinks"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "tamasā",
      "meanings": [
        "by illusion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "āvṛtā",
      "meanings": [
        "covered"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "sarva-arthān",
      "meanings": [
        "all things"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "viparītān",
      "meanings": [
        "the wrong direction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "ca",
      "meanings": [
        "also"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "buddhiḥ",
      "meanings": [
        "intelligence"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "sa",
      "meanings": [
        "that"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "pārtha",
      "meanings": [
        "O son of Pṛthā"
      ]
    },
    {
      "word": "tāmasī",
      "meanings": [
        "the mode of ignorance."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translation": "<b>That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Pārtha, is in the mode of ignorance.</b>",
  "purport": []
}